Patent ID: 8604942

Claim:
A method for displaying the velocity rate-of-change (VROC) of at least one neighboring aircraft on a cockpit monitor included within a cockpit display system of a host aircraft, the cockpit display system receiving and displaying position and velocity data pertaining to the neighboring aircraft on the cockpit monitor as a position symbol and a velocity vector graphic, respectively, the method comprising: determining the VROC of the neighboring aircraft; generating a marker on the velocity vector that separates a first region on the velocity vector that visually represents a positive VROC from a second region on the velocity vector that visually represents a negative VROC; generating VROC symbology on the cockpit display at a location along the velocity vector that is indicative of the neighboring aircraft's VROC, wherein the VROC symbology comprises a plurality of symbols, the number and location of which visually represent a discreet range of VROC.