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Little Niggle - SD 2.1

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By mr_rodge - 4/8/2011 9:53:36 AM

Morning All,

Love the release of 2.1, especially the extra detail to be found on the approach plates.  Great stuff.  Haven't tried in the air yet.  I like my Pooley's and will continue to buy it, however there's a lot to be said for the constant updates in Skydemon.

Just one 'Little Niggle'.  We're now using UTC+1, and there's a little statement at the bottom of the approach plates that says 'Generated by SkyDemon on dd-mm-yyyy at 00:00 Z.'

I know it's nothing at the bottom of a plate, but when setting a takeoff time it automatically sets the nearest hour and states Zulu time.  If you're producing the plan ten minutes before takeoff, you may forget to knock an hour off it to actual Zulu.  Also, when generating the flight plan form using Plan, it automatically sets departure time as the current time again stating Zulu when it's actually BST.  If we're in BST, which we are now, again you have to remember to knock an hour off.

Like I said I know it's small and there might only be me that's daft enough to miss it when planning but the Z being there suggests that the generated plan uses Zulu time, when it in fact uses BST.  Just a matter of remembering to change it!

Or maybe it would be a good feature suggestion, to allow the preference to be changed so that times are shown local or Zulu?

I haven't tested InFlight, so don't know how ETAs are shown or if the option is given for local/Z but the current time in the top right corner is shown correctly, actual Zulu. (I only really use InFlight for situational awareness/to play with the instrument display).

I'm not picking faults here, by the way.  It could even be how it's using my computer's clock for all I know!

Cheers.

By Tim Dawson - 4/8/2011 10:44:48 AM

You're right, the footer of the printed page is using local time but claiming it's Zulu. The rest of SkyDemon uses Zulu exclusively. Thanks for pointing this out.