Enable aerial photography in flight mode

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Enable aerial photography in flight mode

Enable aerial photography in flight mode

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Clemens Gassner	C Clemens Gassner posted 10/5/2025 8:05:04 AM Topic Details Share Topic
C Group: Forum Members Posts: 6, Visits: 8	Hi there! There are already so many requests and posts about adding custom georeferenced charts in SD. It would be great to have the option to add our own charts — maybe we’ll see this feature someday. But for now, it would be a really nice feature if the "Aerial Photography" layer were also available in flight mode, not just in planning mode. Is there any chance we might see such a feature?
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grahamb	grahamb posted 10/5/2025 2:45:35 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 600, Visits: 29K	+x Clemens Gassner - 10/5/2025 8:05:04 AM Hi there! There are already so many requests and posts about adding custom georeferenced charts in SD. It would be great to have the option to add our own charts — maybe we’ll see this feature someday. But for now, it would be a really nice feature if the "Aerial Photography" layer were also available in flight mode, not just in planning mode. Is there any chance we might see such a feature? I believe it already is. - Touch on the chart somewhere to bring up the ‘What’s here’ pop-up - touch on the relevant feature/lat-long ref - touch on ‘aerial photography’ at the bottom of the pop-up If it’s an airport you touch on the chart, you can access Aerial Photography from the info pop-up. Not ‘one-touch’ but it’s there.
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Clemens Gassner	C Clemens Gassner posted 10/5/2025 3:26:12 PM Post Details Share Post
C Group: Forum Members Posts: 6, Visits: 8	Yes and no. Yes, you can open the aerial photography that way. But: - there’s no moving map - no details such as track, speed, distance, log, etc. It would be great to have an option — for example, beneath "SD Ground Cover" and "SD Terrain" in the chart style menu — to choose a "Google Maps Hybrid" style.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 2 days ago @ 9:41 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.2K, Visits: 9.6K	It's already enabled in flight mode. Easiest way is to open the Mapping menu and choose Aerial Photography. You'll see your aircraft symbol on top of the Apple/Google maps base layer. Helicopter pilots often use this to precisely locate features, for example. I don't think real enroute navigation using satellite photography is something many people want, so we have no plans to add all the navigation instruments to that screen at present.
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grahamb	grahamb posted 2 days ago @ 9:53 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 600, Visits: 29K	+x Tim Dawson - 10/6/2025 9:41:37 AM It's already enabled in flight mode. Easiest way is to open the Mapping menu and choose Aerial Photography. You'll see your aircraft symbol on top of the Apple/Google maps base layer. Helicopter pilots often use this to precisely locate features, for example. I don't think real enroute navigation using satellite photography is something many people want, so we have no plans to add all the navigation instruments to that screen at present. The option doesn’t appear on the Mapping menu when in Simulate mode (v.4.2.0.423, iPadOs 18.7.1).
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted Yesterday @ 9:27 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.2K, Visits: 9.6K	You're right, it only appears when you're on the ground, and not while you're in flight. We'd certainly look at revisiting that criterion if people want to use it for more scenarios than we originally envisaged.
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