Tag Item FCOPX/ADES

Suprojit Paul (1351391)

Would it be possible to implement a tag item that displays FCOPX and if no FCOPX is detected it will hide the FCOPX field and display the ADES and vice versa. So traffic that is exiting the FIR would have the FCOPX displayed and traffic landing in the FIR will have the ADES displayed.

We are trying to simulate the system used in the UAE and this is how the tags are set up IRL (picture examples below taken from this video)

Juha Holopainen (839337)

This is exactly how the plugin's FCOPX field works already

Suprojit Paul (1351391)

I see. I'm not able to get this work with our current set up. For aircraft landing in the FIR, the tag simply shows FCOPX (screenshot below).

Would you be able to help me here? This is how the tag is set up currently, I'm using the FCOPX Topsky tag item. Outbound traffic is displaying correctly but inbound traffic is not. I would like it to display the destination inside the FIR instead of the FCOPX.

Juha Holopainen (839337)

I don't have the documentation available right now, but there's a chapter in the developer guide that lists some settings that should be set when creating a new setup. One or more of them are used to define the airports in your area, and the information is then used for example by this tag item.

Suprojit Paul (1351391)

Ahhh got it. The setting was Airspace_AOR_Airports=OM

However, now I seem to have another issue. The tags are now showing the first three letters of the destination airport in the FCOPX item. So for example "OMD" instead of "DB". I'm not able to figure out how to fix this.

I have the following settings configured in the Settings file.

Label_COP_MaxChars=3 Label_FCOP_MaxChars=3 Label_ADES_MaxChars=2

So the way I want to set it up is for a FCOPX fix such as "MEMTU" the label should show the first three letters, so for example "MEM" and for the destination FCOPX the last two letters so for example "DB".

Would it be possible to have an option to facilitate this?

Mengqiu Liu (1478665)

Suprojit Paul (1351391)
You can rename the COPName in .ese file, as EuroScope document.

For example, in Taipei FIR, real EuroCAT-X also use three letters to indicate COPX.

FIR_COPX:*:*:SULEM:*:*:L_SECT:ZSA_L_SECT:25000:25000:SLM
FIR_COPX:*:*:SULEM:*:*:L_SECT:ZSA_H_SECT:29000:29000:SLM

In that case, you don't have to set Label_COP_MaxChars=3 and it could also display MEM. But for ADES display, I guess maybe it can only display first two letters such as OM. Hope this suggestion could help you.