By shawkins0 - 9/3/2011 11:09:46 AM
I’ve used Skydemon light for a month now and I think it’s fantastic. I've just bought a Skydemon Mobile MD so now I’ve been using the full version of Skydemon Plan for the past week and it’s even better, but I do have a few suggested improvements and some apparent errors to point out:
Apparent errors:
1. The Alderbury VRP (just south of Old Sarum) is shown in the wrong place. It should be located at N510254 W0014354 where the road and railway track meet, but in Plan it’s shown located 1.1 nm south of this point. This makes me wonder if there are other waypoints in Plan that have been entered incorrectly.
2. Just east of Old Sarum there is a Laser site shown with a big red circle. This red circle does not exist on the CAA chart. According to the CAA chart this laser site is inside the danger area. Why is there a laser site circle shown outside of the danger area in Skydemon Plan?
3. In the Manchester zone the airway L975 is shown with the wrong base altitude. It’s shown coming down to 3,000 feet, but between 3,000 and 3,500 feet in this area it’s actually class D (see CAA chart).
Suggested improvements:
4. Printing. It would be nice to have the option of printing ‘whole pack’ or selecting which sections to print. At the moment it’s a laborious process of having to print everything individually.
5. Printing. It would be nice to have the option of printing the weight and balance.
6. Planning. Is it possible to set the climb to begin after a waypoint. The altitude change appears to default to occurring before the waypoint.
7. NOTAMs. On Skydemon light there is a magnifying class option within each NOTAM that you can click to see its location on the map. This feature does not exist in Skydemon Plan. Please add.
Overall a great product though.
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By Tim Dawson - 9/5/2011 3:23:52 PM
You're correct that airspace cannot be two different classes at the same time, but there are many cases where airspace of different classes overlaps and in this case, the highest class of airspace becomes the effective class of the area. I'll forward your comments to the people responsible who will either correct the printed CAA chart or correct the AIP. There have been a few instances in the past where the CAA chart has been amended after people noticed discrepancies between it and ours, and ours turned out to be correct.
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