13. Legend¶
By default, all speeds are given in knots, distances in nautical miles,
altitudes and elevations in feet. The units can be set to imperial or
metric in the dialog Options
on Units.
Colors, size and text labels of some map elements can be changed in the
dialog Options
on Map Display. This legend shows the
default values.
Heading and course are suffixed with °T
for true course or °M
for magnetic course.
13.1. Mouse Clicks¶
The display of a map feature class will be enabled if you use on of
these mouse clicks. A Shift+Click
will enable display of range
rings, for example. A second Shift+Click
into the center (active point)
will remove the range rings.
You can enable or disable visibility in menu
View
-> User Features or the toolbar.
A click in the map on the active spot of a feature like a range ring removes it. The cursor changes to a hand symbol to indicate an active spot which allows to remove a feature by click or remove/edit it in the context menu.
Mouse | Description |
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Single Click |
Show information about all features around the cursor position. |
Double Click |
Zooms to the clicked feature and shows information. |
Shift+Click |
Add or remove range rings or navaid range rings. |
Alt+Click |
Start great circle line measurement or delete measurement line. |
Ctrl+Shift+Click |
Add or edit an userpoint. |
Ctrl+Alt+Click |
Insert airport, navaid, userpoint or position into the nearest flight plan leg. |
Shift+Alt+Click |
Append airport, navaid, userpoint or position to flight plan. |
Wheel |
Zoom in or out. |
Shift+Wheel |
Zoom in or out in small steps. |
Ctrl+Wheel |
Increase or decrease map details. |
13.2. Key Commands¶
You have to activate the map window (i.e. click into it or press the key
F2
) before you can use the keyboard shortcuts.
Key | Description |
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Cursor keys | Scroll the map. |
+ and - |
Zoom in and out. |
* and / |
Zoom in and out in small steps. |
Alt+Left and Alt+Right |
Go forward or backward in the map position history. |
Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- |
Increase or decrease details. |
Ctrl+Home |
Go to home position. |
Ctrl+End |
Go to center for distance search. |
13.3. Highlights and User Features¶
Symbol | Description |
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Center of the home position. |
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Center point that will be used for distance searches. |
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Shows map center. Useful for
Click and Center navigation
mode. Also shows map navigation
click/touch areas if enabled. |
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Flight plan with distance,
direction and magnetic course at
each leg. Displayed values can be
changed in dialog Options on
tab Map Display 2. °M
and °T indicate magnetic or
true course, respectively. |
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Flight plan procedure leg with the same information as above. |
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Active flight plan leg |
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Wind direction and speed at flight plan waypoint. See chapter Winds Aloft below for details about wind barbs. |
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Flight plan departure position on airport. Either parking, fuel box, helipad, water or runway. |
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Top of climb point with distance
from departure.
Can be disabled in menu View
-> Show Top of Climb and Top of Descent |
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Top of descent point with
distance to destination.
Can be disabled in menu View
-> Show Top of Climb and Top of Descent |
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Range rings labeled with
distance.
The number and distance of the
range rings can be changed in the
Options dialog on page
Map. |
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VOR or NDB range rings labeled with ident and frequency. Color indicates Navaid type. |
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Great
circle
distance and course measurement
line indicating length and true
heading at start and destination.
The two heading values will be
equal for small distances. For
shorter distances length is also
shown in feet or meter.
The width of distance measurement
lines can be changed in the
dialog Options on page
Map Display 2. The labels
can be changed in the tree view
on the right side of the
same page. |
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Measurement lines starting from an airport or navaid have the same color and additional ident and frequency labels. Course will consider magnetic variation of a navaid. |
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A highlighted airport or navaid selected in the search result table. |
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A highlighted airport or navaid selected in the flight plan table. |
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Highlighted positions of a procedure leg in the preview. Small circle show from and large circle to position. |
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Thin circle shows the recommended or related navaid of a procedure leg. This can be a VORDME for a DME arc approach leg for example. |
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This shows the related position on the flight plan when hovering the mouse above the elevation profile. |
13.4. Logbook Preview¶
Direct connection between departure and destination as well as flight plan preview and flown trail is shown for selected logbook entries. Any of the above can be disabled in the logbook search context menu.
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Airports and great circle path between departure and destination for a logbook entry selected in the search result table. Label shows departure, destination and great circle distance between airports. |
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Flight plan preview as stored with the logbook entry. Waypoint names and flying direction indicated by arrows. Note that complex procedures are not visible. |
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Flown user aircraft trail stored with the logbook entry. |
13.5. Compass Rose¶
Line thickness can be changed in dialog Options
on the tab
Map Display 2.
The colors for flight plan leg course and heading indicator depend on
settings for active flight plan leg which can be changed in the dialog
Options
on tab Map.
