Both values are entered as degrees and decimal minutes, so north 50 degrees, 7 minutes and 30 seconds would be entered as N55 7.500, West 3 degrees 24 minutes would be W3 24.000, and East 12 degrees 10 minutes and 6 seconds as E12 10.100 - try not to get east and west confused - it seems to be a common error! From Plane Plotter V4.7.9 onwards, you can design your own graphic for your home location. You will be presented with a dialogue box, where you enter your latitude and longitude.
You can enter a marker for your home location by using the Options, Home location. How do I enter my home location, and use my own symbols? There is a tutorial here about calibrating maps: It's an animation that you can watch over and over again until you get the hang of it!Ĭan I add vector outlines on top of a chart? You can use your own maps and charts, but you will need to calibrate then before use.
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If the two files appear to have the same name and no extension, be sure to turn on Windows Explorer's display of file extensions - instructions here: When you have the two files, you can use the Plane Plotter File|Open chart. Be sure to copy both files to your Plane Plotter charts directory (Options, Directories, PP Chart files - tells you where this is, also discussion here). Please note that two files are required for a chart to work in Plane Plotter - both an image file (chart.jpg, for example) and a corresponding calibration file, which has the same name but a.
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There is an animated tutorial here showing how to load maps and how to zoom around. That will give you mapping and you can then zoom/move around the map and then press Map again for a new map best matching the current scale (i.e.
The easiest way to start is to press the Map button. A thin line in the same colour as the label, joins the aircraft symbol to the displaced label. If you are troubled by the superposition of labels, you can use this feature to re-arrange them. If you place the cursor over an aircraft, hold down the shift key and then left click and drag, the label for that aircraft will be displaced accordingly.
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