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Enable aerial photography in flight mode


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Clemens Gassner
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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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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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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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