Introduction
Configure Flight Details pane content
In this topic, you learn how to update the flight information that displays on the Flight Details pane to help you monitor flights.
We estimate that this will take 3 minutes to complete.
Detailed explanation
Displaying flight details for listed flights
Use the Flight Details pane to configure the information that displays for flights.
Your options include:
- Flight number
- Cost index
(currently not available as GW and Takeoff Weight come from the flight plan) - Position Source
- GW
- Takeoff Weight
- Track
- Ground Speed
- Vertical Speed
- Altitude
- Flown distance (in km or nm)
- Updated
- Remaining distance (in km or nm)
Displayed Graph tabs provide graphical representations of your flight.
Tabs include:
- Altitude
- ETA
- Notes (text only)
As you learned in the User Interface Orientation topic, the flights that display in your Flight List depend on your desk assignment (configured by your N-Tracking Administrator).
For individual flights, you can add and remove data fields on the Flight Details pane independently -- to hone in on your information requirements.
Click the user name (Trainer_PF) dropdown button.
Click the User Settings menu item.
Click the Flight details menu item.
The fields that display in the Visible list are those that show in the Flight Details pane.
If you are setting up the flight detail display for the first time, the Visible table is empty.
In that case, drag your first field choice on to the first cell of the Visible table.
Click and drag the Position Source table cell onto the Remaining distance table cell.
Click and drag the Takeoff Weight table cell onto the Remaining distance table cell.
To change the order of the data elements, drag and drop the cell entries to re-position them.
Drag the Takeoff Weight table cell above the Remaining distance table cell.
Click the Save button.
Let's see how that looks on the map.
Click the Map tab.
Click the SCX746 table cell.
The fields you chose display on the Flight Details pane, in the order you set.
The opening of the Flight Details pane also causes the aircraft's flight plan to display on the map.
Click anywhere on the map.
When you close the Flight Details pane, the flight plan for flight SCX746 no longer displays.
The Flight Details pane closes and you're ready to move on to your next task or for more practice with these settings.
Let's change the graphs that display at the bottom of the Flight Details pane. In this scenario, you're logged in as an Administrator.
Do you remember the menu item to access when you want to update the Flight Details pane?
Use the User Settings menu item to access Flight details to update your display.
Click the User Settings menu item.
Click the Flight details menu item.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to work on the Displayed Graph Tabs section of the page.
Click and drag the ETA table cell onto the empty cell in the Available table.
Click the Save button.
Let's see how that change affects the Flight Details pane.
Click one of the flights (SCX8910) listed in the Flight List.
Click the SCX8910 table cell.
ETA is hidden.
Click anywhere on the map.
As you know, you can also display the Flight Details pane by clicking on an aircraft icon on the map.
For this example, click the plane icon representing flight SCX158.
Click the aircraft icon (flight SCX158).
All the configured data elements display in the Flight Details pane and the display of ETA in the lower screen is disabled.
Let's use another feature on the Flight Details pane -- the Flight Plan slider.
Click the Flight Plan slider.
Click anywhere on the map.
The flight plan for SCX158 continues to display on the map after you close the Flight Details pane.
You have learned how to tailor the information that displays in both the upper and lower sections of the Flight Details pane and how to display that pane on the map. You have also seen that you can use the Flight Plan slider to make flight plans display on the map after you close the Flight Details pane.