Preferences

The preferences screen allows you to customize the way METOC data is displayed in the MPM.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is an unclassified manual, so we cannot put real numbers here. Operationally, these preferences would be initialized to their optimal settings, and changes would only be necessary in extreme/rare cases. For example, if testing/operations proved that the missile could fly through higher winds than the defaults, the mission planner would be able to modify the MPM to allow the missile to fly through those higher winds without reporting an error or coloring his route red.

• Route Coloring
  • Surface Tailwind Speed (KTS) and Angle (Deg)
    The MPM draws a circle around the target based on the winds at the dispense altitude. Each arc of the circle is tested to determine whether the missile would have a tailwind if it approached from that angle. For example, the image below shows that the missile is approaching from a good angle, because it's passing through a green arc. The red arc on the northern end of the circle shows that coming in from that angle would cause the missile to dispense into a tailwind. The numbers you put in the yellow and red boxes for this parameter determine the colors on the approach circle. In the example preferences screen above, any surface tailwind greater than 10 Knots will cause a yellow arc on the circle, and any surface tailwind greater than 20 Knots will cause a red arc on the circle. The size of the arc is determined in the Angle field.
    
    
    
    
  • Flight Level Wind Speed (KTS)
    The MPM draws the route color-coded by flight-level winds. The image below shows a route with red and yellow sections at higher altitudes and green as the missile approaches the target. With the preferences example above, this would mean that the winds along the red sections were above 40 Knots, and the winds in the yellow sections were above 30 Knots.
    
    
    
    
  • Cloud Base
    Not yet used.
  • Visibility at Target
    Not yet used.
  • Precipitation
    Not yet used.
  • Icing
    Not yet used.
  • Turbulence
    Not yet used.

  
  

• Overlays
  This is not yet operational. When it is, the MPM will display an overlay on FalconView for each of the checked parameters. We are working on creating translucent displays, those which allow the background image to be visible while displayed.

James Eanes
Daniel H. Wagner Associates