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Flight Path Tutorial: Step Five
Data Configuration Details
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Overlays tab provides controls for the overlay fields:
States - US state borders (Canadian Provinces coming soon).
VORs - Selected VOR stations used for locating AIRMET and
SIGMET advisories.
TAFs - Selected airports reporting Terminal Forecasts.
Counties - US county borders.
Rivers - Selected US rivers.
Wind Barbs - Wind barbs derived from RUC model output. The
density of barbs may be changed in two dimensions by clicking
on the More and Fewer radio buttons.
Grids tab provides controls for the display of gridded data.
Show Background Grid Field - Controls whether any background color-filled
graphic is shown or hidden on the map display.
Show Topography On Map - Controls whether the topography data (shown
using a brown color) is displayed or not. Multiple resolutions of
topography are available but beware the high-resolution data comprise
very large files and thus are slow to download.
AIR/SIGMETs tab provides controls for the display of advisories:
Show AIR/SIGMETs On Map - Shows or hides advisories on the map display.
This is equivalent to clicking the AIR/SIGMETs radio button on the main
map display, toggling the visibility of advisories without changing the
configuration (which types are shown).
Auto Update - Enables/disables the auto update function. If auto update
is turned on, new advisories will appear when they become available.
If it is turned off, a yellow warning will appear on the map display
when new advisories become available.
Show Heights - Displays the advisory heights.
Update Now - Downloads the most current advisories from the server. This
button must be used to get update advisories when Auto Update is turned
off.
Show/Hide By Type - Show or hides different types of advisories. Click
on a specific type to toggle its visibility.
Altitude Slider - Selects an altitude range for the displayed advisories.
By default all advisories are shown. To narrow the altitude range of
displayed advisories, drag the orange beads at the top or bottom of the
slider. Advisories which do not overlap the selected range will not
appear in the map display.
PIREPs tab provides controls for the display of PIREP data:
Show PIREPs On Map - Shows or hides PIREPs on the map display.
This is equivalent to clicking the PIREPs radio button on the
main map display, toggling the visibility of PIREPs without
changing the configuration (which types are shown).
Auto Update - Coming soon.
Show Heights - Displays the PIREP heights.
Displayed Type - Selects the type of PIREPs shown on the map display.
Only one type may be shown at a time. A legend of PIREP images is
provided to the right of the radio buttons.
METARs tab is a place-holder for the near future:
METARs are not included in the initial release of the applet.
If finished with the tutorial, close this browser window by clicking the "X" in the upper right corner of the window or choose File->Close from the File menu at the top of the window.
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