Navigation / Controls in PATHy 1.0


Double click PATHy application to start it up.

You will see the splash screen. Clicking on the splash screen
inits the loading of the data.


Once the data has been loaded you see the statistics for a few seconds, then the screen closes and the two main windows appear.

The hurried ones can click “Proceed” to skip the waiting.

Back To HabakukSoft

1) What is PATHy
2.) Requirements
3.) Registration
4.) Tutorial
- Installation
- Navigation / Controls
- Exploring the windows
- Centering the map
- Measuring distances
  /headings
- Planning a flight
- Using airports
- Using VORs and NDBs
- Adding legs
- Printing the MFD
- Printing the flight plan
- Saving the flight plan
- Working with maps
- Planning VFR flights
5.) Download / Updates
6.) Support

Exploring the main windows

The left most window is the empty flight plan list. It is
titled “FlightPlan”. Here will the numeric leg data appear,
and it is from this window that you can save and print the flight
plan.

STEP 1 : File the flight
Your first step in flight planning will always happen in this window, as you first type in the trip name, pilot in command, aircraft callsign, average fuel consumption of this aircraft, and the proposed departure
time and date.

At the bottom of the window you see four empty fields. Here
you will appear the calculated total time, distance and burnt fuel
for the legs you have selected (if you have supplied speed and
average fuel consumption values).

At the very bottom of the window, you find the “Print Plan” and
“Save file” buttons. They do exactly what their caption suggests...

The right most window is the map window. It’s title is “MFD”
(for Multi functional display).

The top part of the window is covered with the display zone.
Here you will see the airports, and here you will work if you
want to “paint” legs, instead of selecting them.

At the bottom of the page you find many buttons and switches.
We will discover all the knobs and switches during our tour.

Far left are the center field, the zoom popup and the scroll
arrows. All these influence the display coordinates.

Left of the middle you find a row of check boxes. Selecting or
deselecting them decides over what is getting drawn. The uppermost checkbox is separated - it is the switch to activate manual leg planning. More about that later on (VFR flights).

Right of the middle you find a couple of empty edit fields. This is
where you enter the leg waypoints, if you don’t draw them.

And to the far right, you find some functions behind push
buttons. Printing does exactly this, “New Plan” deletes the currently active flight plan, and starts the planning process all over again.



The arrow buttons let you scroll the displayed area.

>> You can scroll the map with the arrow keys too!
(Mac only at the moment)

In the zoom popup menu you select the zoom level. The value you select represents the number/fraction of degrees that are displayed on x and y axis.

Selecting 1 means you get a display of 1 * 1°. You can zoom in to 0.1 degree - and zoom out to 180 degrees.