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VFR cruising altitudes in the Flight Details window

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By Hetzenauer - 5/24/2021 2:38:56 PM

Hi!
Over in the SD User Europe FB group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1515060015215635) there is a discussion going on to better have a altitude preselection of x-thousands +500 ft when flight rules are set to VFR.
I believe this is a good idea and should be tested in Beta..
To clarify: if you tab the Flight Details badge two items of importance can be preselected:
The first one: flight rules (in this case set to VFR..)
and the second one: "Cruising Level". When tapping that a column of preselected altitudes will show up, starting at 1000ft, then 2000 ft, followed by 3000ft and so on...
However, when flying VFR, it´s not a good idea to select these altitudes as SERA.5005 (g) and Appendix 3 state that you should fly at 3500 ft rather than 3000ft or 5500 ft rather than 5000ft - FL75 rather than FL70.
So I suggest to replace the preselected altitudes 1000, 2000, 3000 and so on by adding 1500 and 2500, then to replace the Thousands by 3500, 4500, 5500 and so on.
All the best,
Björn
By OE-SAR - 4/3/2022 10:21:44 PM

 
Tim Dawson - 2/2/2022 12:25:35 PM
We're going to try adjusting the suggested levels list to x500 feet for VFR flights in the coming release, and look carefully for any pushback. IFR flights will keep the x000 feet suggestions, and mixed will give both.

hi Tim, thanks a lot for realizing this feature, I appreciate