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Zulu v. local times


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sprucegoose
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I've just returned from a flight to the south of France, during which SD on the iPad has been an absolutely fantastic tool, not least from the way it manages to update the METARs via 3g at FL95 - extraordinary. And the iPad can play music through the Lightspeeds to while away the hours.

However, I'm puzzled by the use of local times within Sky Demon. This makes flightplanning confusing. For example filing a flight plan while in the UK but for the second leg of a journey starting in France means you have to put the departure time as it would be in the UK - which is neither UTC nor local time - in order to get the right zulu time on your flight plan (and visa versa). Then when you look at the logs, it's not clear exactly which time is being displayed - is it zulu, local on departure or local on arrival? Surely it would be easier to simply stick with standard aviation zulu time throughout? Or at least offer the option?
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Ok, so for the moment at least, when filing a flight plan with the start point in another time zone (like the second leg of a European flight) one would need to enter UTC + the local time offset (of the iPad), irrespective of the real local time at point of departure? I think that's how I finally got the right times into the flight plan for a recent flight
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