Hi Tim,

I'm absolutely missing a function to set horizontal and vertical scale for virtual radar!
The automatic zoom is by far not sufficient for many situations in the alps.

When crossing the alps, you often cannot fly the planned route due to cloud conditions.

After crossing the alps N->S i.e. in 12000 ft, typically a descent down to 1000 ft follows.
This area is crowded with military airspace, class D airspaces and controlzones of different airports.
Parts of the planning becomes useless and you have to do some ad hoc planning in flight in a complicated airspace structure.

But SD lets me look ahead only a few minutes, which is not enough for a 11000 ft standard descent.

Similar situations can occur during climb to higher altitudes.

Regards

Hi Tim,

Although I very much appreciate most of your replies and the way you reply, I disagree with your opinion in this thread.

Gerhard did not complain about any area of SD. He has shown a weakness of SD (in his opinion) and made a proposal to eliminate the weakness. I've always thought that's what this forum is about (besides other themes).

It is not the first time you bring forward the argument that tens of thousands of users are happy with SD as it is. How do you know? Because they don't complain or don't make suggestions for improvement? That is not the evidence for a perfectly satisfied crowd, at most the evidence for a good product with potential left to improve. Did all those tens of thousands users tell you they are completely satisfied the way SD works? What do you think how many of the tens of thousands would vote against Gerhard's request would you start a survey? I think by far not a hundred of the tens of thousands.

People often don't complain about deficiencies or don't make suggestions for improvement because they are lazy or they don't see the advantages an improvement would bring - including myself. I've been using SD now for 3 or 4 years on nearly every flight I do and I find myself reading about some really good and wise suggestions for improvement on this forum I have never been thinking about before.

So I kindly ask you to think over your decision, not to implement a vertical zooming of the VR.

Last, but not least, I'm very satisfied with your piece of software. For my needs there's no better navigation tool - not only measured by the price.

Kind regards
Eric