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Position Reporting on Mobile SD and iPad


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Hi Tim and crew, when using the SD mobile device I used to press and hold on the aircraft symbol and this would give an accurate position report and made things easy for reporting to ATC, I am now using the iPad and this function does not work, is this intentional and if so would you cosider adding the option to the ipad as i used to find it really useful?

Many thanks

Nigel
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It's permanently displayed at the top of the screen?
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oh yeah what a plonker, just been using it as a test at the mo and i didnt see it! Thanks
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Hi Tim,

For many of us older folks it is VERY difficult to imposible to read the position report on iPad in flight, especially in bright cockpits, making it very stressful when you are asked for you position by the controller. It would be VERY useful if you could add functionality, where when you touch the position report area, it would 'blow up' into large character text (the bigger the better) for a second or two, or till another touch (with some time-out).

Thanks for considering this.

BR Ivan
Tim Dawson
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We may make that instrument (and others) scalable in the future, it's a possibility. However the text size used should be the same as the other instruments, is that not what you're seeing?
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Tim, sorry for late reply, I didn't have chance to get back to the forum until now. To answer your question; Yes, the font and size is the same as other instruments, however text in other instruments is in upper case, while position report is in lower case and that makes a big difference as far as readability is concerned, as it makes the text one third smaller and much less readable. I think it would be good to at least make all instruments scalable, while making the position report one or two points larger, or upper case. But I would still prefer to be able to enlarge the position report dramatically by say quickly touching the map area or the plane symbol or something like that.

Best Regards,

Ivan
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Yes, I would also like scalable data blocks. I think they're too small on the MD. They are bigger on the ancient GPS III pilot which has a smaller screen than the MD.
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