Patent ID: 9273969
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G01C,G06F,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A method for positioning a new waypoint in a flight plan displayed on an avionics display in the form of an interactive graphical image, the method comprising: processing user input to select an existing waypoint in the flight plan; generating, adjacent the selected waypoint, symbology on the display graphically representative of the new waypoint on the flight plan; dragging the new waypoint on the display a predetermined distance from the selected waypoint to alter its position and to create a new flight plan; displaying symbology representative of the numerical distance that the new waypoint is being dragged relative to the selected waypoint; generating symbology representative of whether the new waypoint is being dragged to a position prior to or past the selected waypoint; applying the new waypoint to the flight plan; and processing user input to activate the new flight plan.