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==Defining a Route== | ==Defining a Route== | ||
The simplest way to define a route is to add waypoints one at a time by identifier. Since navaid identifiers are not unique, the route-manager uses your departure airport or the previously defined waypoint to | The simplest way to define a route is to add waypoints one at a time by identifier. Since navaid identifiers are not unique, the route-manager uses your departure airport or the previously defined waypoint to locate the identifier search. In practice, navaids with conflicting names are located far enough apart that this works automatically in practice. | ||
Until departure and arrival procedures are supported, you can often define them yourself, by creating offset waypoints | Until departure and arrival procedures are supported, you can often define them yourself, by creating offset waypoints, as shown in the examples below. | ||
Routes can be loaded (and soon, saved) to a simple XML format, so you may prefer to create the routes in a text editor, and load them instead of entering them by hand. Support for flight-planning tools is also planned, contact the developer list if you are interested on working on such a feature. | Routes can be loaded (and soon, saved) to a simple XML format, so you may prefer to create the routes in a text editor, and load them instead of entering them by hand. Support for flight-planning tools is also planned, contact the developer list if you are interested on working on such a feature. | ||
In the future, auto-routing using airways or VOR-VOR routing will also be added. | In the future, auto-routing using airways or VOR-VOR routing will also be added. | ||
Example waypoint definitions: | |||
;KJFK | |||
: airport identifier | |||
;UW | |||
: navaid identifier (NDB, VOR or a fix/interaction) | |||
;TLA/210/35 | |||
: offset from a navaid - in this example, the 210-degree magnetic radial from TLA VOR, 35 nautical miles out | |||
;WOBAD@18000 | |||
: WOBAD fix, at eighteen thousand feet altitude | |||
;SPL/050/12.3@2000 | |||
: 12.3 nautical miles from SPL VOR on the 050 magnetic radial, at two thousand feet | |||
==Activating a Route== | ==Activating a Route== | ||