When choosing an alternate it draws a direct to it. Is there a way to plan the alternate properly. There’s obviously too many variable as to how and when one would choose to route to an alternate. However if you’ve rubber-banded the route from your destination to alternate in advance it gives you much less work figuring out things like heights, times and NOTAMs / restricted airspace. (And not ignoring pointless notams/warnings because you’d never fly the direct route.

A diversion is a busy time so having some of the route plotted will give you an easy way of “intercepting” your diversion route, knowing you only need to worry about the bit between where you are and the diversion route

Mike
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So how do you know what route to take to your alternate? You memorise it? You draw it on a chart?

Mike
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Assessing this may take us one step closer to making SD a one stop shop for IFR planning. That and integrating autorouter.

@marioair

You do know that in iOS you can export the validated route from Autorouter and share it straight into SkyDemon, don’t you?

Yes I am. But how does that help? Autorouter has same limitation.