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So I'd like to suggest that the default mode is set to Mixed rather than VFR, including when using Start Again or Create Route.

I'd also like the flight rules mode to be displayed at the top of the NOTAM information page

Optional extras would be:

Global configuration option to set default flight rules

Ability to change the flight rules from within the NOTAM display page (e.g. an option on the configuration menu within that screen)

I am aware that the PC version of SkyDemon which I don't use does allow configuration of Flight Rules, even without a flight plan.

What was particularly odd was that I was sure I had seen that same NOTAM earlier in the week and without setting the flight rules at any time. The NOTAM number was 5698/20 and it expired on 31st August. It has just been replaced with 5955/20 expiring end October.

I am a huge fan of Skydemon, using it regularly several times a week, and relying on it as my primary source of NOTAMS, so it was quite a surprise to find this missing information which I only caught because it was announced on the ATIS.

Well, theoretically, people flying IFR in VMC have to maintain "look and avoid", and theoretically there will be no VFR traffic in IMC (modulo the problems of the IMC/VMC interface in F/G airspace, where VFR traffic is allowed right to the edge of the clouds). I mean "theoretically" exactly like I mean that "theoretically" VFR traffic is supposed to use "look and avoid", and "right of way from the right". In practice, I don't believe in that working, and in practice we use mostly radio calls for separation, and we absolutely don't, in E/F/G airpace, count on the regional airliner yielding to our right of way from the right. I have it from the local airline's safety manager that most of his pilots, if light GA is not their hobby/background, have no clue they are in E airspace, and no clue that they are not separated from VFR traffic; they file reports for each crossed VFR traffic. And it is good airmanship for VFR traffic near an aerodrome to at least maintain a listening watch on the aerodrome frequency, if not even make (blind) calls. The problem is their notion of "vicinity" doesn't go very far, and certainly doesn't extend to the area occupied by an IFR approach, much less a STAR or SID.

Having had to do a missed approach on final due to unseen VFR traffic crossing the extended centerline on/near the glideslope, (traffic system blaring...), I'm conscious of the problem. However, as much as I would like VFR "club style" traffic to be aware of IFR trajectories, that's a "change the rest of the world" system... Needs changing the whole training industry, and then will take generations, until after I die or lose my medical, until all pilots are the "new", aware, model. The only workable solution can come only from ourselves, not from changing the rest of the world.

Having them read the VFR enroute NOTAMs is already an uphill battle.