The Mission Window

The Mission window is used to define the aircraft's route when STK's Aviator capability has been selected as the propagator. The Route properties page for the aircraft object transforms into the Mission window, although it remains labeled as the Route page in the properties browser. This window allows you to define the Mission that the aircraft will perform. A Mission encompasses the entire route traveled and all actions performed by the aircraft within a scenario.

If Aviator appears dimmed in the propagator drop-down menu, you may not have a license for Aviator, or it might not be properly installed. Please refer to the licensing Help topic for more information.

The Mission window is comprised of three main areas - the mission toolbars, the mission list, and the mission profile. Each of these areas is described in this topic.

Mission Toolbars

The Mission window contains three toolbars:

• Initial Aircraft Setup
• Phases of Flight
• Procedures and Sites

These toolbars enable you to define the aircraft that you are modeling and to create, modify, and delete phases and procedures. Depending on the mission element - phase or procedure - that is highlighted in the mission list, the relevant toolbar will be active and the irrelevant toolbar will be grayed out. The Update Mission button recalculates the mission and refreshes the Mission Profile. An additional button - Edit in 3D - allows you to switch to the 3D graphics window to use 3D mission editing.

Initial Aircraft Setup

The buttons on the Initial Aircraft Setup toolbar are used to define the aircraft model that will be used in the mission. For complete details of how aircraft models are defined, refer to the Initial Aircraft Setup section of the Aviator Help.

Table - Initial Aircraft Setup Toolbar

Button Icon	Name	Description
	Select Aircraft	Opens the Select Aircraft window. Use to select an aircraft model.
	Aircraft Properties	Opens the catalog properties of the currently selected aircraft model.
	Configuration	Opens the Configuration window. Use to define stations and fuel tanks for the aircraft for this mission.
	Mission Wind Model	Opens the Wind / Atmosphere Model window.
	Performance Model Wizard	Opens the Performance Model Wizard. Used to walk through the creation of performance models in Aviator.

Phases

The buttons on the Phases toolbar are used to define the phases of the mission. For complete details of how phases are defined and used in a mission, refer to the Phases of Flight section of the Aviator Help.

Table - Phases Toolbar

Button Icon	Name	Description
	Insert Phase Before	Inserts a new phase before the currently selected phase.
	Insert Phase After	Inserts a new phase after the currently selected phase.

Procedures and Sites

The buttons on the Procedures and Sites toolbar are used to define the phases of the mission. For complete details of how phases are defined and used in a mission, refer to the Procedures and Sites sections of the Aviator Help.

Table - Procedures and Sites Toolbar

Button Icon	Name	Description
	Insert Procedure After	Inserts a new procedure after the currently selected phase or procedure.
	Cut Procedures	Removes the currently selected procedures and copies them to the clipboard.
	Copy Phases / Copy Procedures	Copies the currently selected phases or procedures to the clipboard.
	Paste	Copies the phases or procedures currently on the clipboard into the mission at the currently selected location. Select Paste Phases / Procedures After or Paste Phases / Procedures Before to paste the items after or before the current location, respectively.

Other Buttons

There are three non-grouped buttons after the grouped toolbars.

Tables - Other Toolbar Buttons

Mission List

The mission list provides an overview of the mission by listing each of the mission phases and the procedures within them, in the order in which they will be executed. Phases are simply noted by their names, while procedures are noted by their site, procedure, and time. You can expand or collapse the display of the list of procedures within a phase by clicking + or - on a phase in the list. You can drag and drop individual procedures or entire phases. In addition, procedure collection files can be dragged and dropped from Windows Explorer into the mission list.

An invalid procedure in the mission list is displayed in red text. If a procedure's time field is displayed with an icon, then the procedure does not begin at the scenario epoch; the procedure is still valid.

Mission Commands

The mission list provides two extensive right-click menus of commands, one for phases and one for procedures. These menus are defined in the following tables:

Table - Phase Menu

Command	Description
Insert Phase Before...	Inserts a new phase before the phase.
Insert Phase After...	Inserts a new phase after the phase.
Rename Phase...	Opens the Phase Name window, which allows you to rename the selected phase.
Phase Properties...	Opens the Phase Properties window, which allows you to select performance models and other phase properties.
Copy, Paste, Edit	Provides a sub-menu of commands for copying, pasting, importing, and exporting phases, procedures, and performance models.
Procedure Properties	Provides a sub-menu of commands for editing procedure properties.
Calculation Options...	Opens the Calculation Options window. These options apply to all procedures in the phase.
Zoom Profile	Focuses the display of the Mission Profile on the phase.
Delete	Deletes the phase.
Update Mission	Recalculates the mission and refreshes the Mission Profile.
Tools and Wizards	Provides a sub-menu of tools and wizards.

