Aircraft charting system with multi-touch interaction gestures for managing a map of an airport

A computer system, the computer system comprising:

• a display device;
• a storage device;
• program code stored on the storage device;
• and
• a processor unit configured to run the program code to display a map of an airport on a screen of the display device;
• detect a movement of a number of fingers with respect to a number of aeronautical objects on the map of the airport, wherein in detecting the movement of the number of fingers with respect to the number of aeronautical objects on the map of the airport, the processor unit is configured to run the program code to detect at least one of a placement of the number of fingers with respect to the number of aeronautical objects on the map and a movement of the number of fingers to a number of positions with respect to the number of aeronautical objects on the map;
• wherein detecting the hold short gesture causes a mark to be displayed at a point on a runway on the map that an aircraft cannot pass;
• wherein detecting the missed approach gesture causes a new route for the aircraft to be displayed on the map;
• wherein detecting the parallel runway gesture causes an alternate runway to be highlighted on the map;
• wherein detecting the report position gesture causes a marker to be placed on the runway at a point that the aircraft must report its position;
• and wherein detecting the back track gesture causes a path to be displayed on the map for the aircraft to turn around on the runway;
• and display information generated by an operation based on the number of aeronautical objects on the map of the airport in response to detecting the movement of the number of fingers with respect to the number of aeronautical objects on the map of the airport;
• wherein the number of fingers is at least two fingers;
• wherein the movement of the number of fingers is a gesture selected from a list consisting of a hold short gesture, a missed approach gesture, a parallel runway gesture, a back track gesture, and a report position gesture.

A non-transitory computer program product, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer recordable storage medium;
• program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for displaying a map of an airport on a display device;
• program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for detecting a movement of a number of fingers with respect to a number of aeronautical objects on the map of the airport, wherein the program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for detecting the movement of the number of fingers with respect to the number of aeronautical objects on the map of the airport comprises:
• program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for detecting at least one of a placement of the number of fingers with respect to the number of aeronautical objects on the map and the movement of the number of fingers to a number of positions with respect to the number of aeronautical objects on the map;
• wherein detecting the hold short gesture causes a mark to be displayed at a point on a runway on the map that an aircraft cannot pass;
• wherein detecting the missed approach gesture causes a new route for the aircraft to be displayed on the map;
• wherein detecting the parallel runway gesture causes an alternate runway to be highlighted on the map;
• wherein detecting the report position gestures causes a marker to be placed on the runway at a point that the aircraft must report its position;
• and wherein detecting the back track gesture causes a path to be displayed on the map for the aircraft to turn around on the runway;
• and program code, stored on the computer recordable storage medium, for displaying information generated by an operation based on the number of aeronautical objects on the map of the airport in response to detecting the movement of the number of fingers with respect to the number of aeronautical objects on the map of the airport;
• wherein the number of fingers is at least two fingers;
• wherein the movement of the number of fingers is a gesture selected from a list consisting of a hold short gesture, a missed approach gesture, a parallel runway gesture, a back track gesture, and a report position gesture.