Feature req: diff. colors calculated/selected RWY/SID/STAR

[Jonas Eberle]

Since some months I am trying to find the best way to manage cleared SIDs/STARs/RWYs.

 

Our .ese is (as most are, I suppose) built in a way so that SIDs and STARs get selected automatically based on active runways. That is very helpful.

 

But:

• The most common STAR (runway transition) is automatically selected, although it is not always cleared.
  Same for RWYs: as some major airports, we have constantly more than 1 active arrival runway - but the first mentioned in the .ese is selected together with the SID/STAR, although it might not have been to the pilot yet.
  
• For SIDs it is nice to see the auto-selected SID, but it has to be made sure that it is clicked on again so that it is ammended to the flightplan (for VRC compatibility).

 

What I want to achieve is:

• keep track of clearances I really gave vs. those that have been calculated.
  
• make use of the powerful "magic" [Mod - Happy Thoughts]umptions the .ese allows

 

What most controllers at EDDF do:

• write the runway expectations of approaching planes and the cleared STARs/transitions into the scratchpad to provide this information to the next controller or as a reminder for themselves (expected arrival runway). This way everything in scratchpad is a "real" clearance/given expectation, the EuroScope tag functions are "only" the calculated values.
  
• teach all students that, if using EuroScope, they must make sure that the SID is ammended to the flightpan.

-> I do not like this solution... We have these nice EuroScope functions ("[Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned runway/SID/STAR" tag items), I would like to make full use of them.

 

What I tried:

• adapt the .ese as to never automatically select STARs (remove the first waypoint and the [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned runways) - advantage: nothing that has not been cleared is displayed; disadvantage: the STAR list is unnecessarily long (as all STARs, not only those for active runways, are displayed), the magic of the .ese has been disabled.

 

Thus I would like to suggest:

• Allow different colors for calculated vs. [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned RWYs/SIDs/STARs.

 

How do others handle this situation? What do you think about different colors?

[Stephan Boerner 945550]

already registered http://www.euroscope.hu/Mantis/view.php?id=323

Edited January 8, 2010 at 08:25 PM by Guest

[Jonas Eberle]

hups, ok, thank you