User Manual AirNav® Systems LLC www.airnavsystems.com AirNav RadarBox™ 2007 Manual © Copyright AirNav Systems LLC 2007. All rights reserved. The information contained in this document is subject to change without prior notice and shall not constitute a commitment on the part of AirNav Systems.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 1. Welcome AirNav RadarBox Welcome to the most Advanced Real-Time Radar Decoder AirNav RadarBox is the closest you can be to real world aviation without leaving your chair thanks to next generation Radar decoding. By decoding ADB-S (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) radar signals, you will be able to see on your computer what real Air Traffic Controllers see on their screens in Real-Time.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 1.1.
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AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com traffic controllers will then be able to "see" the positions of air traffic in the vicinity of the aircraft, and this may be used to provide an ASAS (Airborne Separation Assurance System). Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems may in the future also make use of "ADS-B in", supplementing the existing TCAS collision avoidance system by what is called 'hybrid surveillance'.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 2. Getting Started 2.1. Installation AirNav RadarBox 2007 - Installation The AirNav RadarBox system is made up of two distinct parts. The hardware and the software. You will need to install the software first and only after that hardware setup will be performed. Follow the below steps to properly install the system and start tracking real world flights in real-time on your computer.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com "No, not at this time". Click "Next". 4. Under "What do you want the wizard to do?" select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)". Click "Next".
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 5. Select "Search for the best driver in these locations" and then select "Include this location in the search". Browse for the folder that contains RadarBox drivers. It is located on a folder named "drivers" that is inside the folder where AirNav RadarBox software has been installed. The typical location of drivers would be "C:\Program Files\AirNav Systems\AirNav RadarBox 2007\Drivers". Click "Next". 5.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 6. If the window below appears select again the RadarBox driver folder, usually located at: "C:\Program Files\AirNav Systems\AirNav RadarBox 2007\Drivers". Click "OK". 7. That's it! The hardware has been installed successfully. Click the "Finish" button. 2.2.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com AirNav RadarBox 2007 tutorial is a group of step by step instructions that will guide you through the most important application features. Note: information between [...] means that the command mentioned can be found in AirNav RadarBox 2007 Menus. Example: [Tools|Internet|Download Updated Data Now] points you to click on Tools menu, Internet topic, Download Updated Data Now subtopic.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 4- First task: you will center the map at your home location, zoom in and save it as your default map. To center the map at any location let's use the "Locate" feature. It easily centers the map on any airport, city or navigation facility all over the world. Imagine you are located near London Heathrow Airport. Enter "EGLL" on the locate box. This box it at the top of the main screen as on the screen shot below.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 7- All map functions are located on the map menu or on the map toolbar on the top of the main window. You can also right mouse click over any map to access map functions in a faster way, including setting you home location. On these menus there are several map layers that you can choose to be hidden or visible.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 9- On the top right of the RadarBox interface notice the hardware connection status. You can monitor here if the hardware is properly connected to your computer.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 3. Hardware 3.1. Hardware Lights Hardware Lights In this section you will find the meaning of the three hardware lights (LED) that your RadarBox hardware contains.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com White LED: Blinks anytime there a mode-S signal is received from an aircraft and decoded with success. The more this LED blinks the more information is received from aircraft. In highly congested airspace areas this lights will be on 95% of the time! During the test period the development team has received more than 50 mode-s messages per second.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 4. Tasks 4.1. Connecting to AirNav RadarBox Network Connecting to AirNav RadarBox Network Introduction AirNav RadarBox Network is a unique feature that enables to view data other RadarBox users are receiving all over the world. It is the first worldwide flight radar flight data ever developed. You are experimenting new technology never used before.