I traveled a lot the last week and used Skydemom (newest version) on my Ipad. In all previous trips I used  the Garmin 695, from now on this will be obsolete.

During this week I learned a lot more of the many features and discovered some things which I think can be made more handy:

To call for details like Pilot Log, Radio, Scratchpad Direct to you need to press the Skydemon logo and then the specific button which is a two step way and when it is a bit turbulent difficult to do. Probably solution: make the specific buttons available at the bottom of the screen, the vertical navigation strip, as this is of less use during real navigation. You can have this vertical navigation as button too. The popup screens should be away from your tracks and should disappear as soon you press on the navigation screen. Even nicer make this buttons user definable i.e. only radio and scratchpad etc.

Probably I missed something out but I miss the ICAO codes on the map?

I use the flightplan from Skydemon to forward my own plan. As I use VRP points in my plan, they are rejected because these are not recognised by the authorities. Option could be to translate these points to coordinates?

Again there is no system so complete as Skydemon!!

 

I believe we have made the selection of ICAO codes on the main map work in all chart styles ready for the next version.
We have no feature list comparing the different chart styles. In general the "national" chart styles are designed to mimic paper charts, will not adapt themselves to different zoom levels, and will not have specific drawing modes for all types of national airspace in all covered countries.
The SkyDemon chart styles are designed to adapt (sometimes subtly, sometimes greatly) to different zoom levels and have all sorts of knowledge of special types of airspace in different countries, to help ensure a consistent (and therefore safe) international depiction of aeronautical features.

Tim, I think having a slew of different chart styles only two of which offer the full feature set is counterproductive. My suggestion is to do away with them alltogether. If you want to offer different "looks" then make them all substyles of the SD chart style so that they inherit all functionality and just differ in graphical style.

-- Chris.