Patent ID: 9494945
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G05D,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A flight management device for an aircraft, the flight management device comprising: a display configured to display, to an operator, information relating to a plurality of waypoints of a flight plan; a processor in electrical communication with the display; an input in electrical communication with the processor and configured to receive temporal flight constraints from the operator, wherein a temporal situation of the aircraft is defined by at least: a storage device in electrical communication with the processor and configured to store a database comprising a plurality of predefined strategies for convergence of flight predictions of the aircraft to one or more of the temporal flight constraints, each of the predefined strategies being based on the one or more of the temporal flight constraints along the flight plan and an order of the one or more of the temporal flight constraints along the flight plan, wherein: the input is further configured to operate a selection or a modification of the temporal flight constraints relating to a waypoint, and is further configured to receive, from the operator, a selection or modification of one or more of the predefined strategies, the processor is further configured to determine the temporal situation of the aircraft relating to other waypoints in response to selection or modification of the temporal flight constraints relating to the waypoint, and is further configured to apply the selected one or more of the predefined strategies, the display is further configured to display the plurality of the predefined strategies, and is further configured to simultaneously display the temporal situation of the aircraft in relation to the plurality of waypoints of the flight plan, and the display is further configured to simultaneously display a plurality of timelines corresponding to the plurality of waypoints, each timeline comprising a particularization of at least the estimated target time of transit of the aircraft, a predicted time of transit of the aircraft, and the estimated minimum and maximum times of arrival at the corresponding waypoint, wherein the display is further configured to display the plurality of timelines as a plurality of vertically separate timelines; wherein the display is further configured to display the plurality of timelines vertically sequentially from top to bottom according to the flight plan; and wherein the display is further configured to display the plurality of timelines in parallel.