ATC X - schedule

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All the planes that are scheduled for your area of competence are listed in a table:

Each row of the table refers to a plane; the information is stored into columns.

• The rightmost column is labelled Entrance. It indicates how much time must pass over before a plane becomes available, i.e. it enters in your area of competence. The time is expressed in minutes and seconds. If this column is empty, then the plane is already available (as the first four planes in the figure above).
• The second column from the right is labelled Fuel. It indicates how much time (in minutes and seconds) you have to lead the plane to its final destination before it runs out of fuel. Usually this time is reasonably high, but shuold you run short of it, let the plane exit from any border of your area of competence before it crashes because no fuel is left in its tank. Planes that are not yet available do not show any data in this column.
• In the middle of the table there are two columns labelled In and Out. They indicate from where the plane will enter (when the time in the rightmost column goes down to zero) and to where you are supposed to lead it before it runs out of fuel. The in and out points may be any of the eight cardinal points (N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE, SW) followed by a one-digit number indicating a quota, or an airport (AP) followed by its one-digit identification number.
• The columns named D: now and D: cmd indicate the direction (that's what that "D" stands for) and quota of the plane. The D: now column is where the plane is currently heading, the D: cmd column is where the plane si going to head after it has completed the execution of the last command you gave it.
• The leftmost column indicates the status of the plane, according to the following table:
  

  	Nothing to report: the plane's condition is normal. The row in the table is displayed in black.
  :	The plane is not yet available: its entry time hasn't reached zero yet. The row in the table is displayed in grey.
  ^	The plane is ready to take off from an airport. The row in the table is displayed in blue.
  *	The plane is in danger: either it is flying through clouds or over a restricted area or too near to another plane (a near miss). A flashing danger sign appears on the radar near the plane. The row in the table is displayed in red.
  =	The plane is heading to its final direction. The row in the table is displayed in green.
  #	The plane is heading to its final direction but is also in danger. The row in the table is displayed in red.

• The second column from the left simply indicates the kind of plane: J for a jet, P for a propeller and H for an helicopter. This is important since they move at different speeds.