Patent ID: 7783393

Claim:
A flight information display for depicting flight path information of an aircraft, the flight information display comprising: a navigation display showing a top view of the aircraft; a vertical situation display showing a side view of the aircraft; a first symbol displayed in the vertical situation display representing an aircraft position; a second symbol displayed in the vertical situation display representing a planned flight path of said aircraft; a third symbol displayed in the vertical situation display representing a projected flight path of said aircraft; a fourth symbol displayed in the navigation display representing a corridor about at least one of the planned flight path and the projected flight path; a fifth symbol displayed in the vertical situation display representing an estimated location at which said aircraft will attain a target airspeed; and a sixth symbol in the vertical situation display, generated based only on the corridor displayed in the navigation display about said at least one planned flight path and projected flight path, showing terrain information within only the displayed corridor about said at least one planned flight path and projected flight path of the navigation display.