A flight deck system for providing task management assistance in managing the flight path to the flight crew, the system comprising one or more processors configured by programming instructions on non-transient computer readable media, the system configured to: mine flight plan data, navigational data, and vertical situation display data from one or more aircraft systems, the mined flight plan data including a plurality of waypoints and other course data items for a current flight plan, the mined navigational data comprising aircraft location, speed, and heading data, the mined VSD data comprising a vertical profile of the aircraft for the current flight plan, an altitude reference, terrain data, and glideslope data, and the other course data items comprising a plurality of a scheduled altitude change, scheduled speed change, a scheduled heading change, and an altitude, speed, or time restriction; obtain notification data items originating from systems external to avionics systems on the aircraft that indicate upcoming conditions that will affect the aircraft flight plan and a location at which the upcoming conditions will affect the aircraft flight plan; determine an estimated flight time to reach each of the plurality of waypoints, course data items, and the upcoming conditions; cause an integrated interactive graphical user interface comprising a timeline GUI, a map GUI, and a VSD GUI to be displayed on an aircraft display, wherein the timeline GUI is configured to display a timeline, waypoint graphical elements representative of the waypoints, course data item graphical elements representative of the other course data items, and notification data item graphical elements representative of the upcoming conditions, and wherein when displayed each waypoint graphical element, course data item graphical element and notification data item graphical element is positioned on the timeline along with the estimated time for the aircraft to reach the graphical element; automatically analyze the mined flight plan data and the notification data items to determine if deviation from the flight plan is suggested; and provide a notification of the suggested deviation when deviation is suggested, wherein the notification of the suggested deviation is in the form of a selectable deviation notification graphical element displayed on the integrated interactive GUI, wherein selection of the selectable deviation notification graphical element causes the display of one or more selectable deviation recommendation graphical elements, each containing graphical data that is descriptive of a flight path deviation recommendation option. mine flight plan data, navigational data, and vertical situation display data from one or more aircraft systems, the mined flight plan data including a plurality of waypoints and other course data items for a current flight plan, the mined navigational data comprising aircraft location, speed, and heading data, the mined VSD data comprising a vertical profile of the aircraft for the current flight plan, an altitude reference, terrain data, and glideslope data, and the other course data items comprising a plurality of a scheduled altitude change, scheduled speed change, a scheduled heading change, and an altitude, speed, or time restriction; obtain notification data items originating from systems external to avionics systems on the aircraft that indicate upcoming conditions that will affect the aircraft flight plan and a location at which the upcoming conditions will affect the aircraft flight plan; determine an estimated flight time to reach each of the plurality of waypoints, course data items, and the upcoming conditions; cause an integrated interactive graphical user interface comprising a timeline GUI, a map GUI, and a VSD GUI to be displayed on an aircraft display, wherein the timeline GUI is configured to display a timeline, waypoint graphical elements representative of the waypoints, course data item graphical elements representative of the other course data items, and notification data item graphical elements representative of the upcoming conditions, and wherein when displayed each waypoint graphical element, course data item graphical element and notification data item graphical element is positioned on the timeline along with the estimated time for the aircraft to reach the graphical element; automatically analyze the mined flight plan data and the notification data items to determine if deviation from the flight plan is suggested; and provide a notification of the suggested deviation when deviation is suggested, wherein the notification of the suggested deviation is in the form of a selectable deviation notification graphical element displayed on the integrated interactive GUI, wherein selection of the selectable deviation notification graphical element causes the display of one or more selectable deviation recommendation graphical elements, each containing graphical data that is descriptive of a flight path deviation recommendation option.