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Improve alternate planning


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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
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I'm shocked but not surprised about @skypainter and @ grahamb's responses. nothing really related to the SD software now, so I'll just clarify my position but agree that every pilot has their own standards and protocols. 

Sky Painter - 9/2/2019 10:50:35 AM
marioair - 9/1/2019 8:26:19 PM
So how do you know what route to take to your alternate? You memorise it? You draw it on a chart?

As I made clear at the start, the decision to divert to an alternate sometimes has to be made before arriving at your destination. In these circumstances, a planned route to your alternate is useless. So, having made the decision to divert to an alternate, I then Route Direct.


I am not disagreeing about needing to divert before DEST. However what you are saying (either explicitly or by omission of your full thought process) is that are happy just hitting direct to alternate and either blindly flying that route with disregard to any restricted airspace on that direct route. OR (i hope) you're happy to tactically navigate using SDs airspace and NOTAM warnings. At the moment, with the way SD is built, that is what you get. But I am want to be a old not bold pilot so like to have looked at the various aspects of a flight between somewhere near my DEST and my ALT on the ground, so that if I do have to invoke this I know what to expect. I would like a way of saving and planning this in SD so i dont have to either (a) find a bunch of notes to refer to or (b) hurriedly run through the NOTAMs and airspace in the air to figure out what it important and what is not

grahamb - 9/2/2019 11:11:34 AM
If people think diverting on the fly is high workload with tools like SkyDemon at our disposal, they should try doing it with paper charts and bulky flight guides full of paper plates!

Do your planning beforehand, look at your options and possible diversion routes on the ground, and a diversion with SD really doesn't have to be a big drama. 

I am not saying do the diversion using the paper charts, please read my posts. What I am saying is you can plan your diversion route before taking off using paper, SD, whatever you prefer. If you however realise you cannot do a direct to it, it would be nice to have this planned in skydemon. In other words your alternate route is not a direct but a PLANNED route from DEST to ALT. Your previously mentioned option of adding it as a destination doesn't work for reasons i have mentioned. Your option of having it as a second save route from DEST to ALT could work, but seems a bit fiddly for what would be a high workload situation
 

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Sky Painter - 9/1/2019 8:16:32 PM
marioair - 9/1/2019 8:26:19 PM
                         As I made clear at the start, the decision to divert to an alternate...
Sky Painter - 9/2/2019 10:50:35 AM
marioair - 9/8/2019 7:26:33 PM
                         @marioair You do know that in iOS you can export the validated route...
grahamb - 9/10/2019 4:00:23 PM
                             Yes I am. But how does that help? Autorouter has same limitation.
marioair - 9/10/2019 4:01:07 PM
grahamb - 9/2/2019 11:11:34 AM
marioair - 9/2/2019 12:10:04 PM
Sky Painter - 9/2/2019 4:15:03 PM
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