Patent ID: 7493196
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. An onboard flight management system for aircraft comprising a flight management computer coupled to a navigation database, to a navigation screen and to a data input and display console, the flight management computer ensuring the plotting of a flight plan on the basis of data introduced by means of the data input and display console, the navigation database incorporating the plotting elements necessary for the flight management computer to plot flight plan parts satisfying various navigation procedures that the aircraft may have to comply with, some of these navigation procedures being subject to regulations and the data input and display console making reference to the navigation procedures subject to regulation by way of identifiers, wherein said flight management computer depicts, during the introduction of the flight plan's plotting data, on the navigation screen, the plots of a flight plan part corresponding to a navigation procedure subject to regulations catalogued in the navigation data base when its identifier is mentioned on the data input and display console.