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### Preflight Task

Here you have the possibility to define your flight tasks. The window is split into two subwindos. In the upper window you can see all defined tasks by you. Clicking on a task entry will select it and display the details in the lower window. In the upper line you can see different spin boxes. In one of them you can enter your true air speed TAS you want to fly. Also wind direction and wind speed can be entered. If TAS and wind speed are greater than zero they will be included in the task calculation. In this case you can see under the column TH (true heading) the course to be flown to reach the next target. In the other case the column is named TC (true course). That means wind speed or TAS are zero. If wind triangle calculation fails, you will also see the column TC (true course). In such a case wind correction angle (WCA) and ground speed (GS) are set to a dash.

If you leave the menu with the OK button, the selected task is treated as to fly now. In this case the task is drawn on the map. To activate the automatic task point switch, you have to select in the task view the first approach point by hand. Alternatively you can use the shortcut key b to do that. But note the difference. The shortcut key b will always select the first approach point of a flight task whilst in the task view you can select any point. If you could not touch a task point sector or cylinder you must select by hand the next task point. There is no automatic switch done to the next point as some GPS devices are doing.
If you select the first approach point already on ground and move faster than 35 Km/h the automatic switch to the next task point will become active.

If you approach into the sector described by the task point switch radius, the next task point is selected automatically. The task point switch behaviour can be configured in Settings Sector.

A selected task can be removed or edited by clicking on the related icons in the right upper corner of the window. If you want to define a new task, click on the editor icon. This will open a new screen, where you can select waypoints, airfields and outlanding points from a toggle list to be used for task definition. Use the arrows for moving up/down of task points or to the change the order of the task points.

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