Sky Painter (2/10/2016)
Rikur
Pooleys plate of Llanbedr is georeferenced, if that's of any help.Thanks Mike - yes, I think I've confused two issues: the more elegant usability of the integrated vector 'plates' that I saw for Nottingham, and the fact I haven't bothered to spend the £25 on Pooleys subscription (now spent!!) and hence was limited to those in the AIP.
Back to the original point - functional as the plates are - they do still feel like a bolt on, akin to when a travel agent just uploads a PDF of their brochure to their website rather than properly building a website - it works, but could be better. That's not intended as a criticism, it's just highlighting an opportunity. SkyDemon has done a great job of transforming the en-route information and charts, and it's great to have the plates and the document browser for other docs - but I think there's something much more scope for transforming the information provided on plates for the digital world. Anything from visually showing the circuit pattern (on most of my printed plates I've scribbled an arrow showing the base-leg as a quick reminder of the circuit direction), any noise abatement requirements, where aircraft parking is, where the club house is, etc - not forgetting the ability to only show airfields with an open cafe!!.
I totally get the point about the effort of creating/maintaining these - so it would have to be an evolution of the plates that AFE or Pooleys already maintain. Given a general indifference between Pooleys and AFE, if one of them put the effort into making these a true digital product integrated into SkyDemon and one was basically just an electronic copy of a document designed for a paper age, it would sway my purchase decision.... so if one of them wants more subscriptions......