Plane Context Menu

Opens the Flight Details window where you can see the Summary, Profile, and History of the flight.

Turns the plane tag on or off.

Turns aircraft history trails (last 1-15 positions) on or off. The number of history positions is selected in User Defined Views - Planes.

Turns velocity vector on or off for this aircraft only. Units and magnitude of vector are selected in User Defined Views - Planes.

Turn range rings around aircraft on or off. Set in User Defined Views -> Planes -> Plane Icons/Rings.

Graphically displays the filed flight plan for a plane.

Graphically displays the actual route a plane has flown.

Clears the Flight Plan change indicator box.

Select a plane to be followed on screen. Places a triangle around the selected plane while showing an information box.

See Using Follow Me for more information.

Quickly add a plane filter with any combination of origin and destination.

Displays the latest summary of weather and FAA delay information for the origin or destination airport if available. Includes METAR, Pireps, SA, FAA delay status, and twilight/sunrise/sunset times.

A graphical representation of future departures, planned arrivals and in-flight arrivals.

A tool used to locate airports and recalculate routes to those airports, that meet emergency landing requirements.

Establishes the drawing object previously selected in User Defined Views -> Drawing Objects.

Opens the Route Analyzer tool showing the planned, scheduled, and active states, of a particular flight. Route history is also shown relative to the states in My Fleet.

Schd - Scheduled, when FE receives schedule information.

Plnd - Planned, when the Airline files the flight plan.

Actv - In-flight, when FE receives information that the aircraft is in-flight.

Opens an Impact Summary window listing all impacts accumulated during an individual flight. The Aircraft ID is listed at the top left of the window. Each column can be sorted by clicking the column header. Current impacts tracked are FAA Delay, FCA, Reroute, Volcanic Ash, and SIGMET. See Event Manager for more information regarding events.

Click to see a sample Impact Summary

Opens a save window that indicates the location where the image was saved, the file format, color, and map window. Click to see the Save Map Image window.

Opens the Save Map Image As window. Parameters for captured images can be set for image size, sending an image via E-mail and HTTP, and creating a new file name for identical images without overwriting in Fe.ini File -> General.

Click to see the Save Map Image As window.

Opens the Manual Diversion Recovery Priority window.

Opens the Send Fast Track Link window.

Puts the Sabre FliteTrac program in the foreground and highlights the selected flight.

Sabre FliteTrac must be running on the same PC for this to work.

Note  Available for authorized Sabre account.

Puts the Sabre Dispatch Monitor program in the foreground and highlights the selected flight.

Sabre Dispatch Monitor must be running on the same PC for this to work.

Note  *Available for authorized Sabre account.

Allows formatting and sending of an ACARS message to a selected plane via the Sabre system.

This feature requires a DLL from Sabre Inc. and will be dimmed if not installed in the Flight Explorer directory.

Note  *Available for authorized Sabre account.

Displays the Sabre Properties window.

This option only appears if the query DLL file is present in the Flight Explorer directory. Please contact Sabre Inc. or Flight Explorer support for more information. Not available in all editions of Flight Explorer.

Note  *Available for authorized Sabre account.

Text in brackets is set by the Desktop Interface application.

Note  *Available with authorized Desktop Interface features account.

Text in brackets is set by the Desktop Interface application.

Note  *Available with authorized Desktop Interface features account.

Expands where you can choose:

• Go to Flight Plan Manager
• Show all flight plan routes
• Show flight plan roue variants

Expands a menu where you can choose:

• Request ACARS Position Update - opens the Request Position from ACARS window letting you know that the request was made for the place.
• Set Frequency for ACARS update - opens the Set ACARS position update window where you can modify the update time for the plane.

Note  To receive this data, users must also be ACARS Manager customers. To set this feature up, contact customer support.
Customer Support must enable the rights to the account in order to see this feature.

ACARS position report introduced 14.2

Displays the owner and registration information as registered with the FAA.

Available for flights tracked by registration number.