The field of the invention is that of safe devices for operating the
actuators of aircraft and more specifically the flight control actuators
of a helicopter. The invention consists of a safe control device for
commanding an actuator (15) movement comprising at least two independent
calculation chains (120), (130), a circuit for mixing instructions (65)
and a power stage (88), each calculation stage delivering a direction of
movement instruction and a speed of movement instruction for the
actuator, the instructions being transmitted to the circuit for mixing
instructions (65) in order to generate a primary movement command for the
actuator comprising modulated pulse trains, the power stage receiving the
primary movement command and delivering a power movement command to the
actuator (15). According to the invention, the circuit for mixing
instructions (65) compares the direction of movement instructions and the
speed of movement instructions in pairs in order to generate the primary
movement command for the actuator.