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Various minor issues with 2.2.0

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By MikeN - 8/28/2011 7:46:43 PM

Overall experience with 2.2.0 had been excellent - Well done.



However there are the following points of feedback, experienced on a route between a private strip in the Manchester Low Level Corridor and Sywell, routing Ashcroft, PEDIG, potentially CT.



1) If you route via CT - partly to create a warning of crossing their centreline, as you zoom in and out, the symbol for CT NDB moves away from where the waypoint is in the planner. As you zoom out the symbol moves to East of ANSTY.



2) On the PLOG, with RNAV turned on, it gave the frequencies and Ident for HON and DTY, but not for MCT and TNT, which were the RNAV options presented for Ashcroft and PEDIG



3) On the return trip, as my destination was a Private strip, but the last waypoint before was Ashcroft, SD on an Ipaq tried to direct me off track to the East to intercept the Ashcroft centreline. Of note the wind was adverse that day for that centreline anyway. It was only about 5 degrees off track, so I was confused when following the SD, my RNAV track was diverging, until I noticed the SD was going for the centreline.



4) Partly to avoid the above point 3 ( other than routing via NANTI instead ) would it be possible to define User waypoints as Airfields - ideally including a Runway direction? If the User Interface development was too tricky / time consuming for this, could you allow additional XML in the userwaypoints.xml file - and a sample that could be edited from a template?



Thanks
By Tim Dawson - 9/7/2011 3:43:58 PM

SkyDemon presents all runways as you approach an airfield, and highlights the one that most closely lines up with your position. At some point in the future we will probably present a UI so you can choose the runway you'll be landing on early, which will eliminate the display of the others and set up the ILS.

For the ILS to activate currently, you have to be within 5 degrees of the extended centreline and pointing roughly towards the threshold (within 10 degrees of it, from memory).