Patent ID: 9534922
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G01C

Claim:
1. A system for recording at least one command not stated in an approved flight plan, comprising: a route management system; at least one display unit configured to display an image divided into a plurality of visible windows and within which at least one of a horizontal situation display (“HSD”) image and a vertical situation display (“VSD”) image, where the HSD image of a first lateral profile of ownship and an approved flight plan stating at least a waypoint, command, and altitude is presented within a first window, and the VSD image of a first vertical profile of ownship, an altitude scale, and the approved flight plan is presented within a second window different from the first window, where at least one human-machine interface (“HMI”) device configured to: receive input data representative of a user's request to modify the approved flight plan by a user selecting one GUI representing at least one waypoint of the HSD image of the first lateral profile and the VSD image of the first vertical profile, and provide the input data to an avionics route modification device; and the avionics route modification device configured to: receive the input data; retrieve flight management data representative of the approved flight plan; generate a message data set representative of at least one pre-formatted message overlying the at least one of the first lateral profile and the first vertical profile in response to the receiving the input data, where receive command data representative of at least one command not stated in the approved flight plan from a user's interaction with at least one visually-conspicuous, user-interactive variable field; send the command data to the route management system, such that