It does make sense, thanks. Surely that area would be about the size of a postage stamp? I wonder if part of this issue is that you're using SkyDemon on a very small screen?

Hi Tim,

I'm not familiar with the way Garmin do it. We don't attempt to draw circuits to scale at all; I'm sure they'd be unflyable if you were to actually attempt it. However when you're zoomed out such that the length of the smaller runway is only an inch long, then by the time we've drawn the line with the arrows on it would just be a mess (we did lots of experimentation when designing the feature). Perhaps you could illustrate with a screenshot of when you think we should be drawing but we aren't?

I quite like the way the garmin 296/496 series depicts runway circuits with a left/right arrow at end of runway. Less cluttered (& less clutter is a SD hallmark). Current SD depiction is rather clunky.

But the feature to select runway in use is great . . I wd like to be able to specify L/R (or take from approach plate with ability to override somehow).

D

Regarding the size of the circuit depiction, SkyDemon only draws it if there's enough room. If you're zoomed right out to look at a long runway then there may well not be enough room to draw a circuit around a small runway.

Are you sure you haven't included a wet hire rate in the aircraft properties? If so, then fuel usage won't affect the price, only the time of the flight. I can't reproduce what you're seeing.

2.3 Beta 23/2/2012

Hi Tim,