Navigation Commands

In this section, we will review how to have our aircraft navigate to a specific location. First, let's create an aircraft at Schiphol airport, flying to the north.

CRE KL001 B737 EHAM 0 FL150 200

For this tutorial, it is nice to see how our aircraft has been flying, so let's turn on the option to display breadcrumb trails:

TRAIL ON

This function draws lines that display the previous locations of aircraft. Let's ZOOM in on the aircraft to see if it is working:

PAN KL001
ZOOM 4

Now we have zoomed in enough that we can see the aircraft move on the screen. We see a cyan line drawn after the aircraft, indicating it's trajectory. Let's zoom out, now.

ZOOM 1

The aircraft is now flying to the north from Amsterdam, but let's give it a different task. We can use the HDG command to order the aircraft to fly a specific heading:

HDG KL001 270

This will have the aircraft fly to the west. We can now see the aircraft making a left turn in the simulation. We can also have the aircraft navigate to a specific location:

ADDWPT KL001 EHRD

This command will have the aircraft fly to EHRD airport, near Rotterdam. Note that the ADDWPT command has many more options for syntax, but for now we keep it simple. We can even add a chain of waypoints:

ADDWPT KL001 EBBR
ADDWPT KL001 LFPO

These commands will send the aircraft to fly via the Rotterdam, Brussels and Paris airports. The final route of the aircraft looks like this:

IMAGE HERE!

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