Abstract: A flight-worthy electronics system connecting the airborne electronics of a passenger aircraft to the visual display system of the aircraft provides passengers with a variety of information tailored to phases of the flight plan of the aircraft. For each phase of the flight plan, a different sequence of information is displayed. Thus, for example, during takeoff, the system may display a map showing the flight plan of the aircraft, whereas during descent, the system may alternately display the distance to destination and time to destination. Other information that may be displayed, as desired, is outside air temperature, altitude, and time or distance to a point of interest. The system causes these sequences of displays to appear automatically as determined by the preprogramming of the system.

Abstract: A flight-worthy electronics package that connects into the airborne electronics of a passenger aircraft and to that aircraft's passenger visual display system provides passengers with a variety of information real-time displays. Information that may be displayed, as desired, is flight information such as ground speed, outside air temperature or altitude. Other information that may be displayed is a map of the area that the aircraft is flying over at any particular moment. Perhaps most useful to the passengers is destination information. Besides being able to display a chart of the terminals with all its aircraft gates, and identifying the gate at which the aircraft will be arriving, connecting flight information listing flight numbers, times, gates and destination may be displayed in conjunction with the terminal chart. A flight-worthy electronics package causes these displays to appear automatically on a real-time basis as determined by the programming of the system.