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Hi there,

even if myself did not encouter severe issues within Germany yet there are some very bad vibrations on SD chart accuracy especially in Italian and German charts. Compared to physical ones there is a deviation between for example location of CTRs/ED-Rs/VFR routes and so on thus you cannot rely on that.
You can find more detailed info in a German forum of the very well known magazine "Pilot und Flugzeug" unfortunately only in German language:
https://www.pilotundflugzeug.de/forum/2014,01,31,21,3039439

It is worth reading it because many German pilots are building their opinion upon that and the most important thing of a moving map is accuracy in charts. I think articles like this one prevent thousands of potential users subscribing to SD. Therefore please focus on accuracy instead of features as the tool from that perspective is leading egde so far...

Having that said I will always compare my tracks against physical charts and will report any inconsistence.

Cheers,
joseffe
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Hi Tim,

you are completely right! They refer to wrong relations between roads/motorways and other visual references to the aeronautical data. I would agree that aeronautical data is correct but as it is a tool designed primarily for VFR flights it would be of paramount impartance that "outside" matches the moving map or vice versa. Even if the aeronautical data is correct I would like to know for visual reference whether a CTR boundary could be mapped along a motorway or not.

As I said: Although SD is not for road navigation it is always helpful in VFR missions to have a very close matching between display and reality, that's what they are talking about.

Don't get me wrong, I really like SD but one should know about the limitiations and I think the accuracy of all beside aeronautical data is this kind of limitation.

Cheers and sorry for ambigous explanation,
Oliver
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