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The Airport Finder dialog, accessible under the Tools menu, allows one to easily find airports using various criteria: distance to a chosen, “reference airport”; number of land runways, water runways, or helipads; length of the longest or shortest runway in the airport, etc. Results are listed in a table giving these criteria for each airport as well as the initial and final bearings for the shortest path from or to the reference airport. The table of results can be sorted according to airport ICAO code, name or any of the aforementioned criteria (click on a column header to sort according to the corresponding field; click a second time on the same column header to reverse the sort order). | The Airport Finder dialog, accessible under the Tools menu, allows one to easily find airports using various criteria: distance to a chosen, “reference airport”; number of land runways, water runways, or helipads; length of the longest or shortest runway in the airport, etc. Results are listed in a table giving these criteria for each airport as well as the initial and final bearings for the shortest path from or to the reference airport. The table of results can be sorted according to airport ICAO code, name or any of the aforementioned criteria (click on a column header to sort according to the corresponding field; click a second time on the same column header to reverse the sort order). | ||
This dialog is fairly versatile, but one of the uses it is particularly well-suited for is to find a start airport in the desired range with respect to a given airport. For instance, let's say you saw on the [[MPMap|multiplayer map]] that someone is offering [[Air traffic control|Air Traffic Control (ATC)]] services at MHTG (just an example), and you are looking for an airport that is neither too close, nor too far from MHTG in order to take off there and land at MHTG, following instructions from the air traffic controller. Since it is possible, in the Airport Finder dialog, to sort found airports based on bearings from, or to the reference airport, you can also easily find airports that are, for instance, located more or less north-east of the reference airport. Many, many other things are possible. cf. [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=27054&p=269261#p268159 this forum message for more details]. | This dialog is fairly versatile, but one of the uses it is particularly well-suited for is to find a start airport in the desired range with respect to a given airport. For instance, let's say you saw on the [[MPMap|multiplayer map]] that someone is offering [[Air traffic control|Air Traffic Control (ATC)]] services at MHTG (just an example), and you are looking for an airport that is neither too close, nor too far from MHTG in order to take off from there and land at MHTG, following instructions from the air traffic controller. Since it is possible, in the Airport Finder dialog, to sort found airports based on bearings from, or to the reference airport, you can also easily find airports that are, for instance, located more or less north-east of the reference airport. Many, many other things are possible. cf. [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=27054&p=269261#p268159 this forum message for more details]. | ||
=== The GPS Tool dialog === | === The GPS Tool dialog === | ||