Originally Posted by
Jonathon
HITS boxes for the active flight plan leg are pink, and HITS boxes for nonactive legs on the flight plan are purple. If you are seeing the darker HITS boxes on subsequent flight plan legs it is because you are not actively flying on that leg as far as the EFIS sees it.
As for climbs/descents, the HITS boxes will follow the altitude bug, but they do not compute a sloped climb or glide path for you to follow. The only time the HITS boxes will show a glidepath is for the destination airport when you select a runway and glidepath for landing.