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=== Strips and placeholders === | === Strips and placeholders === | ||
Whether dematerialised or on physical paper, printed out or filled by hand, the '''flight strip''' is the essential piece of air and ground traffic control. Every aircraft in contact is represented by a unique strip, and every strip represents a contact. This helps to ensure no aircraft is ever forgotten about. Strip positioning and updating then enable to monitor | Whether dematerialised or on physical paper, printed out or filled by hand, the '''flight strip''' is the essential piece of air and ground traffic control. Every aircraft in contact is represented by a unique strip, and every strip represents a contact. This helps to ensure that no aircraft is ever forgotten about. Strip positioning and updating then enable to monitor the aircraft's status, sequence number, position, intentions, etc. | ||
ATC-pie provides with various placeholders for flight strips, namely ''racks'', ''loose strip bays'' and ''runway boxes''. Depending on your ATC position and local facilities, you should choose and arrange your placeholders for optimal control. Strips can then be moved between | ATC-pie provides with various placeholders for flight strips, namely ''racks'', ''loose strip bays'' and ''runway boxes''. Depending on your ATC position and local facilities, you should choose and arrange your placeholders for optimal control. Strips can then be moved between them using mouse drag and drop. | ||
[[File:ATC-pie-screenshot-stripRacks.png|thumbnail|Strip rack panel]] | [[File:ATC-pie-screenshot-stripRacks.png|thumbnail|Strip rack panel]] | ||
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[[File:ATC-pie-screenshot-runwayReserved.png|thumbnail|Reserved runway marked in yellow]] | [[File:ATC-pie-screenshot-runwayReserved.png|thumbnail|Reserved runway marked in yellow]] | ||
In the same panel, above the racks or in their own tab (resp. column or tabbed view), you can opt to show the '''runway boxes'''. A runway box is a placeholder for a single strip, named after a runway in use and denoting a clearence to use it (enter, cross, land...). Thorough use of runways boxes will help you never clear an aircraft to land over lined up traffic for example. When freed, runway boxes display a timer since last use together with the wake turbulance category of the last contained strip, to help with separation. What is more, if you use radar, a filled runway box marks the runway as ''reserved'' on the scope | In the same panel, above the racks or in their own tab (resp. column or tabbed view), you can opt to show the '''runway boxes'''. A runway box is a placeholder for a single strip, named after a runway in use and denoting a clearence to use it (enter, cross, land...). Thorough use of runways boxes will help you never clear an aircraft to land over lined up traffic for example. When freed, runway boxes display a timer since last use together with the wake turbulance category of the last contained strip, to help with separation. What is more, if you use radar, a filled runway box marks the runway as ''reserved'' on the scope. | ||
The third placeholder type available is the '''loose strip bay''', allowing free-hand positioning of strips in | The third placeholder type available is the '''loose strip bay''', allowing free-hand positioning of strips in its reserved space. Such bays can be useful for any kind of unsequenced traffic, or to map out relative positions when controlling without a radar. You may also import background images, e.g. a ground chart to keep visual track of taxiing aircraft and vehicles. See <code>resources/bg-img/Notice</code> to learn how. | ||
Besides, there are two other places a strip can be dropped on, usually when releasing a contact: | Besides, there are two other places a strip can be dropped on, usually when releasing a contact: | ||
* a connected ATC (if accepting strip exchange), to initiate a handover; | * a connected ATC (if accepting strip exchange), to initiate a handover; | ||
* the '''strip shelf''' (visible | * the '''strip shelf''' (visible in the bottom right-hand corner of every strip panel), which removes the strip from your work bench and stores it as shelved. | ||
=== Routes and conflict warnings === | === Routes and conflict warnings === | ||