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com • Route: origin and destination airports and sometimes stops Connecting to the Network To connect to AirNav RadarBox network you need to have your RadarBox hardware connected to your computer. After this open the RadarBox Interface if it not already open, go to the Network tab and check the "Get flights from RadarBox Network" check box. Watch on the bottom of the RadarBox Interface panel, the connection status.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com What details will I see for each flight? All the flight details received from AirNav ACARS Decoder will be shown on the RadarBox Interface, ACARS Tab.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com This VHF digital transmission system, used by many civilian aircraft and business jets, can be likened to "email for airplanes," as the registration of each aircraft is it's unique address in the system developed by aeronautical radio giant ARINC (Aeronautical Radio, Inc.). Traffic is routed via ARINC computers to the proper company, relieving some of the necessity for routine voice communication with the company.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com ACARS mode: 2 Aircraft reg: .N651UA Message label: H1 Block id: 4 Msg. no: D89B Flight id: UA0978 Message content:#DFB89 0 0 0 661 147 47 A6F003980000080000D2A0000000000000000000002A3 B4F4039C8000080000D2A0000000000000000000002A3 1440 950 536 -----------------------------------------------------------[05/08/1997 22:42] In this series of two messages, we see a takeoff (TO) engine performance report.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com Waypoints are shown in the lefhand column, just below the OUT and OFF times from IAD. OUT refers to doors closing on the aircraft at the gate, and OFF refers to time of departure as outlined above. ETAs at the waypoints along the route are shown in the middle column, requested/expected flight level next and fuel remaining figures are shown in the right hand column. ACARS mode: 2 Aircraft reg: .
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com One of the most important features of AirNav RadarBox is that you can program the software to trigger alerts for certain circumstances. For example, you can have the program to automatically send an email message when British Airways flight 272 is received. The Alert feature can be accessed on the RadarBox Interface. If it not shown open it at the program's menu [RadarBox | Interface | Show/Hide].
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com There are three types of alerts • Play a Sound: a sound is played when an alert is triggered. The sound file can be specified using the browse key • Show a notification message: a windows notification window opens on the bottom right corner of the screen • Send an email: an email is sent to a specific email address Note that you can use wildcards to specify conditions.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com How to send a report 1- Select Data to include in the report First you need to specify the data range for the report. Do this by selecting the date range for the report. Check the "Only new entries" check box if you want the report to have only aircraft received for the first time. 2- Generate the Report Click the generate report button. Once the report is generated you will need to specify what you want to do with it.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com You can subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/ 4.5. Using Filters Using Filters You can choose what to see on the maps. This is done using the filters utility. It can be accessed on the filter toolbar that appears on the top of the application main screen. Advanced filters are also available by clicking the "Advanced" filter tool button.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com Type 'LAX' on the origin filter white box and click the 'Origin' button. 'LAX' is the airport code for Los Angeles. • Example 3 - show only activity for London Heathrow: Type 'EGLL' or 'LHR' on the airport filter white box and click the 'Airport' button. 4.6. Monitor Airport Movements Monitor Airport Movements It is now very simple to monitor all arrivals and departures from or to a specified airport.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 5. Menus, Windows and Toolbars 5.1. Working with Maps Working with maps AirNav RadarBox 2007 new graphical approach gives you the chance to use one of the most sophisticated map interface currently available in any flight tracking application. Map functions are available through the map toolbar, or by using your right mouse button over a map.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com Overlapped labels will be moved or sized for label overlap avoidance. 5.3. Shortcuts Shortcut Keys AirNav RadarBox 2007 use can be easier by using shortcut keys. F1 – Opens help file in the appropriate topic F9 – Automatically avoids Flight Label Overlap F10 – Automatically avoids VOR/NDB/FIX/Airport Label Overlap ESC – Opens Full Screen Mode 5.4. Toolbars 5.4.1.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com Items to locate include: • Airport • VOR • NDB • FIX • City To locate an item type the item name on the locate white box and then click the Locate button. If more than one item matches the a drop down window will appear for you to select the correct item.