Patent ID: 7477164

Claim:
A flight display for an avionics system of an aircraft for showing an enhanced vertical situation of an aircraft, said flight display comprising a vertical terrain profile display having a format comprising: a side-on vertical terrain profile comprising a plurality of color filled vertical alerting bands representing areas of terrain that are within defined alerting limits above and below the airplane altitude, said vertical alerting bands being overlaid on plain terrain, each vertical alerting band being visible only when a portion of the terrain profile exceeds a defined alerting limit, each vertical alerting band extending vertically from an x-axis to that portion of the terrain profile above said defined alerting limit, said x-axis representing the lowest displayed altitude on the vertical terrain profile; a symbol being positioned relative to said side-on vertical terrain profile for representing an altitude and position of the aircraft; and, displays of range and altitude positioned relative to said symbol and side-on vertical terrain profile in predetermined increments.