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First of all, Sky Demon is overall a great product!

However, there is one thing that I think should be changed:
In PC-version:
When you right click on an airfield you can choose the option "information".
When you choose Information you get a description of the airfield with frequencies and runway information.
The depiction of the runway direction is not oriented relative to north, which is very confusing.

An example:
EKSJO / Ranneslatt (ESMC)

The text below the picture is correct, Runway 01/19

But the picture above the textual information shows the runway direction 280/100, which is very confusing.
If you change the orientation of the layout by 90 degrees, the runway direction will be ok, but the text will be hard to read.....

It is the same on all airfields, at least in Sweden.

I went back to an earlier version of SD (3.5.0.0), and in that version the presentation of airfield information is correct.

Skydemon is probably the only provider of airport information that doesn´t orient map (background) layouts to north.
Compare with Jeppesen layout, i e plates depicting runway direction is always on a map (background) which is oriented to north.

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Tim Dawson - 2/20/2017 10:30:39 AM
We orientate airfield diagrams either north up or west up depending upon how they'll best fit on the page, allowing the most other information to also be displayed.


But if you use landscape layout, you could have the airfield diagram on the left side, always north up, and the other textual information on the right side?

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DA40 - 2/19/2017 11:34:37 AM
Tim Dawson - 2/20/2017 10:30:39 AM
DA40 - 2/24/2017 1:58:06 PM
ckurz7000 - 2/27/2017 9:47:05 AM
Tim Dawson - 2/27/2017 10:14:14 AM
ckurz7000 - 2/28/2017 8:53:04 AM
Tim Dawson - 2/28/2017 11:34:16 AM
DA40 - 3/1/2017 10:00:59 AM
Tim Dawson - 3/1/2017 3:35:50 PM
DA40 - 3/1/2017 4:02:20 PM
                 I agree that north up should always be used.
Ian - 3/1/2017 7:11:53 PM
                     + 1
efrenken - 3/1/2017 11:20:49 PM
Martin Bech - 3/2/2017 8:15:50 AM
tnowak - 3/2/2017 8:27:29 AM
Tim Dawson - 3/2/2017 9:49:38 AM
Ian - 4/17/2017 7:14:14 PM
segillum - 4/17/2017 8:52:07 PM
ivor - 4/18/2017 10:20:38 AM

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