Flight Range Area Targets Tool

Use the Flight Range Area Targets Tool, which is an Aviator plugin, to create a range ring, defined as one or more area target objects, from the "flight range by time" data provider. Click Create Area Target(s) to generate the area target objects that you have defined for the selected aircraft.

Aircraft Data

Select the aircraft object that you want to evaluate from the initial drop-down menu, and define the altitude and airspeed that you want to use to determine fuel consumption. You can use the Reserve Fuel field to define the amount of the aircraft's total fuel that will be held in reserve and excluded from the calculation of the range ring.

Select Start measuring from current position to compute the range ring from the aircraft's position at the current time in the scenario; otherwise, the rings will be computed from the aircraft's position at the beginning of its currently defined mission.

Area Target Data

Click the Color field to select the display color for the area targets that the plugin will create. If you have constellation objects in your scenario, they will be listed in the Add to constellation(s) list; you can select them to add the area targets that the plugin generates to one or all of them.

The Polygon Mode is a control that allows you to favor performance speed or fidelity in the computation of the area target boundaries; Smooth mode will compute the most boundary points, while Fast mode will compute the fewest.

Select Single Area Target Mode to create a single range ring; otherwise, enter the number of area targets to create in the Area Target Count field and enter a time in the Interval field to define the spacing between each ring. Select Assign Display Intervals to automatically set relevant display times for each area target that the plugin creates.