Settings - A/C Labels
Settings are available from X-Plane's menu: Plugin > LiveTraffic > Settings.... The "Aircraft Labels" section allows to select, which information will be shown in the yellow labels with the aircraft.
Setting | Default | Description |
Show in which view | All Enabled | Show labels in external views (i.e. outside the cockpit), intern views (while sitting in the cockpit), VR, and/or on X-Plane's internal map? |
Max Distance | 3nm | Show labels for aircraft which are this far away from the camera at maximum. |
Cut off at Visibility | Enabled | Current visibility can be less than Max Distance due to weather conditions (see X-Plane's weather settings, top right corner). With this switch on, aircraft labels are not displayed for planes beyond current visibility range. When it is off, the label would still show, even if the actual plane is hidden in fog our clouds. |
Just select the information you want to see. The label is put together in the order as listet here, static data first, then dynamic, top down.
Field | Example | Content |
​ | ​ | Static Information: |
ICAO A/C Type Code | A388 | Unique, ICAO-defined identifier for the type of aircraft, like A388 or SR20. See the ICAO DOC8643 aircraft type designators for a list. |
Any A/C Id | ​ | The first non-empty field from the following list: Flight Number, Call Sign, Registration, Transponder Hex Code which happen to be exactly those fields used in an a/c search in the a/c info wnd. |
Transponder Hex Code | 3C65AB | Unique identification of an individual plane, or, strictly speaking, its transponder. Used throughout many database for airframe identification. |
Registration | D-AIMK | Tail number |
ICAO Operator Code | DLH | ICAO-defined identifier of the operator of the aircraft, often an airline. |
Call Sign | DLH773 | Call sign used in radio communication. For airliners this often gives away the flight number (here: LH773), but this is just convention and no guarantee. |
Flight Number | LH773 | Flight number. This is community-maintained data from the tracking data and might be inaccurate. |
Route | BKK-FRA | Departure and arrival airports. This is community-maintained data from the tracking data and might be inaccurate. |
​ | ​ | Dynamic Information, updated every second. Note that all this data refers to LiveTraffic's modeling. This is supposingly close to reality, but not real. |
Flight Phase | Cruise | Current flight phase like Take Off, Climb, Cruise, Approach... |
Heading | 310 | ...in degrees. Note that LiveTraffic does currently not distinguish between track and heading in flight. |
Altitude | 34000 | ...in feet. |
Height AGL | 32435 | Height above ground level in feet. |
Speed | 432 | knots over ground. |
VSI | -450 | ft/min vertical descend (negative) / climb (positive) rate. |
The last section defines the colour of the aircraft labels:
Setting | Default | Description |
Dynamic by Flight Model | Disabled | Label colour is defined by the Flight Model and may vary per aircraft: By default the model defines: Huge Jets: red Business Jets: light blue GA and smaller: green all others: yellow |
Fixed color | Enabled | One colour is defined for all labels. If this is selected you can define the fixed color next: |
Pick any color | FFFF00 (yellow) | Clicking on the first color square you can redefine the fixed color used. Or you can pick one of the default colors offered to the right. |
