Additional Sort Methods

[erikquinn]

Add some additional sort methods to the sort menu:

• ETA
• Connection Time

For bonus points, if you can figure out some way to tell whether they have taxiied out and are waiting for takeoff, how long they've been waiting, that would be extra awesome. Perhaps connection location >0.5nm from current and spent >5 minutes continuously above 10 knots groundspeed? Clunky but would give delay data for Command Center a lot easier than other human-dependent estimation methods.

[KSanders7070]

Not opposed to it but can you provide a scenario where this would be of benefit?

[erikquinn]

ETA: Filter the list by a certain destination, and be able to see all the inbound arrivals, sorted by how long until they land... This way if there is an issue with routing of certain aircraft, you can immediately see the order in which you should go about getting them fixed.

Connection Time: Same idea, filter a Departure List by origin airport, and quickly see how long aircraft have been waiting on the ground. Or similarly, filter a Departure List by arrival airport, to see which origins are accumulating the largest ground delays when a particular destination has MIT restrictions in place.

It boils down to thinking about using the vEDST as a tool for TMCs and DCC, in addition to individual controller's uses. For a single controller, relatively trivial, but for a facility TMC, or a command center NTMS/NTMO, these would be very very powerful and useful.