Patent ID: 8330625

Claim:
An aircraft system, comprising: a visual display system; a printer; and a flight management system coupled to the visual display system and the printer, the flight management system including a processor and a plurality of data sources coupled to the processor, the processor comprising a crew interface module coupled to the plurality of data sources, a display driver coupled to the crew interface module and the visual display system, and a printer driver coupled to the crew interface module and the printer, the crew interface module configured to generate a report from data from the data sources and to send the report to the visual display system via the display driver, the visual display system configured to receive the report and to display the report, wherein the crew interface module includes a scrolling graphical component that converts a first portion of the data of the report into a scrollable list for display on the visual display system, wherein the visual display system is configured to display a first display portion and a second display portion on a single screen, the first display portion including the scrollable list and the second display portion being unscrollable, wherein the visual display system is configured to display the second display portion in a printable format, and wherein the printer, via the printer driver, is configured to print the second display portion in the printable format and the first display portion as an unscrolled list.