Patent ID: 8428872

Claim:
A method of receiving and displaying a taxiway navigation route on a control display unit comprising a scratchpad and a plurality of display lines, the method comprising: entering a plurality of taxi route segments into a scratchpad so that the plurality of taxi route segments are all simultaneously displayed in the scratchpad, wherein the plurality of taxi route segments comprises at least a first taxi route segment and a second taxi route segment; then selecting a single display line select key to select a first display line associated with the single display line select key; after selecting the single display line select key, automatically assigning the taxi route segments to separate display lines in the order in which the taxi route segments were received to form a taxiway navigation route, wherein the first taxi route segment is automatically assigned to the first display line, and the second taxi route segment is automatically assigned to a second display line; and after assigning the taxi route segments to separate display lines, automatically displaying the taxi route segments on the control display unit in the order in which the taxi route segments were received, wherein the first taxi route segment is automatically displayed on the first display line, and the second taxi route segment is automatically displayed on the second display line.