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Nesis III User's Manual
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Two nearest airfields information is shown: name of the airfield, distance
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and bearing. Green dot tells that airfield can be safely reached in a glide
mode above minimum safe altitude, yellow dot tells it may be reached,
but not above minimum altitude and orange dot tells it can't be safely
reached in a glide mode.
The glide calculation does not take terrain and wind into account. This
means that you can see green dot, but the airfield is not reachable, due
to high terrain or strong headwind.
A long touch on this area opens the nearest airfield window. Here you
can see more then just two nearest airfields.
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Side slip indicator.
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The mini engine window organizes all most important engine parameters
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into one simple colored bar based map. Each bar corresponds to one
parameter and the color of the bar to its current status.
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Terrain vertical profile window. The profile is always shown in the
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tracking direction – in the direction of the blue prediction line. The
window also shows current baro-corrected altitude. A touch on the
window makes it larger/smaller.
3.7.2
Moving the Map Around
A long-touch action on the map puts the map into pan mode. It also adds a
home button symbol on the map and remove all unnecessary elements. Once
the map is in the pan mode, it can be easily moved around. Figure 7 shows
an example.
A touch on the home button, marked as
standard navigation map.
3.7.3
Open Flightmap Association and Map Details
A large part of aeronautical information is obtained from the Open Flightmaps
Association or OFM in short. Please visit openflightmaps.org home page
for more details. The page also list the countries for which information is
available.
OFM provides quality information for airspace structure (airspace zones),
navigation points, airfield information, frequencies, transit, arrival and de-
parture routes, holding zones, traffic circuits. Some of these countries have a
3.7 Navigation Screen
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on the Figure 7, brings back the
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