Methods and systems for displaying procedure information on an aircraft display

摘要

A method for displaying a flight path navigational procedure includes, but is not limited to, detecting with a position detecting system a current location of the aircraft, obtaining from an electronic storage device a plurality of flight path navigation procedures available for a geographic location, determining with a flight path analysis system a preferred flight path that will be taken by the aircraft, and displaying on a display unit a moving map corresponding with the current location of the aircraft and further displaying a depiction of the plurality of flight path navigation procedures on the moving map. The preferred flight path is displayed with a visual cue that visually differentiates the preferred flight path from the other flight paths of the plurality of flight path navigation procedures.

主权项

1. A system for displaying flight procedure information to an aircrew member of an aircraft, the system comprising:
a moving map display subsystem configured to display a map that moves in a manner that corresponds with a movement of the aircraft; a position detecting subsystem that detects a current location of the aircraft with respect to a ground surface and to generate a first signal indicative of the current location of the aircraft; an electronic data storage unit that stores a plurality of flight path navigation procedures associated with a corresponding plurality of geographic locations, each of the plurality of flight path navigation procedures comprising a line segment or a plurality of connected line segments; a flight path analysis subsystem that automatically determines a preferred flight path and generates a second signal indicative of a current flight path of the aircraft, wherein the flight path analysis subsystem determines the preferred flight path automatically based at least in part on one or more of the following: an estimated fuel consumption required to fly the flight path, an estimated flight time required to fly the flight path, an estimated cost required to fly the flight path; and a processor operatively coupled with the moving map display subsystem, the position detecting subsystem, the flight path analysis subsystem, and the electronic data storage unit, wherein the processor receives the first signal from the position detecting subsystem and receives the second signal from the flight path analysis subsystem, to retrieve a subset of the plurality of flight path navigation procedures from the electronic storage unit that correspond with the current location of the aircraft and the current flight path of the aircraft, and the processor further commands the moving map display subsystem to display a graphic depiction of each of the subset of the plurality of flight path navigation procedures on the moving map display subsystem, wherein the processor cooperates with the flight path analysis subsystem to determine the preferred flight path from among the subset of the plurality of flight paths, and wherein the preferred flight path is automatically displayed with a pre-established visual cue for displaying the preferred flight path that visually differentiates the line segment or the plurality of connected line segments of the preferred flight path from the lines segment or the plurality of connected line segments of others of the subset of the plurality of flight paths.