Table - Procedure Menu

Command	Description
Insert Procedure Before...	Inserts a new procedure before the procedure.
Insert Procedure After...	Inserts a new procedure after the procedure.
Insert Phase Before...	Inserts a new phase before the procedure.
Insert Phase After...	Inserts a new phase after the phase.
Rename Site / Procedure...	Opens the Site and Procedure Name window. Use to rename the selected procedure and its site.
Phase Properties...	Opens the Phase Properties window. Use to select performance models and other phase properties.
Copy, Paste Edit	Provides a sub-menu of commands for copying, pasting, importing, and exporting procedures.
Site Properties...	Opens the Site Properties window. Use to edit the selected procedure's site parameters.
Change Site Type...	Opens the Site Configurationwindow. Use to change the site type of the selected procedure.
Procedure Properties...	Opens the Procedure Properties window. Use to edit the selected procedure's parameters.
Change Procedure Type...	Opens the Procedure Configuration window. Use to change the procedure type of the selected procedure.
Refuel/Dump...	Opens the Refuel / Dump Properties window.
Wind / Atmosphere	Opens the Wind / Atmosphere Model window, displaying the procedure wind and atmosphere models (if they have been selected) or the mission wind and atmosphere models.
Calculation Options...	Opens the Calculation Options window. These options apply to the selected procedure.
Set Time...	Opens the Procedure Time window. Use to define procedure timing.
Set Animation Time	Sets the time of the 3D Graphics window to the procedure's time.
Profile Data at Final State...	Opens the Profile Data window, displaying the end state of the procedure.
Zoom Profile	Focuses the Mission Profile on the procedure.
Delete	Deletes the procedure.
Update Mission	Recalculates the mission and refreshes the Mission Profile.
Tools and Wizards	Provides a sub-menu of tools and wizards.

Mission Profile

The Mission Profile can display a variety of data describing the mission. The default profile displays the aircraft's altitude relative to its downrange distance, but the graph can be customized to display any Flight Profile data provider with respect to time or downrange distance.The segment of the profile that represents the procedure that is currently selected in the Mission List is displayed as a bold line.

A right-click menu - available from anywhere within the profile - contains the commands described in the following table.

Table - Profile Commands

Profile Data

The Profile Data window displays mission data at the point in the mission profile at which it is invoked from the right-click command menu. The window displays all of the Flight Profile data providers, but can be sorted or filtered using the drop-down menu at the top of the window. You can view the profile data from any valid time in the mission by editing the Time field. A purple triangle is displayed in the profile to mark the point that you are viewing.

The window has a small toolbar with one menu, Actions, which provides you with several commands that can be performed on the displayed data.

Table - Actions Menu

Command	Description
Set Animation Time	Sets the time of the 3D Graphics window to the time displayed in this window.
Display at Current Animation Time	Displays the profile data of the aircraft at the current animation time of the 3D Graphics window.
Copy to Windows Clipboard	Copies the mission name, time, and all displayed data to the clipboard as a tab-delimited table.
Copy Configuration	Copies aircraft configuration data to the clipboard.
Copy Reference State Procedure	Copies all data needed to define a Reference State procedure to the clipboard.
Copy Profile Data	Copies all data needed to define the initial state of a Sequenced Climb or Sequenced Descent performance model to the clipboard.
Copy Waypoint Site	Copies all the data needed to define a Waypoint site at the aircraft's current location to the clipboard.
Relative Waypoint...	Opens the Relative Waypoint window, which allows you to calculate the bearing and range from the current aircraft location to a target latitude and longitude.

Threshold Tool

You can use the Threshold Tool to identify when a certain value is achieved by the data on either the primary or secondary Y axis. Select which of the axes currently displayed in the profile that you want to evaluate, and then enter the target value in the Find Value field. Click Minimum or Maximum to enter the minimum or maximum value along the axis in the Find Value field. Enter a Tolerance if the value that you are searching for isn't an exact value.

You can use the Find First, Find Next, Find Prev, and Find Last buttons to navigate the search with respect to the X axis; the Found Time and Found Downrange fields display the location along the X axis where the current result is located. Threshold results are marked in the profile with an orange triangle.

Click Data... to open the Profile Data window for the currently displayed result. Click Interrupt to perform a procedure interrupt at the currently displayed result.