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You are missing the FlightGear scenery data for your location, or ATC-pie does not know where it is. Check out the ''Tower viewing'' feature note in this article. | You are missing the FlightGear scenery data for your location, or ATC-pie does not know where it is. Check out the ''Tower viewing'' feature note in this article. | ||
=== Simulated aircraft appear to dip underground or levitate over taxiways. === | |||
You are probably missing a ground elevation map for your location. Quoting from <code>resources/elev/Notice</code>: "''When no elevation map is found for an airport, the field elevation value is used everywhere on the ground. This should be OK for a rough approximation on flat terrain, but ground traffic will not follow any slopes, thus may appear as floating above the ground, or digging into it.''" | |||
Read the full file for instructions on how to build your elevation map. Once you have or if you decide that your field is flat enough, a last possible altitude adjustment is available from the ''Options'' menu: "Alt. offset for AI traffic in FG views". It applies the given offset to all traffic rendered by the views. | |||
=== I cannot connect to my teacher as a student. === | === I cannot connect to my teacher as a student. === | ||
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* or to create a virtual network, using a third-party VPN service. | * or to create a virtual network, using a third-party VPN service. | ||
== What is ...? What value/setting for ...? == | == What is ...? Why is ...? What value/setting for ...? == | ||
=== What is the FlightGear strip exchange server? Which one to use? === | === What is the FlightGear strip exchange server? Which one to use? === | ||
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Choose any name you would like to be recognised by on the network. In ATC-pie, it will appear in the tooltip over your callsign for connected ATCs who see you. In a sense, this feature is more social than technical, but makes sense as typical ATC callsigns (e.g. "VHHHtwr") remain mostly anonymous over MP. Use this field so that other players can identify you. | Choose any name you would like to be recognised by on the network. In ATC-pie, it will appear in the tooltip over your callsign for connected ATCs who see you. In a sense, this feature is more social than technical, but makes sense as typical ATC callsigns (e.g. "VHHHtwr") remain mostly anonymous over MP. Use this field so that other players can identify you. | ||
=== What is the purpose of the flat "strip shelf" button in the strip panes? === | |||
More than a button, the strip shelf is where you should drop the contacts you release without a handover, e.g. parked traffic shutting down, VFR traffic flying out of your airspace, etc. Clicking on the shelf only allows to browse the previously shelved strips, and to recall one (or more), for example shelved inadvertently. | |||
=== Why do I keep getting runway incursion alarms? === | |||
You are most probably not using your runway boxes properly. The alarm sounds when the radar detects traffic stepping on a runway in either of the following situations: | |||
* the runway is active (marked in use) and no strip is boxed for it; | |||
* it is reserved but there is already traffic on the runway; | |||
* it is reserved for a different aircraft: the boxed strip is linked to a contact that is not the entering aircraft, or the aircraft is linked to a strip different to the one boxed. | |||
If you are not interested in this feature, you can turn the runway occupation monitor off completely from the ''Options'' menu. This will deactivate all radar warnings regarding runways. Alternatively, if you are only bothered by the alarm but want to keep the visual runway highlighting system, you can mute the sound notification by unticking it in the notification dock pull-down menu. | |||
== Where is ...? How to ...? == | == Where is ...? How to ...? == | ||