Patent ID: 8583368
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a data processing system; a location information system in an aircraft; an electronic flight bag; a primary flight display dedicated to flight information for the aircraft and a secondary display in control area of the aircraft, wherein the secondary display is a multi-function display configured to receive display information from a moving map system in the electronic flight bag and in the data processing system, wherein the moving map system dynamically creates and displays a moving map based on a current location of an aircraft from the location information system and a terminal chart or an enroute map; program code configured to run on the data processing system to receive location information from the location information system and to dynamically generate display instructions for the moving map using a current location of the aircraft; wherein the secondary display is configured by a user selection of a number of display rules at an interface, wherein the number of display rules cause the secondary display to display the moving map and to display a minimum safe altitude information on the moving map for an aircraft approaching one of a plurality of sectors of a circle centered on a navigational aide, each of the plurality of sectors displaying corresponding minimum safe altitude information.