Airport Rings/Zoom

Item	Description
Zoom Levels	Use the slider to choose the level that buttons, labels, range rings, runways, and runway labels are visible on screen. Click the @ button to select the current zoom level. The corresponding item will be visible from the selected zoom level to the lowest zoom level (city).
Real-time Airport Status	An area where you can select how you would like the runways to appear on the map. After you make your selections here, click the Airport overlay on the main ribbon to turn on the runways. Active Runway Depiction - click to ensure that the runways appear with the configuration selected below. Departure Color - Color box where you can choose the color of the departure runway. Arrival Color - Color box where you can choose the color of the arrival runway. Direction indicator - check if you want to see an arrow that points the direction the runways are using in real-time. Note The real-time updates are only available if the FAA data is received into Flight Explorer. Once the data is ingested into Flight Explorer, then you will be able to adjust the colors as you like and see the real-time direction of the runway. If Flight Explorer is not receiving the runway data, you can change the color of the runway in the Airports window.
Range Rings	Distance rings around selected airports are configured using this option. For each airport in the selection list, range rings can be enabled individually by clicking on the Ring field.
Enable Range Rings	Turns all range rings on or off.
Line	Choose whether there should be a solid visible line with color or no line. Click the color box next to the check box if you want to change the color of the airport that appears on the map.
Fill	Choose whether the ring should be filled in with a color or have none. Click the color box next to the check box if you want to change the color of the airport that appears on the map.
Transparency slider (color density)	Decide if the color selected in Line and Fill above should be Transparent (see through) or Opaque (solid) by moving the slider left or right.
Apply To	Rings can be applied to: Selected airports ONLY - only those in the filter list All airports - those in the filter list along with Pacing, Major, Other and Non-USA airports, if selected as described above in Detail options.
Single Ring Option	Select to draw a single ring around each airport at a user defined distance from 0 to 5,000 nautical miles.
Number of Rings & Ring Spacing	Number of concentric rings (1 through 5) to draw around each airport at a selected distance. Spacing between rings in nautical miles, statute miles, or kilometers. Ranging from 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50.
True Shape and True Distance	With the True shape option, the shape is drawn accurately but radial distance may not be constant. With the True distance option, the radial distance is constant but shape may not be drawn accurately (depending on map projection).

Zoom Levels

Use the slider to choose the level that buttons, labels, range rings, runways, and runway labels are visible on screen. Click the @ button to select the current zoom level. The corresponding item will be visible from the selected zoom level to the lowest zoom level (city).

Real-time Airport Status

An area where you can select how you would like the runways to appear on the map. After you make your selections here, click the Airport overlay on the main ribbon to turn on the runways.

Active Runway Depiction - click to ensure that the runways appear with the configuration selected below.
- Departure Color - Color box where you can choose the color of the departure runway.
- Arrival Color - Color box where you can choose the color of the arrival runway.
- Direction indicator - check if you want to see an arrow that points the direction the runways are using in real-time.
Note The real-time updates are only available if the FAA data is received into Flight Explorer. Once the data is ingested into Flight Explorer, then you will be able to adjust the colors as you like and see the real-time direction of the runway. If Flight Explorer is not receiving the runway data, you can change the color of the runway in the Airports window.

Range Rings

Distance rings around selected airports are configured using this option. For each airport in the selection list, range rings can be enabled individually by clicking on the Ring field.

Enable Range Rings

Turns all range rings on or off.

Line

Choose whether there should be a solid visible line with color or no line.

Click the color box next to the check box if you want to change the color of the airport that appears on the map.

Fill

Choose whether the ring should be filled in with a color or have none.

Click the color box next to the check box if you want to change the color of the airport that appears on the map.

Transparency slider (color density)

Decide if the color selected in Line and Fill above should be Transparent (see through) or Opaque (solid) by moving the slider left or right.

Apply To

Rings can be applied to:

Selected airports ONLY - only those in the filter list
All airports - those in the filter list along with Pacing, Major, Other and Non-USA airports, if selected as described above in Detail options.

Single Ring Option

Select to draw a single ring around each airport at a user defined distance from 0 to 5,000 nautical miles.

Number of Rings & Ring Spacing

Number of concentric rings (1 through 5) to draw around each airport at a selected distance. Spacing between rings in nautical miles, statute miles, or kilometers. Ranging from 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50.

True Shape and True Distance

With the True shape option, the shape is drawn accurately but radial distance may not be constant. With the True distance option, the radial distance is constant but shape may not be drawn accurately (depending on map projection).

Airport Rings / Zoom