Patent ID: 9037410
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for creating a secondary flight plan based on an objective for modifying a current flight plan, the method comprising the steps of: entering, into an entering unit, an objective for creating the secondary flight plan, wherein the objective is based on one of the following objectives: extracting from a database the current flight plan; generating a flight plan outline, wherein the flight plan outline is generated by an outline generating unit, which generates the flight plan outline by deleting parameters of the extracted current flight plan based on parameters of the objective entered into the entering unit; requesting, by a requesting unit, information relating to the parameters deleted by the outline generating unit, wherein the request is displayed on a first viewing screen in the form of tasks guidance in which a plurality of options based on the deleted parameters are proposed on the first viewing screen, and the request is to select one of the proposed options; entering, into an information entering unit, one of the options proposed by the requesting unit; creating the secondary flight plan, by a flight plan creating unit, wherein the flight plan creating unit creates the secondary flight plan by filling in the deleted parameters of the flight plan outline, based on the option entered into the information entering unit; and displaying the secondary flight plan on a second viewing screen, wherein the first viewing screen and the second viewing screen are the same viewing screen or are different viewing screens.