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Settings - Airfields

Airfields

Cumulus uses the Welt2000 file as the airfield and outlanding sites' data base. See here for more information.

The Welt2000 area on this menu page gives you various options for loading airfield data.

Welt2000 Country Filter
Here you can define the countries to be read from the Welt2000 file. Several countries can be entered as a list separated by commas or spaces. The country identifiers have to be coded according to ISO-3166. If you define countries here, you do not need to do the same in the configuration file of welt2000.conf. The definitions from this GUI page will override the FILTER rule in the configuration file.

Welt2000 Radius Filter
As an alternative to using the country filter, you can define a radius around your home position. All airfields lying inside this radius will be read from the Welt2000 data file. This option is only available when no country filter value is given. If the radius is zero, then a default radius of 500 kilometres is assumed.

Please Note! If the home position is too far away from the area defined by the filter or radius values, no airfield data are shown on the map.

Welt2000 Load Outlandings
If the check box Load Outlandings is activated, all outlanding sites contained in the selected region will be loaded too.

Set Proxy
Press the Set Proxy button if a proxy is needed for downloads from the Internet. This opens a dialog box where you can make the necessary host and port entries. The syntax has the following format: proxy name:port. If you do not need a proxy, all the fields should remain empty. The configured proxy is displayed to the right of the setup button.

Install Airfields
Cumulus can download the Welt2000 file containing the airfield data from the relevant Internet web page. The correct file name is important. The name has a date suffix that is changed from time to time. If the download fails, please check here for the correct file name. On the web page with the downloads, look at the last row of the download table: here the entry WELT2000.TXT is to be found. In the right-hand column is a date link. Go to this link (e.g. with "Save link as ...") and check that the suffix (in the form _YY_MM_DD) matches that of the filename in the editor field.
If Cumulus is in motion (faster than 5 km/h) no download is carried out. If the download request is processed, you will immediately receive a result message. Although this message is not logged, it can be seen as a debug message if Cumulus is started in an X-Terminal window.

Welt2000 Data Reload
After a download or a change in home position or configuration, Cumulus will trigger an automatic reload of the Welt2000 data.
In the List Display area you can define some general properties of the airfield, waypoint and reachable lists.

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