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Map
The Area Map shows both the wing and lead aircraft, a trail of each aircraft, and all navigational aids and airports in the chosen area.
The instructor can kill any tuneable navigational aid by moving the mouse inside the box containing the ident and frequency of the navaid and clicking the left mouse button. This will cause the NAVAID Kill Overlay to pop-up.
The map denotes partially killed stations, fully killed stations, the active ILS and the active airport by changing their colors.
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Touch Reposition
Select the Touch Reposition PushButton, then move the mouse over the map to the desired reposition point, then click and release the left mouse button. The point at which the mouse is released will be interpreted as the latitude and longitude to which the wing aircraft will be repositioned. When the mouse is released the Slew Aircraft Overlay will pop-up automatically so as to allow refinement of the reposition point.
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Erase W Track
Select the Erase W Track PushButton to permanently erase the Wing aircraft's track. The track will then immediately begin to re-draw starting with the Wing aircraft's current position.
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Erase L Track
Select the Erase L Track PushButton to permanently erase the Lead aircraft's track. The track will then immediately begin to re-draw starting with the Lead aircraft's current position.
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Slew
Select the Slew PushButton to pop-up the Slew Aircraft Overlay.
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Symbol Display
Select the Symbol Display PushButton to pop-up the Symbol Display Overlay, which allows selection of symbols to display on the map.
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NAVAID Kill
Select the NAVAID Kill PushButton to pop-up the NAVAID Kill Overlay, which allows navaids to be killed or restored.
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Spider Web
Select the Spider Web PushButton to pop-up the Spider Web Overlay, which allows control over the spider web displayed on the map.
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Touch Storm Location
Select the Touch Storm Location PushButton, then move the mouse over the map to the desired storm cell point, then click and release the left mouse button. The point at which the mouse is released will be interpreted as the latitude and longitude to which the active storm cell will be positioned. When the mouse is released the Storm Cell Overlay will pop-up automatically so as to allow refinement of the storm cell.
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Map Center
Map panning is accomplished by left-clicking and draging the map. Map zooming is accomplished by using the mouse wheel. Select the Auto CheckBox to cause the map to automatically be re-centered at the aircraft's latitude and longitude at the point in time at which the aircraft would have flown out of the current view. | Note: When the Auto CheckBox is selected, attempting to select the Cursor or the Airport PushButtons in the Map Center GroupBox is not recommended. Selecting either of these may cause the map to briefly re-center to the selected point then quickly re-auto-center, thus causing an undesired flash of the Area Map. | Select the Aircraft PushButton to cause the map to be re-centered at the aircraft's latitude and longitude at that particular point in time. This does not mean that the aircraft will stay at the center of the screen and the map move underneath it. It is a one time (per selection) adjustment of the map center. Select the Airport PushButton to cause the map to be re-centered to the airport selected in the EditBox. Use the EditBox to select the airport to use to re-center the map when the Airport PushButton is selected.
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Auto Scale vs Auto Center
Note: Selecting the Auto CheckBox found in the Map Center GroupBox overrides the selection of the Auto CheckBox found in the Scale GroupBox.
Simply stated: Auto scaling is not done when auto centering is selected. |
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Scale GroupBox
Select the Auto CheckBox to automatically cause the map scale to double when the student's aircraft is about to fly out of the displayed area, or the scale to halve when the student's aircraft is about to fly into the center of the displayed area. | Note: Using the Scale Slider or the Scale EditBox while having the Auto CheckBox selected is not recommended since Auto Scaling will override the selections made with either the Slider or the EditBox. | Adjust the Scale Slider to adjust the map scale accordingly. If the slider is adjusted to 20nm, then the map will show an area that is 20nm from the top to bottom edge (more than 20nm will be shown from the left to right edge of the map since the map is wider than it is tall). Use the Scale EditBox as an alternate method for changing the map scale.
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