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No! We mean BEARING to the next waypoint, not track. Why is it needed? I think I and others here have already covered that. There are many scenarios but here are just three:
Scenario1. For whatever reason, I deviate from my planned course. Maybe to avoid some weather or perhaps just to wander off and look at something on the ground. There is then little point in trying to regain the magenta line so a Bearing to the destination allows me to work out a rough heading and fly direct. As the flight progresses I want to be able to glance at the Bearing display for confirmation that my course (my track) is ok.
Scenario 2. I run into weather or have a mechanical problem and need to divert from the planned course. So I use the Direct To facility which creates a new magenta line to the selected airfield. The workload is likely to be heavy and rather than trying to slavishly fly the magenta line, I want to be able to glance at the SD display and see the current bearing in BIG numbers without having to put on reading glasses.
Scenario 3. I've flown the magenta line to my destination but I still fail to spot the little grass airfield (sound familiar, anyone?) So I fly around the local area trying the spot the strip. If I get hopelessly lost, I want to be able to glance at the SD display and see the current bearing which will always tell be which direction to look in.
I know, SD does provide the Bearing information already! But (as others have pointed out) accessing it is cumbersome and fiddly, requiring for some of us the donning of reading glasses.
It does not have to be permanent. As I have suggested before, BRG can be included in the Instruments menu so that users can choose to display it or not.
I've spent a lot of time on this topic, Tim. Trying to help you improve your product. You only have to look at this and related threads to see that BRG is a much-needed feature. In fact SD is probably the ONLY aviation GPS in existence that does not allow the user to display BRG in a useable manner!
If you feel that that gives your product some kind of exclusivity, you may wish to reconsider your decision to be different.
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