By MrSkyFly - 4/2/2018 12:00:05 PM
A few month ago you wrote :“A VFR autorouting is a strange option that I understand some software offers, whereby the software will decide where you're going with reference to controlled airspace, dangerous airspace and other hazards. In our opinion if a piece of software does that for you, you haven't actually planned your flight at all. We regard it as dangerous and will not be adopting it in SkyDemon.“
I would like to ask you to reconsider this opinion!
It would be incredibly helpful to get at least a suggestion for an optimal route.
We once planned a route from Germany to Spain, where we had to fly around hundreds of dangerous airspace, which were very close together, vertical and horizontal.
This meant we had to make a big detour.
If skydemon offered an autoroute option then you could save a lot of time and money.
The responsible pilot will certainly check the route proposed by the software for plausibility, for example on the vertical radar. And you could demand a confirmation from the pilot by clicking.
So please include the autoroute function because most SkyDemon users like to have such a funktion!
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By Tim Dawson - 4/4/2018 12:16:56 PM
I have reconsidered as requested, and the answer is still no.
If some software plans your route for you, you haven't really planned your flight. Flight planning for VFR is crucial. Us suggesting a route and then you checking it sounds ok in theory, but in practice you could easily miss something and not be fully aware of where your "planned" route was taking you.
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