Symbol | Description |
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True north. |
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Magnetic north. |
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Distance circles and marks from user aircraft if connected. |
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Solid line shows aircraft track in degrees magnetic if connected. |
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Dashed line shows aircraft heading if connected. |
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Magenta line segment shows the course to next waypoint of the active flight plan leg. Hidden if no flight plan loaded. |
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Heading indicator. Shows the heading that has to be flown towards the next waypoint of the active flight plan leg considering cross wind. Hidden if no flight plan loaded. |
13.6. Aircraft and Ships¶
Symbol | Description |
---|---|
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Current user vehicle if connected
to the flight simulator. Labels
vary and can be customized in
Options on the page
Map Display. The user
aircraft depends on selected
aircraft (jet, piston/turboprop
or helicopter). |
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User aircraft on ground or ship. |
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Aircraft carrier and frigate (X-Plane only) |
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Needle showing the current ground track of the aircraft. Aircraft nose shows heading. |
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User aircraft trail if connected to the flight simulator. |
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Wind around the user aircraft with direction in degrees magnetic and speed. |
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AI or multiplayer aircraft.
Labels vary and can be customized
in Options on the tab
Map Display. The symbol
depends on aircraft type (jet,
piston/turboprop, helicopter or
ship). |
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Online network aircraft/client. Labels vary and can be customized as above. |
13.7. Airports¶
Airports having control towers are shown in dark blue others in magenta. Add-on airport names and idents are shown italic and underlined throughout the whole program. Airports that are part of the flight plan have a light yellow text background.
The symbol is shown smaller if an airport has no runways. This is the case for some add-on airports that use another techniques like photo scenery to display runways.
Symbol | Description |
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Airports with hard surface runways longer than 8,000 ft or 2,400 m. All runways longer than 4,000 ft or about 1,200 m are shown. Only for lower zoom distances. |
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Airports with hard surface runways. White line shows heading of longest runway. |
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Airports with soft surface runways. |
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Empty airports shown in gray. No taxiways, no parking spots and no aprons. |
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Seaplane base having only water runways. |
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Military airport. |
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Heliport having only helipads and no runways. |
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Abandoned airport. All runways are closed. |
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Airports that have fuel available. |
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Add-on airports are always
highlighted independent of
Force Show Addon Airports
or not. You can disable this in
the options dialog on page
Map Display by unchecking
Highlight add-on airports . |
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Weather at airport. See chapter Airport Weather below. |
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Airport label showing name,
ident, ATIS frequency, elevation,
lighted runways (L ) and
length of longest runway. The
text labels for an airport can be
changed in the dialog Options
on the tab Map Display. |
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Airport runway overview shown before the full airport diagram when zooming in. |
13.9. Procedures¶
See chapter Procedures for more detailed information on all the legs.
Symbol | Description |
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SID, STAR, approach or transition leg for flight plan and in preview with distance, direction and magnetic course at each leg. |
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Missed approach leg for flight plan and preview. |
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Dotted line indicates circle-to-land or straight-in part of a procedure leading to a runway end. Here part of flight plan. |
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Vector leg indicating course to an initial fix. Here part of flight plan. |
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Manual leg. Fly according to ATC instructions. Here shown as preview. |
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Leg to alternate destination. |
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Gray yellow filled circle indicates a procedure point which is not a navaid but defined by course and/or distance from a navaid, an altitude restriction or manual termination. |
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A black circle indicates an overfly waypoint. Can be a procedure point or a navaid. |
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The Maltese cross highlights the final approach fix or the final approach course fix. |
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Prefix GS is not an altitude
restriction but an indicator for
the ILS glideslope altitude. Can
mean at or at or above . |
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Fly a heading, track or a hold until manually terminated by ATC. |
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Intercept the next approach leg at a course of about 45 degrees. |
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Procedure leg that is terminated when reaching the given altitude. |
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A fix defined by a course or heading and distance to a navaid. |
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Turn to intercept a radio navaid radial. |
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This fix is defined by a heading or track which is terminated by reaching a DME distance. |
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Intercept a course to the next fix at an angle of about 45 degrees. |
13.10. Airport Diagram¶
Runway, taxiway, helipad and apron colors indicate surface type. White is used for an unknown or invalid surface type given by an add-on developer.
