If you like the new ALTSYMBOL command, might I suggest something nicer than +

I give you:

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Created by the higher ASCII (ALT + 0183) aka "middle dot"

If you want a bigger one (don't we all), you can use bullet (ALT + 0149)

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Other options can be found by running "charmap" from your computer's run command.

Which leaves me begging for more...

So how do I execute such a command? Or do I alter some file?
Additional icon options
Three more options were added for mp_dotrange command: ALTICON, ALTCOLOR,
ALTSYMBOL.
ALTICON sets the maximum distance when the icon will be shown. ALTCOLOR sets the color of
the icon. ALTSYMBOL sets the one character symbol which will be shown as icon. These
settings only kick in when old style icons are not shown, i.e. when distance of COLOR, TYPE,
NAME, ID and RANGE are smaller than the distance to the aircraft.
Example:
mp_dotrange FRIENDLY DOT 25.0 COLOR 0.1 RANGE 0.1 TYPE 1.0 ID 0.1 NAME 0.1 ALTICON
2.5 ALTSYMBOL + ALTCOLOR 3
This will display a symbol "+" above the aircraft between 1.0 and 2.5 km in color 3 (green).

edit the Icons file that resides in your pilot's folder under Users.

What is the 'ICONS' file.
I only find two files under 'Users/Uriah/'
They are
QMB.ini
settings.init

OT: This is such a cool hint! Thanks a lot - it will help me much in my RL work!

Maybe this is not known to you yet? Run "snippingtool" from command.

This is so incorrect that I'm wondering if it was meant as a joke.

The icon settings are managed through the 'rcu' file.

Here is one tutorial link at Mission4Today. I've seen others over the years so it should be easy to find one:

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Knowledge_Base&file=print&kid=76&page=1

Aviar

Not incorrect. It's a new feature of 4.11 that I can see.
If you have specified icon settings in your rcu, they will be updated in the Icons file in your /users/pilot folder.
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It's there for me, anyways and gets updated each time I issue new icon commands.

Why on Earth would I joke about that?



But you have to send an initial icons command to the console (see my other thread); then this file is updated. Each and every time.

They used to be EXCLUSIVELY handled through RCU. I think they made a change to be easier to manage.

lol ya I've never known Tolwyn to be a jokester