One thing I miss almost daily when using SD are the airports traffic circuits. I know about your problems with public organizations as Skyguide. But there is another way to success:



You already have your own vector based VFR airspace data. Why don’t you just integrate vector based traffic patterns of European airports? For example www.platzrunden.de has all European traffic patterns including approach sectors and entry circuits for Garmin GPS. There it’s very easy to join downwind, turn into base and final leg.



You have to vectorize it only once because traffic patterns change rarely. For the SD customers it would be an appreciated added value to your great software!





Thanks for your excellent product SD. I love it!

Hans

On my last flight I flew to a very small airfield where it was hard to navigate by landmarks. There we used Air Nav Pro with Austrian traffic pattern data from rogersdata.at to keep inside the traffic pattern and it worked great. And to be honest - I was more disturbed by searching for landmarks on the ground and comparing them to my chart than my Co, who followed the track on his tablet (we tried to answer exactly that question - what will be more safe, searching for landmarks or having a moving map with you).