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In Flight Feedback

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By pink leader - 7/28/2010 9:22:57 PM

Am starting to get to grips with the inflight programme. V impressed. Got it working on Navigon 8410 with newbie's help.

Have only used it in car so far. But I loaded a route and drove to the airfield this evening. What appeared to happen re Next Waypoint was most interesting. When I started driving I was close to the first waypoint (start was the airfield) but then it seemed to refer to Waypoint No2 (25 NM away). Only when I rebooted did it get back to No1 which was still nearest. Its as if at some point I was "past" No 1 and so it kept referring to No2 even though I had effectively "turned back" on myself. If thats really what happened could be dangerous in the air.

Position  .. I know the lat/long is given at top of screen. But if you fire up the PC version and attach a GPS antenna, then position wrt an ICAO airfield (or some such) is given. This is extremely useful esp when air traffic ask for position report. I use the same feature on G296 all the time. Pl can we have it on InFlight WinCE version of software.

Just a few thoughts.

David

By Tim Dawson - 7/30/2010 11:06:29 AM

SkyDemon will advance you to the next leg of your route when you get within half a mile of the waypoint you're currently targetting, or if you pass abeam it. If this method of advancing isn't suitable for your route then auto advancing can be turned off in the options. The next waypoint can also be cycled to manually by tapping where it says Next: (Whatever).

A friendly position report can be obtained at any time in SkyDemon Mobile by tapping the aircraft icon. We hide nuggets of information like this in the documentation Smile