Pan map function advice please

[bratters]

Hi guys - new to Radar Box and greatly enjoying testing it out. One question I haven't been able to resolve and could do with some help on:

I'm using pan map to track an aircraft heading for my local airport and I'm listening via my scanner to a controller giving heading and height instuctions etc.

The problem (well, more of an annoyance than a problem) is that while the aircraft is in the centre of the screen it is NOT in the centre of the compass ie. HOME. This means that a course change contradicts or at least doesn't match the (now) offset compass with the airport at its centre.

Seems to me that when using the pan map function, the aircraft needs to be the temporary HOME on the map or alternatively an overlay compass centred on the aircraft needs to be superimposed.

Hope this makes sense - any answers greatfully received.

[tarbat]

In Preferences, untick the option for "Draw Centred at Home Location".

[bratters]

Thanks for that tarbat. It works very well - though for some reason the screen centres a touch further north unticked than ticked. Maybe the Airnav guys can explain that?

Very pleased with the product overall and most impressed by the aerial. Just from a window sill it's picking up flights from Ipswich to Aberystwyth and Calais to Morcambe - presumably 40000ft at the extremes. Interesting to see how good it gets with a bit of fettling.

Thanks again.

[Blackthorn]

Try placing your aerial on a biscuit tin lid, I realise that covers a wider area than the supplied reflecter area but it improved my coverage even more.