I wasn't lying before. SkyDemon really doesn't know you're flying on a flightplan. The fact you have previously filed a VFR flightplan for a route (on that device, or any other) is not known by any particular device logged in to the same SkyDemon account.

Our planning warnings and suggestions are very different to the new class of alert you are proposing. I just don't see how and where it would fit in. You may know some other people who think it's a good idea, but unfortunately nobody else has ever suggested this. If they do, we can start thinking about the best means to make such a thing accessible.

Tim, if Skydemon is filing hundreds of flightplans every day then Skydemon must know that it is flying on a flightplan - right? I always use Skydemon to file flightplans so with the option of a reminder to close a flightplan there is no need to buy a rubber band :-). Even if one is not flying on a flightplan you could have the option to have a reminder - just like the reminder from Skydemon when making a crossborder flight and the reminder to certan countries to send a GAR.

Since a flightplan is a must when flying crossboarder the Skydemon reminder is super. What will happend if you do forget to file a flightplan when flying crossboarder - returning to home airfield, land at nearest, denied access to country, ......, ?

Worse things happen if you forget to close a flightplan, so please a reminder option. I have 4 other pilots saying the same, and they love Skydemon.

It is just a reminder - Skydemon is not to close the flightplan.

If SkyDemon knew you were flying on a flightplan, I would have no problem popping up an alert at the end saying don't forget to close it (unless you had landed in the UK, as mentioned). However we do not positively know this. I don't think there is enough of a demand for this to add an option for the pilot to tell us they're flying on a flightplan, just so that we can remind them to close it afterwards. After all, they're just as likely to forget to tell us!

The rubber band method propose above is brilliant, I think.

The notion of removing flightplan filing functionality from SkyDemon is ridiculous. Hundreds of flightplans are filed every day through SkyDemon.

Just to add to the possible confusion - there is no requirement (or process) to close FPLs when landing in UK.
So, when I fly to France (and probably other European countries), I have to remember to close them myself where no ATC service is provided (like Abbeville).
I don't fly across international borders very often but FPL closure is something I have to positively remind myself about.
I don't think SD is the right platform to provide these reminders. Perhaps your aircraft's post-flight checklist?
Tony Nowak

A friend of mine puts an elastic band around his wrist prior to commencement of a flight and removing it at the end of the flight reminds him to close his flight plan. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it seems to work for him.

Mike
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Martin's suggestion is a perfectly valid one, and, in my opinion, shifu's reply is a bit "rough around the edges". A pop up reminder to close a flightplan after landing is, to me, something I don't feel very strongly about either way. But if it were included, I certainly wouldn't complain.

-- Chris.

Sorry but after googling this issue a lot of pilots forget to close flightplans - therefore:

Please check out this link:
http://studentpilot.com/interact/forum/archive/index.php/t-14715.html

Why should Skydemon not help with that information - remember to close flightplan. If made as an option pilots that do not want the information - just do not activate the option!

Guys!
Remember that this is the - suggestion and Beta discussion - section.

If a suggestion is treated the way this have been done then new ideas will never come to this forum.

I hereby withdraw my suggestion.

I use my real name not some funny name to hide behind.

I doubt the SD team will remove functions to please a single user.

@Shifu: If you're not in the mood of cynicism today, you better read that post tomorrow.

I'm all for removing the possibility to file fpls thru SD, check notams and weather and all the like, because all of them can and should be done on the ground before taking off. All can be done thru other apps and/or websites and SD only dared to implement them for our convenience.

Eric