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Waypoint Names, Task Waypoints, History Waypoints
A unique waypoint is identified by having at the same time unique:
• name
• coordinates
• type (airport, outlanding, turnpoint)
Several waypoints can co-exist having the same name, but different attributes, as long as they
have different coordinates or type.
If two waypoints differ only for altitude, or other minor details, then the already existing one will be used,
and the latter will be discarded.
Loading a task file, will also load embedded waypoints for the task, adding them to the internal list.
LK8000 is comparing these waypoints inside the already existing waypoints loaded from files.
If a waypoint is already existing, with the same name and attributes, it will be used in place of that inside
task file. Normally from the user point of view there is no apparent difference.
However there is a small difference: task waypoints, even if modified, will not be saved to file.
Task waypoints, if not existing already, will not be saved to history as well.
In other words: task waypoints are considered temporary, and part of a task file.
They won't survive a software restart, unless of course you reload the same task.
But until software restart, they will remain in memory and they will be selectable in waypoint lookup, in
nearest turnpoint pages, in history, in commons.
Even if they have the same name! So be careful: whenever possible, do not use the same
name for different waypoints.
If you are using names such as START, FINISH etc. remember that loading several task files
will NOT delete internally old waypoints until software restart.
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any task lines (normally at the bottom of the file) will be removed.
MAX number of characters in radio Frequency field is 15, anything over 15 will be considered an
error and NOT used
MAX number of characters in Code field is 15, anything over 15 will be considered an error and
NOT used
Comments are truncated at 150 characters
Waypoint names are truncated to 30 characters, although they are printed differently depending
on device screen resolution, normally around 10 chars.
LK8000 v1.22 USER MANUAL
- (c) 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda
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