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RobertJan
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The moving map in flying mode has three possible orientations: North Up, Track Up, Course Up. Would it be possible to add the options East Up, South Up, West Up?

That would enable us to turn the map more or less into the flying direction while keeping the wind directions aligned with the sides of the tablet.

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RobertJan - 6/1/2020 7:51:28 PM
This lifts the burden of mentally turning yourself around on the map, which may cause errors like steering left where you should go right. 

The way to cure yourself of that is not to think 'left-right' but 'clockwise-anticlockwise' or 'increase heading-decrease heading'

Then you have a technique which works whichever up the chart is.

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grahamb - 6/2/2020 9:20:13 AM
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RobertJan - 6/1/2020 7:51:28 PM
This lifts the burden of mentally turning yourself around on the map, which may cause errors like steering left where you should go right. 

The way to cure yourself of that is not to think 'left-right' but 'clockwise-anticlockwise' or 'increase heading-decrease heading'

Then you have a technique which works whichever up the chart is.


Of course. I understand the theory like everyone else. But it's useful to adapt the software to our instincts, rather than our knowledge. Hence the idea. Thanks for the hint, though.


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