Quote Originally Posted by Jonathon View Post
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.
Jonathon, thanks for the quick reply.

I suspected the reason for the purple boxes was that the EFIS doesn't believe I'm flying that leg. But I AM flying the leg, right through the purple boxes. When I approach a transition from one leg to another, there is a number that 'floats' in the sky which I assume are the GPS coordinates for the transition point. Whatever the number is, as I pass the intersection, I would expect the 'invisible' purple next leg to change to the 'visible' pink current leg, but it does not.

If the EFIS doesn't use my location in space to determine which leg I am flying, what does it use? How can I get it to recognize I'm flying the leg?

I have the workaround I described above, but it is a major distraction to have to manually select a leg that I'm flying on my Foreflight on iPad and then transfer the flight plan (yet again) to the EFIS to get the current leg to turn pink.

Hal