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 5.5. Windows and Panels 5.5.1. RadarBox Interface 5.5.1.1. MyFlights MyFlights and Network Tabs This is probably the most important place of the software. On this tab you will view detailed information on each flight being received. The MyFlights Tab shows local flights received by your hardware. The Network Tab shows flights received worldwide by other users hardware On the top you have a Quick Filter function.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com • • • • • • • • • • Altitude: Altitude in feet GS: Ground Speed in Knots IAS: Indicated Airspeed in Knots (rarely available) Hdg: Heading VRate: Vertical rate in feet/minute Company: Airline Name Route: Origin/Via/Destination in ICAO (4 letter) code Flying Over: Region the flight is overflying Latitude Longitude You may choose which columns are seen on the grid on the Preferences panel.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com MyLog is a unique feature where you can maintain a list of all received aircraft. In other words it's your received aircraft collection. On the top you can use any of the quick filters available to easily look at data. The Explore Photo Folder button opens the folder where aircraft photos are stores in Windows Explorer.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com One of the most useful features of AirNav RadarBox is the possibility of receive an email message, a Windows note or playing a sound each time a specific aircraft, flight id, airline, etc is received. This is accomplished in the Alerts Tab. Detailed information on how to setup your custom Alerts can be found at Creating Alerts 5.5.1.5.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com Using the Reported feature you can share with your friends details on which aircraft you are receiving with AirNav RadarBox. To properly use this feature you have to generate a report. Do this by selecting which date range you want (Today's entries or Yesterday's entries) and then click the Generate button. Then you can opt to save your report (by copying it to the Windows clipboard or by saving it to a file).
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com AirNav RadarBox comes with 4 accurate aviation tables. • • • • Aircraft Routes Airlines Airports You can browse, search and edit database settings using this Window. On the bottom left of the Database Explorer Window the total number of records on the current active table is shown. 5.7.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com You can customize the way you want the application to work. This is done in the Preferences Windows accessible thought the File menu.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 5.8. Menus 5.8.1. File File Menu Screen Shot: Create, Save, Share and Explore Screen Shots. Recorder: Reads a Filter file saved in a file and loads it into the active view. Learn more Database: Saves the current Filter file to disk using the current Filter name. Learn more Preferences: Opens the preferences window. Click here to learn more Exit: Closes AirNav RadarBox 2007 5.8.2.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com You can select which data you want to be seen on the map. For more information on filters, please read the Using Filters section. New Filter: Clears the filter being used and creates a new one. Open Filter: Reads a Filter file saved in a file and loads it into the active view. Save Filter: Saves the current Filter file to disk using the current Filter name. Save Filter As: Saves a filter in a specified file.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com Everything Set Map To: Quickly pans and zooms the active map to a desired location. Open/Save: New, Open and Saving map functions. All other map functions are self explanatory. More than 500 thousand map features are available, aviation and non-aviation related. For more information on AirNav RadarBox 2007 maps please go to Working with maps. 5.8.4.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com In this menu you can access the most important AirNav RadarBox 2007 features. Interface: Choose to wether the RadarBox Interface should be visible and where on the screen it you want it to be placed. Visible Tab: Quick access to RadarBox Interface tabs. Network Account Information: Information on your account usage. An Internet connection is required. Explore Photo Folder: Browse your photos in Windows Explorer. 5.8.5.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com Contents: Opens Help File Contents. Online Support: Get support in less than 24 hours using our online support ticketing system. AirNav Systems Online: Check for program updates and news. Check for Updates: If you are connected to the Internet, click here to download program patches/updates. Welcome: Opens the AirNav RadarBox 2007 Welcome Window. About: Opens the program about box with author information.
AirNav® Systems – World Leader in Flight Tracking and Monitoring www.airnavsystems.com 6. Registration and Logon 6.1. How to Order How to Order To buy AirNav RadarBox 2007 please visit AirNav Systems web site at http://www.airnavsystems.com and click on the "Buy Now" link on the top. There are several ways to order from Online Order with a credit card, to phone and FAX. 6.2. Logon Window Logon Window When you start AirNav RadarBox 2007 you will be presented with a Logon Window.
FCC Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Note: The manufacturer is not responsible for ANY interference, for example RADIO or TV interference, caused by unauthorized modifications to this equipment.
