Patent ID: 9567099
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B64D,G08G

Claim:
1. A device for providing flight management, the device comprising: an interactive user interface; at least one map displayed on the user interface; at least one flight icon displayed on the map; at least one indicator for an aircraft range, wherein the aircraft range is calculated from data exchanged with multiple servers, including at least one performance server and at least one database server; at least one calculated flight path and multiple, selectable diversion routes displayed on the user interface; an interactive ghost aircraft that is movable, by a user, along the at least one calculated flight path, wherein the interactive user interface is configured to display the interactive ghost aircraft, forecasted aircraft performance characteristics associated with the interactive ghost aircraft, and an associated action range indicating a forecasted range of the interactive ghost aircraft at a future location along the at least one calculated flight path; information regarding one or more reachable airports overlaid on the at least one map; and one or more flight plan decision points configured to delimit one diversion decision from another diversion decision and configured to offer a ‘time to decision point’ as a countdown to remaining time before making a diversion decision for selecting one of the multiple, selectable diversion routes displayed on the user interface, each of the one or more flight plan decision points including at least one task allocation.