Symbol | Description |
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Runway with length, width, light
indicator (L ) and surface
type. |
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Runway end with ident and magnetic heading. |
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Displaced threshold. Do not use for landing. |
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Overrun area. Do not use for taxi, takeoff or landing. |
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Blast pad. Do not use for taxi, takeoff or landing. |
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Taxiway with name and center line. |
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Closed taxiway. |
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Semi transparent dotted aprons and taxiways indicate that no surface is drawn. It might use a photo texture or simply the default background. |
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Tower. Red if a tower frequency is available. Otherwise just view position. |
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Fuel |
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GA ramp with parking number and heading tick mark. |
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Gate with number and heading tick mark. Second ring indicates availability of jetway. |
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Cargo ramp |
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Military combat parking or cargo ramp. |
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Helipads. Red text indicates medical helipad. Color indicates surface. |
13.11. Elevation Profile¶
The colors and symbols of the elevation profile follow the style of the main map as set in the options dialog on tab Map Display. Colors, patterns and symbols for airports, navaids, procedures, active and passed flight plan legs are the same. The profile display also follows other map settings like visibility of flight plan line, aircraft and aircraft trail.
Symbol | Description |
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Ground with departure elevation on the left and destination airport elevation on the right. |
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Flight plan altitude. |
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Top of climb with distance from departure. |
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Top of descent with distance to destination. |
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At altitude restriction of a procedure with waypoint name. |
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At or above altitude restriction of a procedure. |
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At or below altitude restriction of a procedure. |
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At or above and at or below (between) altitude restriction of a procedure. |
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Minimum safe altitude for flight
plan. This is elevation plus 1,000
ft rounded up to the next 500
ft. The 1,000 ft buffer can be
changed in the dialog Options
on the tab Flight Plan |
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Minimum safe altitude for a flight plan segment. The same rules apply as to the minimum safe altitude for flight plan. |
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User aircraft if connected to the simulator. Labels show actual altitude and climb/sink rate. |
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User aircraft trail if connected to the flight simulator. |
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ILS slope. Label shows ident, frequency, magnetic heading, glideslope pitch and DME indication if available. Only shown if an approach is selected and runway end has an ILS. Opening angle has no relation to actual slope precision. |
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Visual Approach Slope Indicator. Label shows slope pitch and VASI type. Only shown if an approach is selected and runway end has a VASI. Opening angle has no relation to actual slope precision. |
13.12. Airport Traffic Pattern¶
Color and indicators depend on user choice in Traffic Patterns dialog.
Symbol | Description |
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Downwind leg of airport traffic pattern with altitude and magnetic course. |
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Final leg of airport traffic pattern with runway and magnetic course. |
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Arrow and dashed line shows path for pattern entry. |
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Dashed line and arrows show path for pattern exit. |
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White circle is active point at the runway threshold of the pattern. Mouse cursor changes above and allows to remove the pattern in the context menu. |
13.13. Holding¶
Color depends on user choice in holding dialog.
Symbol | Description |
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Holding fix, magnetic and true
inbound course, time for straight
leg and navaid ident (LBU ).
Ident is only shown if holding is
attached to navaid. True course
display depends on options. |
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Magnetic and true outbound course, speed and altitude as given in the dialog. True course display depends on options. |
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Active point and holding fix. Mouse cursor changes above and allows to remove the holding in the context menu. |
13.14. MORA Grid¶
The minimum off-route altitude grid provides an obstacle clearance altitude within an one degree grid. The altitudes clear all terrain and obstructions by 1,000 ft in areas where the highest elevations are 5,000 ft MSL or lower. Where the highest elevations are above 5,000 ft MSL terrain is cleared by 2,000 ft.
Symbol | Description |
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MORA grid. Large number is 1,000 ft and small number 100 ft. Example here: 3,300, 4,400, 6,000, 9,900 and 10,500 ft. |
13.15. Airport Weather¶
13.15.1. Flight Rules¶
Symbol Color | Description |
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VFR. Visual flight rules. |
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MVFR. Marginal VFR. Visibility equal or below 5 statue miles or lowest ceiling at or below 3,000 ft. |
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IFR. Instrument flight rules. Visibility below 3 statue miles or lowest ceiling below 1,000 ft. |
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LIFR. Limited IFR. Visibility below 1 statue miles or lowest ceiling below 500 ft. |
13.15.2. Cloud Cover¶
Symbol | Description |
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No clouds. |
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Few |
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Scattered |
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Broken ceiling |
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Overcast |
13.15.3. Wind¶
Symbol | Description |
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No pointer indicates wind below 2 knots. |
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Pointer without wind barb shows wind below 5 knots from north-west. |
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Short barb is 5 knots wind. |
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Long barb is 10 knots wind. |
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50 knots wind. |
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Example: 25 knots. |
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Example: 65 knots. |
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Example: 15 knots steady wind (black) gusting to 30 knots (red). |
13.16. Winds Aloft¶
Symbol | Description |
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No pointer indicates wind below 2 knots. |
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Below 5 knots from west. |
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Example: 25 knots. |