System and methods for improving predicted path display output

摘要

Systems and methods for alerting a flight crew when the vertical situation display (44) may be providing incomplete information due to the presence of a non-computed trajectory segment in the flight plan. A processing device (38) in signal communication with a flight management system (40), a position measuring system (48), and a velocity measuring system (46) receives a flight plan from the flight management system and determines if the flight plan includes any non-computed trajectory segments. If at least one of time or distance to the beginning of a next non-computed trajectory segment is less than a threshold value, the processing device generates an alert that information displayed on a vertical situation display may be incomplete. An output device (44) outputs the generated alert.