Managing Route Analyzer

Check here to allow selected routes to be displayed on the desktop, then select for this particular sheet or all sheets. This must be checked to be displayed.

Check here to make labels visible. This must be checked to be displayed.

Check here to make Points and Rings visible. This must be checked to be displayed.

Indicates that Current Sheet routes have been selected. Click to enable if not already selected on the Route Analyzer tool.

Select one or all of the following:

• Company Routes
• Preferred Routes
• Code Departure Routes

Enter the flight origin code in this text box. *Optional

Enter the flight destination code in this text box. *Optional

Click to apply all the selected filters.

This tab appears as Flight Plan Manager if you are a Flight Plan Manager customer and integrated.

Enter the flight origin code in this text box.

Enter the flight destination code in this text box.

A list of all "Avoidance" type drawing objects created in Tools, Features, and Settings -> Drawing Objects or by pressing Manage Drawing Objects on the Tools toolbar and selecting Create. *Only used in the Desktop Interface Tab.

Press this button to retrieve flight information from the Desktop Interface. The name of the button is reset with the customer service name. Example: "Request Route from A###" The ### is filled in by the settings from the customer's registered desktop interface application. *Only used in the Desktop Interface Tab.

Enter the flight origin code in this text box. *Optional

Enter the flight destination code in this text box. *Optional

Click to import the information from a group.

Check here to allow selected routes to be displayed on the desktop, then select for this particular sheet or all sheets. This must be checked to be displayed.

Indicates that you want the route labels to appear on the map. the labels will not appear if this is not checked. You can then modify how the labels appear on the map by going to the Route Analyzer Options window by click Options at the bottom of the window.

Indicates that you want the waypoints to appear on the map. The waypoints will appear in the route.

Indicates that you want to make Points and Rings visible. This must be checked to be displayed.

Worksheets are used in both the Database Tab and the Desktop Interface Tab. Each column can be sorted in ascending and descending order.

Click to select one or many routes.

Describes the type of flight.

The name of the route. This can be user defined or the default, which is, Origin-Destination-Sequence for routes and ACID+Sequence# for Analyze Route for a flight. A Route ID can also be used from a 3PDI route.

With Flight Plan Manager integration, this column shows:

• Callsign
• RouteID
• Variant Number

Enter the originating 4 character airport code.

Enter the destination 4 character airport code.

Displays routing sequence numbers, a 1 or 2 character ID when there are multiple routes between the same origin and destination airports. This column displays the planned, scheduled, and active states, of a particular flight, when selected on the Plane Context Menu. 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.
• FE - An option to use an available route provided by Flight Explorer.

It is advised that unique start and end points be provided when implementing partial routes to ensure the most accurate decoding of the route (i.e. lat/lon waypoints).

Shows the overall distance of the route.

Shows the estimated time en-route.

Depicts the time that the route was received.

Double-click to open the Route Editor and select a color for this particular route.

Displays the routing codes. The route length maximum is 2000.

Click to place check marks in all the available routes.

Click to remove all check marks.

Select a route, make any changes, then press Save/Print Image. The Save Map Image As window appears.

Keep the location for the saved file as shown in the Save in: drop-down directory or change to a preferred location.

Enter a new name or use the name that is created in the File Name drop-down box. The created name uses identifiers previously selected. You can define fixed parameters for the image size and numbering in the FE.ini File -> General section.

Select the image type (.png or .jpg) in the Save as type: drop-down box.

Select a color from the Color drop-down box.

• No Change - does not change the color
• Grayscale - changes the image to different shades of gray
• Non-black to White - changes all non-black colors to white
• Non-white to Black - changes all non-white colors to black

Select the map to be used from the Map Window.

• Active Window
• Window 1
• Window 2
• Window 3
• Window 4

Press Save to save the image.

Press Cancel to return to the previous screen without saving.

Press Print to print the image. When printing the main Flight Explorer screen on a black and white printer, you will achieve better results if your User Defined View is set up using a light background in shades of gray.

Press E-mail Image to send an image using the locally installed or default e-mail client. The Mailto address is left blank. The Subject line is filled in with "Flight Explorer map image" as the label and the attachment line is filled in with the file name that was created for the image file. Click any line to make changes

Press Save via HTTP to save an image using a predetermined HTTP url. The URL can be specified in the FE.ini File -> General section.

Click to open the Route Editor.

Click to open the Groups folder to designate a location to export information.

Click to remove all the routes from the active sheet only.

Click to remove all the routes from all the sheets.

Click to compress the Route Analyzer Tool. This is a more compact version of the tool that allows some functions such as sorting. Press again to open Route Analyzer to the full version.

Click to close the Route Analyzer Tool.

Click to open the Route Analyzer Options window.

Deletes the selected route record.

Opens the Route Editor to allow changes.

Duplicates the route and places into the same sheet.

Copies the selected route to Sheet 2, 3, or 4.

Moves the selected route to Sheet 2, 3, or 4.

Copies the route to the user's clipboard.