Plates tab has been replaced with Airfields tab. This is mainly a reorganisation to make things easier to get to, with less scrolling, but also we've taken the opportunity to provide better access to our own data about airfields in the same tab.

When you plan a route from A to B all the enroute airfields are automatically present in the Airfields tab, of course. But you can add other airfields to that list too; just like you could with the old Plates tab except now your list of "extra" airfields is saved along with your route, so you know their briefing information will be there at the touch of a button when you fly.

This is obviously a fairly significant reorganisation but hopefully it has resulted in more information at your fingertips with less looking around to find it. The Information link for airfields from the What's Here menu takes you to the tab too. The full screen Airfield Information window hasn't gone anywhere, but it will be updated to incorporate the new approach/admin views that you'll see in the Airfields tab.

A new chart style called SkyDemon 3 has been introduced, which compared to SkyDemon 2 changes the terrain colours and reintroduces large areas of woodland. Currently woodland isn't included in the raw chart data for most countries, but we've published an update to our Germany chart which does include this data so you can evaluate the chart style. We hope to include the raw woodland data in most European charts next AIRAC update.

Thanks all.

Regarding chart styles, you do indeed lose different colours for different terrain elevations. We have mainly introduced the SkyDemon 3 chart style for central European pilots who aren't used to having those terrain colours anyway, and are accustomed to have it all white with large forested areas emphasized instead. If you prefer style number 2, please do stick with it - it's not going anywhere.

The Create button should indeed have been an Add button.

I've tried switching to an alternative presentation for the document browser, where it now appears inside the Airfields pull-out tab itself, rather than trying to be fullscreen (which was pointless). This might be a less jarring experience, and solves the UI issue pointed out above. Let me know what you think.

Hello Tim
I like the new Skydemon 3 chart stye because it resembles the DFS ICAO style, hopefully this will be available for the rest of europe soon - when flying in mountainous regions I use terrain safe anyway, so it fits perfectly. Good work as always !!!!

...some minor bugs though...

- back button under Index (document browser) is not working
- the "document browser" is only available when an airfield is present, e.g. in case updating the plates database I need to add an airfield first to get access. Should be there constantly.
- e.g. being in the Approach Information folder I need to hit the back button (hardware) three times to get back to the navigation screen, what do you think about including some back buttons here & there ??

Keep up the excellent work

-mike

Thank you that's much better.
Simon