Patent ID: 7787999

Claim:
A method of displaying flight management system (FMS) data, the method comprising: providing FMS route data from an FMS to a single display device; and displaying, using the FMS route data, an FMS intent strip and a separate FMS future intent strip simultaneously on the single display device, the FMS intent strip representing to a pilot current maneuvering intent of the FMS and the separate FMS future intent strip representing to the pilot future maneuvering intent of the FMS for a next flight segment, wherein displaying the FMS intent strip comprises simultaneously displaying both a lateral navigation icon in a lateral navigation window of the FMS intent strip and a vertical navigation icon in a vertical navigation window of the FMS intent strip on the single display device, the lateral navigation icon in the FMS intent strip graphically representing current lateral maneuvering intent of the FMS and the vertical navigation icon in the FMS intent strip graphically representing current vertical maneuvering intent of the FMS, wherein displaying the FMS future intent strip comprises simultaneously displaying both a lateral navigation icon in a lateral navigation window of the FMS future intent strip and a vertical navigation icon in a vertical navigation window of the FMS future intent strip, the lateral navigation icon in the FMS future intent strip graphically representing future lateral maneuvering intent of the FMS for the next flight segment and the vertical navigation icon in the FMS future intent strip graphically representing future vertical maneuvering intent of the FMS for the next flight segment, and wherein displaying the FMS intent strip further comprises also simultaneously displaying, in the FMS intent strip on the single display device, FROM and TO waypoint IDs for a current flight segment, the FROM waypoint ID for the current flight segment being displayed in a separate FROM waypoint window of the FMS intent strip, and the TO waypoint for the current flight segment being displayed in a separate TO waypoint window of the FMS intent strip.