Abstract: An aircraft system includes a visual display system; a printer; and a flight management system coupled to the visual display system and the printer. The flight management system includes a processor and a plurality of data sources coupled to the processor. The processor includes 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 is 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 is configured to receive the report and to display the report.

Abstract: A visual display system includes a monitor for displaying a visual display; a memory having a user application definition file containing information related to the visual display; and a processor coupled to the monitor and the memory, the processor configured to receive runtime parameters from a flight management system and provide the visual display to the monitor based on the runtime parameters and the user application definition file. The visual display includes at least one hotkey.

Abstract: A rendering technique for generating a three dimensional (3D) image is provided. The technique includes the steps of collecting 3D data, writing the 3D data into texture memory as two dimensional (2D) slices, and texturizing a first set of overlapping polygons utilizing the 2D slices. The technique further includes the step of displaying the first set of overlapping texturized polygons to produce a 3D image.

Abstract: An aircraft system includes a visual display system; a printer; and a flight management system coupled to the visual display system and the printer. The flight management system includes a processor and a plurality of data sources coupled to the processor. The processor includes 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 is 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 is configured to receive the report and to display the report.

Abstract: A flight plan comparison method is provided to be carried out by a display system deployed on an aircraft. The flight plan comparison method includes the steps of storing a group of flight plans and generating a first flight plan comparison page wherein the values of a first type of variable are graphically expressed for a plurality of flight plans in the group of stored flight plans.

Abstract: A rendering technique for generating a three dimensional (3D) image is provided. The technique includes the steps of collecting 3D data, writing the 3D data into texture memory as two dimensional (2D) slices, and texturizing a first set of overlapping polygons utilizing the 2D slices. The technique further includes the step of displaying the first set of overlapping texturized polygons to produce a 3D image.

Abstract: A visual display system includes a monitor for displaying a visual display; a memory having a user application definition file containing information related to the visual display; and a processor coupled to the monitor and the memory, the processor configured to receive runtime parameters from a flight management system and provide the visual display to the monitor based on the runtime parameters and the user application definition file. The visual display includes at least one hotkey.

Abstract: A radar display system (10) according to the present invention generates textured radar display data by utilizing a direct memory access receiver (12) to receive radially scanned radar data, to convert the radially scanned radar data into range bin data sets, and to store the range bin data sets. A graphics renderer (18) stores the set of range bin data sets in a texture memory (20) as a plurality of rectangular textures, and bit maps the rectangular textures to a series of display triangles in a frame buffer (22). The graphics renderer (18) colors the display triangles in accordance with the rectangular textures by performing a bi-linear interpolation of the color and warps the display triangles in accordance with the size of a display (24).