Difference between revisions of "Help + Tips"

Revision as of 06:57, 4 October 2015

In this article, we will describe some useful tips to be taken into account for when flight planning.

TIP 1

Before creating a route, we always recommend to:

create an Aircraft profile
assign it to the current Mission.

TIP 2

Always check the red bubbles for each module of a Flight. They will give you information about the problem.

TIP 3

Check that your downloaded map is enabled under the Map TAB.

TIP 4

The Map options to show or hide waypoints, airspaces and other widgets such as NOTAM, METAR and obstacles are managed from the Map TAB.

TIP 5

You can enter the ID of the waypoints you wish to add to the route in the search field.

TIP 6

You can right-click on the moving map to reach various options.

TIP 7

When terrain is an obstacle for our route, we can add mid waypoints in the Elevation graph making a click on the problematic area directly in the graph.

TIP 8

You can show or hide airspaces in the Elevation Graph from the Map TAB.

TIP 9

Units can be configured from the «Preferences» module under under «File» top menu.

TIP 10

You can enable useful widgets from the Map TAB.

TIP 11

The wheel symbol at top of the menus have useful options to check out.

TIP 12

If you do not want to show all the contact frequencies when you print your flight out, you can uncheck them from the waypoint info window.

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-We will describe below some cool tips to be taken into account for when flight planning.
+In this article, we will describe some useful tips to be taken into account for when flight planning.
 * '''TIP 1'''
 : Before creating a route, we always recommend to:
-# create an Aircraft profile
+* create an Aircraft profile
-# assign it to the current Mission.
+* assign it to the current Mission.
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 [[File:tip1_mac.jpg]]