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Settings - Airfields

Airfields

Cumulus can use two different sources openAIP and Welt2000 as airfield database. The default is Welt2000, which is also automatically downloaded, if it is missing or was updated. Welt2000 has stored all data in one file. openAIP uses one file per country. The advantage of openAIP is, that you can bring in directly your own contributions or corrections on their webpages at www.openaip.net. A little disadvantage is, that you have to define in Cumulus the counties which you want to install. The rest is done automatically by Cumulus, if you require the download.

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Source
In the source box you can select the airfield source (openAIP / Welt2000) to be used. There are different forms provided for every source. In the headline of the form you can see the link to the appropriate webpage.


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 encoded according to ISO-3166 as two letter code. Allowed separators are space or comma.

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. If the radius is zero and no country filter is defined, then a default radius of 500 kilometers is applied.

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 Runway length Filter
Here you can define a minimum runway length for the airfields or outlandings to be read in to filter out objects with too short runways. To switch off the filter set its value to zero.

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

Welt2000 - Install
Cumulus can download the Welt2000 file containing the airfield data from the relevant Internet web page.
Note, if Cumulus is in motion no download is carried out.

Welt2000 Data Reload
After a download or a change in home position or configuration, Cumulus will trigger an automatic reload of the Welt2000 data.

openAIP - Download
Enter the countries beside the Download button, which you want to download from openAIP. The country identifiers have to be encoded according to ISO-3166 as two letter code. Allowed separators are space or comma. Press the Download button to get the desired files from openAIP. If Cumulus is in move, no downloads are possible.
Updates of the files are provided in short time intervals without an extra announcement by openAIP. Therefore you should download from time to time again the airfield files to be up to date. Note! Cumulus will not do that automatically.

openAIP - Radius Filter
All airfields lying inside your home position radius will be read from the openAIP data files, which are selected on the load page.

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

Welt2000 Runway length Filter
Here you can define a minimum runway length for the airfields or outlandings to be read in to filter out objects with too short runways. To switch off the filter set its value to zero.

openAIP - Load
Pressing the Load button opens a table showing all loadable openAIP airfield files. The airfield files, dowloaded by Cumulus, have the following naming format:

<two-letter-country-code>_wpt.aip

Those names differ from the self downloaded and installed airspace files. To avoid conflicts you should remove all self installed airfield files before starting a downlod by Cumulus.
If Select all is checked, all files are loaded by Cumulus. If you want not to load all, deselect as first the checkbox Select all. Only then you can make single selections of airfield files. If you select a whole table row, you can remove the selected data file by pressing the trash button. In the headline of the table you can see the file directory.

In the List Display area you can define some general list properties applied to airfield, waypoint, reachable and other lists.

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