Mark Wolpert Posted October 31, 2010 at 02:12 PM Posted October 31, 2010 at 02:12 PM Hi, I have been using ES for some time and have yet to figure out the following: 1) How can you tell if an aircraft is squawking mode C on the ground ? In VRC their tag changes but in ES I can't figure it out. I am using two screens with my main screen as IFR and second as VFR screen showing ground traffic at the airport. 2) I am currently using realistic correlation but honestly I find that it is not that realistic on Vatsim. The reason is that we get so many aircraft from outside of our airspace (from other FIR's) that need to be correlated. This is something that obviously would not happen in the real world as those aircraft would be under control and handed off. Is there a way to set up ES so that aircraft entering your airspace from outside the FIR are auto correlated ? thanks for the help. Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todor Atanasov 878664 Posted October 31, 2010 at 03:09 PM Posted October 31, 2010 at 03:09 PM About the first did you check the wiki about aircraft status? => http://euroscope.hu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Sectors_And_Aircraft_States. Also check you can switch on/off to show traffic squawking standby from the ES menu. What simulation mode are you using? Have you changed the symbols for the standby tracks? As for the second problem, yes that is a minus in VATSIM, but that will be fixed in the next release. As for now you can change the correlation distance to something bigger (60-70nm), that will increase the radius from the radar target to pick-up the flight plan track. EuroScope BETA Tester/Board of Designers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolpert Posted October 31, 2010 at 05:25 PM Author Posted October 31, 2010 at 05:25 PM I am using Canscope with Mode-S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todor Atanasov 878664 Posted October 31, 2010 at 06:27 PM Posted October 31, 2010 at 06:27 PM Doesn't CANScope has it's own target symbols? Can't you ask the developers of the plugin about the track symbols? http://forum.vatcan.org/viewforum.php?f=5 EuroScope BETA Tester/Board of Designers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolpert Posted October 31, 2010 at 06:33 PM Author Posted October 31, 2010 at 06:33 PM Yes, it does have its own symbols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wycliffe Barrett Posted November 1, 2010 at 01:26 PM Posted November 1, 2010 at 01:26 PM Mark Regardless of what mode your using or plugin the simplest way to determine if an aircraft is squawking mode charlie is to look at the flight strip. F6 click on the aircraft primary return on the grd. even if you have a lot of aircraft on the grd clicking on a primary return of any aircraft will give you a flight strip if its the wrong one click on the next return. Once you have done this and you look to the far right of the flight strip you will possibly see two squawk codes on that you have given say 1234 and then below that another squawk code in brackets which is the one they actually are squawking such as (5678). Simply ask the aircraft to sqk charlie and you will see the lower one with brackets go, once the aircraft is airborne you will se know sqk codes at all on the flight strip. Telling you thatthe aircraft is sqauwking charlie and the correct one. Wycliffe Wycliffe Barrett: C3 Controller "if god meant for us to fly, he would have given us tickets" Mel Brooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolpert Posted November 4, 2010 at 09:51 PM Author Posted November 4, 2010 at 09:51 PM Great thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolpert Posted November 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM Author Posted November 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM Wycliffe, I must be missing something because today on two occasions I checked the strip (F6) of the aircraft and it showed 1 squawk code that was the correct one. Once airborne the tag showed only " Y " and I had to ask the pilot to squawk Charlie. Any ideas? Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todor Atanasov 878664 Posted November 8, 2010 at 08:29 AM Posted November 8, 2010 at 08:29 AM OK, I must clear something here, you can see two SQ codes: * [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned squawk - the top line contains the [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned squawk (it may be empty if no squawk is [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned by any controller so far) * actual squawk - in brackets; it is not displayed if the [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned and the current squawk equals The [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ign squawk is visible at any time, as long as there is a [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ign code from controller. The actual squawk is visible when the traffic is squawking C and is different from the [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ign. EuroScope BETA Tester/Board of Designers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolpert Posted November 8, 2010 at 11:00 PM Author Posted November 8, 2010 at 11:00 PM Thanks for clarification. So if the aircraft is squawking standby but is on the [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned code then you cannot tell they are sq mode standby. Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todor Atanasov 878664 Posted November 9, 2010 at 09:22 AM Posted November 9, 2010 at 09:22 AM Correct. But any way, that is simply a secondary sign for you to detect if a plane is squawking standby. There is a symbol in ES for standby target EuroScope BETA Tester/Board of Designers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todor Atanasov 878664 Posted November 9, 2010 at 09:22 AM Posted November 9, 2010 at 09:22 AM Correct. But any way, that is simply a secondary sign for you to detect if a plane is squawking standby. There is a symbol in ES for standby target EuroScope BETA Tester/Board of Designers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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