Patent ID: 8682580

Claim:
A method for displaying flight information, the method comprising: identifying, by a computer system, a plurality of elements for a corresponding plurality of phases of flight for a route of an aircraft, the plurality of phases of flight comprising at least two of a parking phase, a taxiing phase, a departing phase, an en route phase, an arriving phase, and an approach phase; and displaying, by the computer system, the plurality of elements in association with the corresponding plurality of phases of flight on a strip on a display system, wherein the plurality of elements is displayed on the strip in a sequence in which the plurality of elements is encountered by the aircraft on the route during the corresponding plurality of phases of flight, wherein the strip comprises an elongate strip graphically sectioned into a plurality of sections distributed along a time axis corresponding to a subset of adjacent ones of sequential phases of flight, and wherein as an element in the plurality of elements displayed on the strip is encountered or no longer relevant to a flight of the aircraft, the element is removed from the strip or is no longer part of the plurality of elements; wherein the plurality of elements is a plurality of waypoints in which a first portion of the plurality of waypoints has a higher priority than a second portion of the plurality of waypoints, the corresponding plurality of phases of flight is an en route phase, and the step of identifying the plurality of elements for the corresponding plurality of phases of flight for the route of the aircraft comprises: identifying the plurality of elements as the first portion of the plurality of waypoints; and displaying a plurality of graphical indicators for the second portion of the plurality of waypoints, wherein the plurality of graphical indicators provide less information about the second portion of the plurality of waypoints as compared to elements displayed on the strip for the first portion of the plurality of waypoints.