Patent ID: 8694184

Claim:
A task-oriented method of organizing a flight management interface system, the method activating a plurality of tabs associated with flight management tasks, comprising: displaying a first tab-pane comprising operational information associated with a plurality of flight management tasks; responsive to a first event, wherein the first event is one of a pilot input or a system input, activating a second tab-pane comprising of a plurality of modification options for at least one flight management task; activating a third tab-pane comprising information related to the flight management task presented in the first tab-pane wherein the information comprises at least one of descriptive data, predictive data, and planning data; responsive to a second event, wherein the second event is one of a second pilot input or a second system input to a plurality of modification fields of at least one of the modification options, storing a pending modification for the flight management task for at least one of a review step or an execution step; and responsive to a third event, wherein the third event is a pilot input, executing the pending modification.