Originally Posted by
Trip7
At XJT we are taught to just follow the snowflake. The snowflake respects your most restrictive crossing fix
The snowflake represents the next altitude in the FMS. That may not be the ideal situation with multiple step downs on an rnav.
Both the banana bar and snowflake work, but the OP is asking about the way to see it all at once. Dir/INTC shows that.