Patent ID: 8234066

Claim:
An aircraft comprising: a fuselage; a cockpit located within the fuselage; a display located within the cockpit, the display controlled by a display control system, the display control system including: a graphical user interface module that generates a primary display and a context display on a display screen, and receives at least one user input; an image control module that generates primary display data for display on the primary display based on the at least one user input, and determines, based on a magnification level being used for the primary display data, whether the context display is displayed, and automatically displays the context display on the display screen as an overlay in a corner portion of the primary display when the at least one user input causes a portion of information associated therewith to be unavailable for display on the primary display; the display control system determining when to present the context display based on whether a route of travel provided by the user input can be displayed from a starting point of the route of travel, to an ending point of the route of travel, on the primary display; and the image control module is also configured to determine when the entire route of travel is displayed on the primary display to automatically remove the context display from the primary display.