17. The system of claim 16 wherein adding one or more instances of flight intent comprises selecting a strategy from a plurality of stored strategies and adding an instance of flight intent corresponding to the strategy.
20. The system of claim 17 wherein the step of adding an instance of flight intent includes providing a parameter range thereby forming a parametric aircraft intent, and the system further comprises instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to optimize the parametric aircraft intent by determining an optimal value for a parameter of the parameter range.