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TerrainSafe for Planning


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Ulrich Weber
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When planning a new trip‌ I frequenty find myself flying around with Simulator just to have the beautiful visibility that TerrainSafe offers. I live near the mountains and it's often hard to see with the normal map how wide valleys at a certain altitude are and which valleys are well connected to each. Just the other day I went from Munich to Basel and had to find a good route under Zurich CTR. 
W‌ould it be possible to enable TerrainSafe in planning mode as a simple overlay? This shouldn't be too much work since it's already implemented and it would make planning so much easier. 
T‌hanks! 
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Tim Dawson - 6/26/2018 12:04:14 PM
I am happy to confirm that this feature will be available in planning mode from the next version of SkyDemon.

Great news.
I‌t's not planification related, but I discovered one of the other tool I fly with implements ‌terrain safe (or whatever its name) differently, by taking the vertical velocity into account. In short, it gives you an advanced warning of what the terrain will look like if you don't change anything. I use it when flying mountains because of the massively increased situation awareness it provides.

I‌t gives an answer to 2 questions:
-‌‌ Can I espace this dead-end if I keep climbing this way or do I need to switch to plan B now?
-‌‌ Am I safe diving here this way (considering it's my only choice)?

J‌ust mentionning while you work on it... 

M‌‌

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