FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HAVING INTERACTIVE FLIGHT PLAN SELECTION ARRANGEMENT

摘要

A flight management system for aircraft includes a navigation database that stores data representative of flight plans and a user interface for receiving user inputs. The system also includes a processor adapted to receive and convert, in response to the user inputs received from the user interface, the data from the navigation database into a format representative of images of the flight plans. A display device is operatively coupled to the processor to render the images of the flight plans. The user interface includes a rotationally or linearly displaceable positioning element for causing the flight plan images to be displayed on the display device in a prescribed sequence that does not omit any intervening flight plans arising in the sequence.