Localizer Plane Quiz

The Localizer Plane Quiz randomly positions planes around the localizer - Figure 1.

Figure 1 - New Quiz

One of the planes is selected as the correct answer.  Then the VOR and HSI Indicators are set - Figure 2:

Figure 2 - VOR and HSI indications

The VOR and HSI indications are controlled by the Service Volume of the localizer and glide slope. Review  how the Service Volume has been implemented to assist you in selecting the correct localizer plane(s).

The Localizer Quiz Manager guides you through the quiz - Figure 3.

Figure 3 - Quiz Manager

The possible steps are:

1. New Quiz - relocates the planes and creates a new correct plane. It is possible that more than one plane will be the correct answer.
2. Select plane -  when you select a plane by clicking on it, it is compared to the correct indication.
3. Correct, there are X more answers, chose again - this will continue until "Quiz complete!"
4. Quiz Complete! - you have chosen all of the correct answers - Figure 4.
5. Show answer - will highlight all the correct answers in green - Figure 4.

Figure 4 - Correct Answer.

The Controls

• Zoom control - uses a predefined series of sizes that ranges from 40 nautical miles to 1 nautical mile for the vertical geographic dimension of the display window.

• In - pressing this button zooms the window IN. The window then shows a smaller area of geography within the same sized window.
• Out - pressing this button zooms the window OUT.  The window then shows a larger area of geography in the same sized window.

• Quiz Manager - specific details for the ILS Quiz are described above.

• Correct / Tried - shows the number of attempted and correct answers.
• Reset score - Resets correct and tried to zero.

• Setup tab - the ILS and Localizer Setup Panel provides common controls to all ILS and Localizer Quizes.

An  Example

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