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VFR cruising altitudes in the Flight Details window


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Hi!
Over in the SD User Europe FB group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1515060015215635) there is a discussion going on to better have a altitude preselection of x-thousands +500 ft when flight rules are set to VFR.
I believe this is a good idea and should be tested in Beta..
To clarify: if you tab the Flight Details badge two items of importance can be preselected:
The first one: flight rules (in this case set to VFR..)
and the second one: "Cruising Level". When tapping that a column of preselected altitudes will show up, starting at 1000ft, then 2000 ft, followed by 3000ft and so on...
However, when flying VFR, it´s not a good idea to select these altitudes as SERA.5005 (g) and Appendix 3 state that you should fly at 3500 ft rather than 3000ft or 5500 ft rather than 5000ft - FL75 rather than FL70.
So I suggest to replace the preselected altitudes 1000, 2000, 3000 and so on by adding 1500 and 2500, then to replace the Thousands by 3500, 4500, 5500 and so on.
All the best,
Björn

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Just some comments:

1.
Preferably, the picklist values should be editable:
- The present picklist values are useless for VFR and SD is primarily intended to be a VFR tool.
- I often fly in 3200 ft due to airspace C above in 3500 ft. 
- Pilots who fly VFR as well as IRF could adjust some picklist entry fields for their VFR trips (3500, 4500, ...) and some other fields for IFR (FL 90, FL 100, ...).

2. The picklist should also pop up when changing the altitude in the leg properties menu.
I need this much more often than the general cruise altitude setting in the route menu. 

3. Semi circular cruising altitudes are west-east in most countries, but Italy has north-south.
I don’t think, SD should invest in a complicated algorithm that automatically proposes preferred altitudes. 




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Gerhard66 - 5/30/2021 8:12:32 AM

2. The picklist should also pop up when changing the altitude in the leg properties menu.
I need this much more often than the general cruise altitude setting in the route menu. 




You can just drag a segment to a new altitude in the profile view at the bottom

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TXR - 6/11/2021 6:07:11 PM
Gerhard66 - 5/30/2021 8:12:32 AM

2. The picklist should also pop up when changing the altitude in the leg properties menu.
I need this much more often than the general cruise altitude setting in the route menu. 




You can just drag a segment to a new altitude in the profile view at the bottom

Off topic. The discussion here is going only about the picklist values and not on how to change altitudes in general. 

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Gerhard66 - 6/11/2021 6:15:55 PM

Off topic. The discussion here is going only about the picklist values and not on how to change altitudes in general. 

Agreed ... and we already found out that the pick list in Skydemon is just a convenience list with no claim to be checked against regulations (which would mean a major development task - i.e. what to do about a cross border flight between one country using semicircular rules and another using octocircular rules? SERA is not the only, but just another regulation framework on this world).

Edited 6/13/2021 8:03:53 AM by pilot-byom
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