Hi.

I have used FlightStar and the German program Flight Planner prior to changing to SD last year. However both these allow the opening of multiple routes This facility I use for planning 2-5 day tours of 3 flights per day.

SD does not seem to permit this. Has anybody got a solution, other than going back to my old software for an overall view?

AlanM

I think this would be really useful. When a route crosses a zone you may possibly not get permission to enter so you need to have an alternative route immediately to hand. That alternative needs to have been included in the planning.

To avoid adding complexity I would have single route legs as the default and then perhaps right mouse click over the point oo the route you want to "split" (say 15nm before a zone) and then do the same for that point of the route where the two merge. You should then be able to add in extra points to get you around the zone etc. Perhaps in flight as you approach the leg with the split in it the secondary route is displayed - by steering that secondary route it would become the one used in the calculations so there would not be an overhead of complexity in flight, just a slight one on the ground. Of course the plog would need to show both as well.

Sounds awful complicated to me for something many of us wd use once every Sheffield flood.

Remember its so simple to add a waypoint diversion by holding your finger anywhere on the map and inserting the waypoint.

Could not be much simpler. You can also delete waypoints.

D