Hello, I wonder if anyone can tell me what the meaning of certain RC displays indicate. GROUND directed me to taxi to R16 but I desire R23L. Therefore with the GRD:121.90 displayed on the RC Scroll Line I hit CSN and [<01> 325^ D:022 F:117.40] is displayed. (For some reason the web site message form will not allow me to use brackets around GRD:121.90 in this paragraph. If I do I loose some of the text, when reviewed.) I hit CSN again and the following is displayed:[16: 128^ D:000 035^] I have no idea of the meaning of this cryptic notation and I never did see at the 3rd line as noted in the Departure section of the 'Runway Line Information' document. Has anyone any idea of what the mening of the above numbers mean and why I might not be getting the results that I think this document states. What am I doing wrong?Thank YouBlais Klucznik

believe it or not, the scroll bar is explained on the web site :-)the first line of the scroll bar is the comm line, shows you who the controller to talk to is, and on what frequencythe second line is the nav line<<01> 325^ D:022 F:117.40> means your first checkpoint (01) is 325 degrees from you, at a distance od 22 miles, and it's frequency is 117.40the third line will give you the available runways. scroll left and right until you find the one you want, and press ctrl-shift-y

Hi Blais,<<01> 325^ D:022 F:117.40> means the following:01 is the checkpoint number in your flight plan. In this case, it represents the first checkpoint in your flight plan.325 is the direct heading to that checkpoint relative to your current heading.D:022 is the distance (NM) to that checkpoint.F:117.40 is the frequency of that checkpoint. In this case, your checkpoint is a VOR with freq 117.40There is nifty little tool that was written for RC which displays a "control panel" in FS which eliminates the keystroke process for issuing menu commands for the RC interface. All you do is use your mouse. This tool also eliminates the need to memorize RC keystrokes. It is on AVSIM and the filename is rccp31.zip and it was written by John Hnidec.Hope this helps a little.Take care,David

Ooops, JD replied ahead of me while I was typing a response.david

Blais,The runway 16 info line should read:&l; 16: F:109.30 155^&r;Or thereabouts.Try this page for the scroll bar info: http://jdtllc.com/scroll_bar.htm

Thanks John and David, Now I understand, thanks to your clear notation, so I shouldn't be stuck with RC messages of this type anymore, I hope. I wasn't thinking along these lines because I simply wasn't aware you could view these items while still sitting dead at the gate. I assumed that the variation of possible received info was limited to what was stated in the documentation. Maybe I missed some docs along the way. There isn't any great documentation on the range of messages viewable at this juncture, at least none that I have seen yet. I guess I have plenty to learn about the, maybe undocumented, subtleties and possible strengths of RC. I'm still trying my best. Thank you Dave for the file information, its name and its location. I just hope I can reduce this level of frustration I have acquired since trying this program. This program looks so promising.Take Care Folks.Blais

it's all documented. maybe you should run through the samples/tutorials. every facet of radar contact is covered in the tutorials/samples.

Gentlemen, Thanks for your assistance but I am hopelessly giving up for this long day and morning. It is 3:41AM here in MA and I still have not concluded successfully in dealing with GRD. I simply want 5R instead of 5L and I find no way of getting clearance to taxi to 5R. I have all the documents you folks talk about plus additional ones either from the RC web site or from the CDROM. The documents do not seem to do much good as RC never quite seems to do perform the same from each clean start. It appears to me that the program isn't strictly repeatable in the sequence it follows even though I use exactly the same keystrokes each time. It is this inconsistency that leads to the confusion. I have written down exactly the keys I have depressed, the correct ones according to all this documentation, but after x-number of steps (always the same sequence of keys) the end display will vary. I do thank you folks but I'm tired and will put RC on the shelf for now. Enough frustration.Good early morning to all.Blais

you can't ask for a different runway, until ground tells you to taxi to a runway, does that help?