Table trouble

Guys, I need your awesome help again.

I have two models - FlightType and FlightTypeCategory. FlightType
belongs_to FlightTypeCategories. I want to present these in a table,
the categories spanning over the flighttypes, like this:

Flight Category 1 Flight Category 2
Flight Type 1 Flight Type 2 Flight Type 3 Flight Type 4 Flight Type 5

You probably get it. The problem is - the user can show/hide the
flight types to his/her liking. So the flight type categories will
have dynamic colspans, if visible at all.

I’m completely stuck here. I have @flight_types, which calls
FlightTypes.visible, and returns an array of the visible flight types.
But I can’t seem to figure out how to run this to fetch the
corresponding flight type categories.

I hope I’ve made my issue clear. Any ideas?