Slight problem wit the new version, and the multi leg plan.


I started at my home airfield, then to another airfield, which I flagged as Land Here. Then to another - also Land here. Then made sure I had the thirdfield selected and clicked on my home airfield. It then created a new leg from the 2nd airfield to my home airfield.

Oops!

This is the latest - 3.1.0.0 on Windows 7.

Any thoughts?

Hi,

i can replicate what you did - you actually clicked on A again as it is indicated in the text highlighted when you clicked C
please validate .. do NOT click A with you normal mouse click, but with the right mouse click (two fingers on the mousepad), so the menu on A opens up. as you do this and select "append to route" all is well.

the reason is simple that you activate leg A to be being active and not leg B to C by clicking on A again.

here is what I exactly did to replicate this on SD v3.1.0.0 on Win8.1

click on first airport A and "start new route"
click second airport B and "append to route"
click third airport C and "append to route"
click second airport B and select "land here"

with this all three airports get the orange circle with the yellow dot and to be a takeoff or landing location
at that moment also the first route from A to B is active, showed by the dark magenta line.
if you now click on A again to select "append to route" it happens as you describe, and a route back from B to A is added (works actually as expected and designed).
if you, as you wrote, select the second route B to C as active by eiter clicking on the leg or on B or C (dark magenta line switches from A to B over to B to C) and then click on A simply leg A to B becomes active again. if you now select "append here" again it is exactly as you describe

if you instead of a standard click on A do a "right click" on A, so the contextual menu opens straight away, you can select "append to route" and all is as you would have expected and a new leg B over C to A is created, as B is "Land here" - C is a switched back to waypoint, as the route does not end here anymore and A becomes now also a "land here" mark

it is also reflected in the virtual radar and A to B are an own leg, as well as B over C to A is the other.

Please validate.

@Tim - not sure how you really could fix this, as you may want to continue to make the "clicked" waypoint "active" and with it the existing leg. The only way I can currently see this could be made smother, is to change the current instructional text from "Now click another waypoint to extend your route from here." to "Now right click another waypoint to extend your route from here.".
Potentially you could extend the dialog of the "clicked" waypoint if a "land here" mark was set during planing and add the question when you append the waypoint a second time "where to append", but tat could be quite some work.

P.S> the print center question is very valid and a) print center needs a better highlighting witch leg you are currently printing as well as either a selection box, where you can select witch legs to print or at least to jump between the legs (little mockup attached)

Hope this helps
Markus

cct,

your other workaround is as I explained .. instead of simply click on A to "append" do a "right click" with your mouse on A.
This opens the context menu from A, but does not activate leg A-B.

with this you can plan exactly as you want it in one shot, the way of the "clicking" is the factor. straight click as normal reactivates the first leg, hence you see your problem. 

but as AlanM stated, the best way is to plan all your legs in one large track, then go back and add your "land here"s - you are also then able to check takeoff time and validate fuel consumption. With this you single legs are not just simple separate routes, but also full individual flight plans , witch you might also want to individually submit.

there is no way in Print Centre to currently print either all legs at once or switch between legs ... but its definitely a requirement.
right now you need to leave Print Centre, activate the next leg and go again to Print Centre, and so on.

But in general multi-leg planning is absolutely great

Cheers
MjK