Christmas-Tree
Images for posterity
I coudn't get the track up in flightradar34.
I have copied the image from the bbc article and posted it here for those similarly afflicted.
I have tried to make them pprune friendly however the images are not quite as I expected. Will have to do for now.
I have copied the image from the bbc article and posted it here for those similarly afflicted.
I have tried to make them pprune friendly however the images are not quite as I expected. Will have to do for now.
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ATC Watcher,
Do you mean the pilot's HMI, or the ATC HMI? Its easy enough to design a trajectory like that in Eurocat. You just go CRTE and click the points you want. The resulting FPL message has a string of waypoints which can be named fixes or arbitrary coordinates.
Do you mean the pilot's HMI, or the ATC HMI? Its easy enough to design a trajectory like that in Eurocat. You just go CRTE and click the points you want. The resulting FPL message has a string of waypoints which can be named fixes or arbitrary coordinates.
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c coder : I was just curious how this was done .
First question is how you program the FMS ,must be lengthy I guess, or if , as I suggested it was done on a PC in an office and just uploaded on the aircraft FMS.
For the ATC, In this particular case it involved 4 ATC centers , , 3 in same country, 1 in another so it normally would need a form of flight plan readable by ATC . Unless the aircraft was under military control,(often done on test flights) then of course no detailed Flight plan is necessary. ( I can and will check that one) .
First question is how you program the FMS ,must be lengthy I guess, or if , as I suggested it was done on a PC in an office and just uploaded on the aircraft FMS.
For the ATC, In this particular case it involved 4 ATC centers , , 3 in same country, 1 in another so it normally would need a form of flight plan readable by ATC . Unless the aircraft was under military control,(often done on test flights) then of course no detailed Flight plan is necessary. ( I can and will check that one) .
It's an A380 and could easily receive an uplinked flight plan through ACARS. Even without that, it's not that big of a deal to load fifteen lat/long waypoints.
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Some more on Christmas Trees from the FlightRadar24 blog post:
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/a...ith-airplanes/
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/a...ith-airplanes/
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Back in the days of standard primary radar with video maps etched on plates, our tels engineering friends would etch some plates with Christmas scenes. Quite a surprise in the middle of the night to suddenly see the map of the LTMA become a Christmas tree!