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Preflight Settings - Task

Task

Here you have the possibility to define flight tasks. A common description about tasks is to find here.

Window description
In a list overview you can see all defined tasks by you. Select a task entry and click the button Show to see the details of that task. In the type column you can see the assigned taskpoint figures to the taskpoints as little red icons.

In the upper line you can see different boxes. In one of them you can enter your true air speed TAS you want to fly. Also wind direction and wind speed can be entered. Both values are identical with the manual wind values, which you can set in Preflight Settings - Wind. That means, you can change the manual wind also via this configuration page.

If TAS and wind speed are greater than zero they will be included in the task calculation. In this case you can see under the column TH (true heading) the course to be flown to reach the next target. In the other case the column is named TC (true course). That means wind speed or TAS are zero. If wind triangle calculation fails, you will also see the column TC (true course). In such a case wind correction angle (WCA) and ground speed (GS) are set to a dash.

If you leave the menu with the OK button, the selected task is treated as to fly now. In this case the task is drawn on the map.

Automatic task point switch
Precondition is, you have selected a task before and you are now in the map view. Open the task view by touching the To box in the upper left corner of the map display. To activate the automatic task point switch, you have to press the Start button in that view. That sets the selection to the begin point of the task. Alternatively you can select any other point by hand. But note the difference. The Start button will always select the first approach point of a flight task whilst in the task view you can select any point. If you could not touch a task point line, sector or circle you must select by hand the next task point. There is no automatic switch done to the next point as some GPS devices are doing.

If you select the first approach point already on ground and move faster as defined here, the automatic switch to the next task point will become active. If you pass the line or approach into the sector or circle described by the task point switch radius, the next task point is selected automatically. The common task point switch behaviour can be configured in Settings-Task. Furthermore you have the possibility to edit every taskpoint in the task editor and to overwrite the common assigned taskpoint behaviour.

Task management
A selected task can be removed or edited by clicking on the related icons in the right upper corner of the window. If you want to define a new task, click on the plus icon. This will open a new screen, where you can select point data from a toggle list to be used for task definition. Use the arrows for moving up/down of task points or to the change the order of the task points.

Furthermore you can edit single taskpoints by selecting them and pressing the pencil button to change their data, the assigned task figure, the values of the task figure and the auto zoom flag. A modified taskpoint is marked with a yellow background in the type column of the task display. Modified taskpoints or the whole task can be reset to the configuration default values, which are defined in Settings-Task, with the Brush button.

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