1 Introduction
Flight Progress Functions
This topic will provide a step-by-step tutorial of the Progress Functions, along with the available Integrations
We estimate that this will take 3 minutes to complete.
2 Detailed Explanation
N-Flight Planning Progress Functions
This module reviews the Progress functions available in N-Flight Planning.
The Progress
functions allow a user to track the flight, monitor flight time,
fuel, flight level, and winds. These values can be manipulated
manually, based on position reports, or automatically via
integration.
Let's begin with a flight
that has already been computed and filed.
Click
the Progress menu
item.
The system will
automatically shade waypoints expected prior to the current time.
To access the
manual update function, click on the desired waypoint in the
list.
All off-route positions are labeled with OFF in the progress list. The off-route positions are not shown on the map.
Adding an off-route position, will not affect the projected values for any other positions already in the list. The progress list will automatically refresh the actual/projected values of existing positions that might have changed for other reasons, such as ACARS reports, or other users potentially working on the same flight.
This will also update the timestamp value in the Last Updated label.The operation will also fail if a position with the same name and same time overhead already exists in the list. In this case, the following error message will be displayed in the dialog’s message bar: “A position with the same name and time overhead already exists.”
Click
the VXV+K7+V list
item.
Click
the Time overhead input
field.
The pop-up will allow manual entry of Time, Fuel, Flight Level, and Wind Component for the selected waypoint.
Enter 011530 into
the Time overhead field.
Click
the OK button.
By adding a 10 minute delay to the actual time for waypoint VXV, the system has also added an expected 10 minute delay to the "Actual" times for the subsequent waypoints.
To accommodate off-route position reports, users can enter ad hoc waypoints via the "Add" button.
Click
the Add button.
With the off-route pop-up, you can enter any waypoint within the system database, then a Time, Fuel , Flight Level, and Wind Component for that waypoint.
Click
the Cancel button.