You might find the answer to your question in the PlanePlotter Help files. You can access the Help files by selecting the PlanePotter Menu option "Help..Help topics" or by pressing the F1 button in PlanePlotter at any time.
The PlanePlotter Help File has a complete alphabetical search facility so you need only select the "Search" tab followed by, say "magenta", to find the Help page that descirbes the colour coding of the aircraft symbols on the chart.
If you cannot find an answer in the Help file, there are a number of on-line support resources that may be of assitance. These resources are constantly being updated so visit them often for new hints and tips.
- There is a lively user group on Yahoo groups where you can find useful files, charts, utilities and answers to a wide range of questions. PlanePlotter user group.
- David Taylor has orchestrated an invaluable wikipedia for PlanePlotter that you will find here.PlanePlotter wikipedia. You will find information about installing and registering the program, guidance on the use of the program and suggestions about add-ons and maintenance.
- Peter Leadbeater and his colleagues in the ManTMA group have kindly created an invaluable resource for PlanePlotter users at www.mantma.co.uk/pp_support.html. You will find pre-calibrated maps and charts, an astonishing collection of outlines, and best of all, an invaluable FAQ file.
- Users in Australia may wish to visit this group of PlanePlotter enthusiasts. Australian Aircraft Monitors.
Multilateration
This tutorial describes how Multilateration in PlanePlotter works and how to set it up.
Processor load considerations
This page will help to minimise processor loading if PlanePlotter is using too much of your computer resources.
These animations show you how to perform some of the simple functions in PlanePlotter.
CombiPlotter provides you with a low-overhead means of displaying the aircraft data known to PlanePlotter on another chart view. It will plot simultaneous data from ShipPlotter, PlanePlotter, OrbcommPlotter and SondeMonitor on a single chart.
PP2GM shows you your PlanePlotter aircraft on a Google-Map display. The late, and sorely missed, Curt Deegan exercised his skill with scripting languages to extract the current aircraft displayed on the PlanePlotter chart and to display them instead on a local Google-Map presentation. This add on requires a recent version of PlanePlotter and an Internet connection for Google-Maps but it does not require a web server.
FindFlight is another of the late Curt Deegan's outstanding scripts. FindFlight uses a flight number to retrieve flight and airport details from Internet on-line databases. PP designated plane feature used to select which flight to look up and can add the result to the PP database Route field. PP Route time stamp used to update old routes. Allows changing options while running. Will look up and set reg.num. and a/c type. Manual, automatic, and unattended modes. Includes AutoZoom function. Now with mouse-over pop-up route info display.
FlightDisplay is huge script contributed by Allan. FlightDisplay interfaces with PlanePlotter to identify routes from the flightID for specific aircraft or all the aircraft in a user specifed area. FD will also download pictures of the aircraft from the internet which can be displayed on the PP display. FD can also log flight information to its own database which can then be queried. See the manual included in the .zip file for further features.
PP Outline Navigator contributed by Keith, a new add-on author, is a simple one click navigation toolbox that enables you to pan, zoom save and restore in Outline View with just one click. NOTES - requires .NET Framework version 2 (or possibly the latest version 3.5 to be safe), also PP must be running BEFORE you run this executable!
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