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.
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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.
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Welt2000 Radius Filter
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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.
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Welt2000 Load Outlandings
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If the check box Load Outlandings is activated, all outlanding
sites contained in the selected region will be loaded too.
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Set Proxy
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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.
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Install Airfields
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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.
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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.