Patent ID: 7467031

Claim:
A method for presenting meteorological phenomena data on an avionics display unit of an aircraft comprising: a memory, a map background generator and a display coupled to the memory and the map background generator wherein the avionics display unit has received pilot report (PIREP) information and stored the PIREP information in the memory, the PIREP information including flight location data, flight level data, meteorological phenomena data and report time data representing a report time of the PIREP information, wherein the meteorological phenomena data comprises phenomena location data, phenomena altitude data and phenomena type data, the method comprising the steps of: generating an icon defined by the meteorological phenomena data of the PIREP information in response to a graphical pilot report request signal; and presenting the icon at an icon location on the display over a map display generated by the map background generator, the icon location determined in response to the phenomena location data of the PIREP information.