Options - Plane Tool Tips

Plane Tool Tips or Plane Tags are used to establish the visible fields in Hot Tips. There can be as many as 6 tag lines that can be customized to fit your specifications.

ClosedClick to see the Plane Tool Tips Options window

Each tag line has 4 components; two text boxes marked Label and two drop-down menus marked field.

  1. Determine the line(s) that will be active by selecting the leading checkbox.
  2. Enter the title for each field in the Label column..
  3. Select the event from the drop-down menu. (Drop-down menu options are described below)

Label

Description

Space

Leaves this portion of the tag line blank.

Aircraft ID

Shows the aircraft Identification number.

Aircraft Type

Shows the aircraft type.

Alternate Dest *

A destination other than the original. Used when unforeseen circumstances cause a flight to not land at the original destination.

Altitude

Shows the altitude of an aircraft in hundreds of feet. 'T' = temporary altitude, 'C' = mode C altitude, 'B' = altitude block.

Arr Center

Shows the arrival airport.

CETE

Shows the calculated, estimated flight time enroute.

Ctrl'd Arr Del *

Shows the delay for the controlled arrival.

Ctrl'd Dep Del *

Shows the delay for the controlled departure.

Control Element *

The airport or FCA ID that imposes a delay on an aircraft.

CTA *

The Controlled Time of Arrival.

CTD/EDCT *

Shows the Controlled Time of Arrival and the Expected Departure Clearance Time. Additional information is also provided in this format, A-##/BBB.

Item

Description

Details

A-

Active

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

Planned

When the Airline files the flight plan.

Scheduled

When FE receives schedule information.

##

The day of the month of departure. Used to determine whether this is a current day flight or a flight for tomorrow.

BBB

The origin airport for the flight. Used to help differentiate between multiple flights with the same Aircraft ID.

None

Used in place of ??:?? for time if the time has just been added or removed.

Dep Center *

Shows the departure airport.

Dep Time

Shows the aircraft departure time.

Destination

Shows the Destination airport ID.

Dest Chg

An indicator that shows a change in destination.

Dest Gate*

Shows the gate number at the destination.

Dist Off Route*

Shows how far (distance in miles) the aircraft is off the planned route.

Dist to Dest

Shows distance (in miles) to the destination.

Diverting

Shows text "Diverting" to indicate aircraft that are currently diverting from their original destination.

Elpsd Snce OUT *

Shows the time elapsed since the desired OUT time was entered.

ETA (FAA)

Shows the calculated estimated time of arrival as provided by the FAA.

ETA (FE)

Shows the calculated estimated time of arrival as provided by Flight Explorer.

ETE

Shows the estimated flight time en-route.

ETE dev FR sched

Shows the deviation from the scheduled estimated flight time en-route.

ETR (FAA)

Shows the estimated flight time remaining (in minutes) as provided by the FAA.

ETR (FE)

Shows the estimated flight time remaining (in minutes) as provided by Flight Explorer.

Event Text

Shows events of the aircraft actions.

Fuel On Board *

Shows the status of the aircraft remaining fuel.

Holding *

Indicates when a flight listed as a "Holding" status. The field is active only when this condition is active.

Impact(s) *

Indicates if the flight plan is impacted due to a Reroute Advisory, Airport Delay, FCA/FEA, Weather issue, etc. This column is sorted based on priority.

Impacts (AFM) *

Indicates if the flight is impacted by only Reroute Advisory, Airport Delay, or FEA/FCA/AFP and in accordance with AFM filters

Init Delay Rsn *

The original control action that caused a delay for a flight.

Irregular Op *

Used for irregular operations.

Last Delay Rsn *

The last control action that caused a change in a delay for a flight.

Last Dest

Shows the aircraft previous destination.

Last Pos Time

Shows the time of the last position report of the aircraft

Latitude

Shows the aircraft latitude.

Longitude

Shows the aircraft longitude.

Nonctrl Arr Del

Shows the delay for the non-controlled arrival.

Nonctrl Dep Del

Shows the delay for the non-controlled departure.

Nose # *

A number assigned by the airline for a flight.

OETA

Shows the original scheduled estimated time of arrival.

OETE

Shows the original scheduled estimated time en-route.

OETD

Shows the original scheduled estimated time of departure.

Origin

Shows the Originating airport ID.

Origin Gate *

Shows the gate number of departure.

OUT *

Shows the predicted time the aircraft will leave the gate. Information comes from a Position report with the Position Type as OUT and the desired time to back out from the gate entered into the Message Time field. This sets the OUT time and sets the timer in the Elapsed Since Out field. This can only be done for Planned or Scheduled states.

PETA

Shows the planned estimated time of arrival.

PETE

Shows the planned estimated time en-route.

PETD

Shows the planned estimated time of departure.

Pos Source

Shows where position information has been obtained.

Priority *

Used to indicate flight ranking.

Reserve Fuel *

Shows the reserve fuel amount.

Route Text *

Shows the route with a buffer limit of 1000 characters and a field limit of 500 characters. It is recommended when using this field, the background should be turned off because the tag will be very large and the screen may appear cluttered.

Scratchpad

Shows up to 15 characters of text that appear on line 4 of the plane tag. For more information see Plane Properties and Plane Tags.

Sector / Desk ID *

Shows the Sector the aircraft is in and the identification of the controlling desk. This field is actually Implemented via "User Defined 1" field as described below.

Since Pos Upd

Show the calculated difference in time (seconds) between the current system time and the time of the last position update based on the "Last Pos Time" field.

Speed

Shows the aircraft speed.

Status

Shows the flight status:

  • Scheduled - Shows data, as reported to Flight Explorer, that the flight has been scheduled.
  • Planned - Shows data, as reported to Flight Explorer, that the flight has been planned.
  • Departed – Flight has departed, but has not yet reported a position.
  • In-flight – Flight has departed and has reported one or more positions.
  • Arrived – Flight has arrived at it’s destination.
  • Aged out – Flight has arrived at it’s destination but never reported the arrival to the FAA.
  • Parked - Indicates the last known position of an aircraft.

Tail # *

Shows the aircraft internal tail number. Only valid for 3PDI.

Track

Shows the ground direction of an aircraft, relative to true north.

User Defined 1 *

Shows user defined 3PDI data. The name of the field is set in the FE.ini file,

General section. This field defaults to "Sector/Desk ID" as described above.

User Defined 2 *

Shows user defined 3PDI data. The name of the field is set in the FE.ini file,

General section.

* This field requires an authorized customer data feed or is provided for My Fleet flights only.