One of the useful things about the Garmin 192 Nearest  button is that you can quickly get a bearing and therefore a radial and distance to nearby airports when asked by ATC for this information. (Not much radar in Africa!)
In this respect would it be possible to change Sky Demon's "Direct to" to show the actual bearing rather than points of the compass?

SD's Direct To function provides an exact compass heading to steer to reach your new destination. Alternatively, if you require a bearing/distance without invoking the Direct To function, then may I suggest that you use the Ruler function which will provide a bearing to/from any selected point on the chart, distance to/from and fuel required.

Mike
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I agree with Steve.  When I use the 'Direct To' feature, I want to see the bearing to my new waypoint clearly displayed. It is true that the bearing is displayed near the compass rose but the figures are tiny - I need to put on glasses to read the information. The bearing needs to be included as an option in the Instruments menu so that it may be displayed in big numbers at the top of the screen along with GS etc.

I and others have requested this (see earlier posts under 'Where's the Bearing') but SD refuses to entertain the idea despite the fact that every other GPS ever made has this most basic of features.

A scenario for you - you have just taken off from Tete, Mozambique temp 38 degC, humid as hell and you bouncing about in the thermals  at 1000 ft ASL. The ATC then asks what radial and distance you are from them....no time for fiddling with two fingers to invoke ruler. However, it would appear that your VNAV function on the PLOG can possibly cover ATC's wishes as they would only call for one if there is a VOR at that station.

If ATC ask you for that information out of the blue, there is no way you're going to get it without some finger fiddling. Either to dial in the VOR, or invoke the ruler, or use SkyDemon's Waypoint Tracking feature to keep a constant eye on it.

That's it! Great! If you use the waypoint tracking feature on a VOR it automatically gives you the Radial and distance - just what I am looking for. Many thanks!