By FaRu1 - 7/25/2015 9:14:04 PM
Dear Skydemon team,
I was wondering why no railways are displayed on the map although I had ticked the box in the map settings ... until I noticed those VERY VERY THIN grey lines. Practically invisible in flight - I tried with 2 devices.
I like using railways as landmarks and propose to use the same thickness as assigned to country roads. Or can I adjust it in the program user interface and I just did not find it?
Kind Regards, Falk
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By DirDej - 8/5/2015 5:20:45 AM
Railways are good navigation references. Even after a hundred years of disuse, all tracks having been removed, you can still see the outlines. Same with abandoned WW2 airfields in East Anglia.
It all depends: in the middle of the Sahara, even a cameltrack would be valuable navigation information. I prefer to have railway tracks, waterways and highways. That said I don't use SD to simulate a topographical map, I use the GPS part to help my navigation along airways or VFR routes around or through controlled airspace.
In VFR we should watch for traffic, navigation is secondary. I only watch the SD screen maybe a few seconds every few minutes, depending on the distance to next waypoint.
I have encountered too many aircraft that showed no sign of ever seeing me.
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