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mschmoelzer
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Hi,
I just updated SkyDemon to version 3.6.0 and now the US Sectional chart style is missing. Is there any way I can get it back?
Thanks & kind regards
Martin
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Tim Dawson
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Sorry, our removal of that chart style was intentional and we currently have no plans to reintroduce it. Can you describe why you want it and what countries you were using it with?
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mschmoelzer
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Hi, so far I was using SkyDemon in Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Here are two screenshots from my not yet updated iPad (version 3.5.1.32): http://imgur.com/a/xEHsbThe US sectional chart style was my favorite because the terrain elevation was coloured in the following way: - light green: [0, 1000) ft
- dark green: [1000, 2000) ft
- light brown: [2000, 3000) ft
- medium brown: [3000, 5000) ft
- dark brown: above 5000 ft
I like to plan my flights at cruising altitudes of 3500-4500 ft, so I with the US Sectional chart style I could see at a glance (even before defining the waypoints and looking at the virtual radar profile) where this was possible.
The other chart styles do this differently, e.g. the SkyDemon 1 style: - white: [0, 500) ft
- light brown: [500, 1000) ft
- medium brown: [1000, 3000) ft
- dark brown: [3000, 6000) ft
- white: above 6000 ft
I don't need the map to distinguish between [0, 500) and [500, 1000) ft since that makes little to no difference in my flight planning. However, it is (in my opinion) a big advantage to be able to see immediately which parts of the country are in the elevation interval of [0, 2000) ft where a cruising altitude of 3500-4500 ft is sufficient. I tried the other chart styles: - SkyDemon 3 and German DFS are useless to me because there is no highlighting of higher terrain at all
- SkyDemon 1 and 2: I'll probably use one of these now
- UK CAA: valleys in the mountains have the same colour as the mountain itself
- Italian Avianoportolano, French SIA: would be a good replacement, but I don't like the thick blue airspace borders
Perhaps you could introduce a way to fine-tune the map styles by the user by allowing us to modify the elevation interval values? Kind regards Martin
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Tim Dawson
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Thanks Martin, that helps. We recently used some telemetry to help us decide which chart styles we could afford to maintain moving forward and unfortunately that style came out with the lowest number of users, so it lost out. It helps to know that it was mainly the specific terrain banding that you liked though.
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geohawk
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Bummer, that was my style of choice as well, for the same reasons, and for the same regions as well...
Thanks for explaining the reasons.
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Alti-Dude
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My favorite style too. Most of my flying is in Switzerland and France, over mountainous terrain. Perhaps SD could consider adapting one of their three custom styles to move towards the US sectional style. It would certainly be appreciated.
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luc
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I was also using this chart style, especially for the US; it is the only one which differentiates clearly class D airspace (blue dashed line), class C airspace (magenta line) and class B airspace (solid blue line).
Luc
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Richard747
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Jalafu
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I was using the Sectional Chart Style in the US too & will definitely miss it next time for several reasons (as f.e. luc pointed out). Nevertheless I still like the choice between different chart styles.
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Vincent BAZILLIO
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Martin has perfectly explained the reason why, as many other customers, I choose the US Sectional Chart style to fly in France. I explained it among other pros and cons on my blog : http://20-100-video.blogspot.fr/2015/07/mise-jour-des-impressions-skydemon.htmlmschmoelzer (5/4/2016)
Hi, - light green: [0, 1000) ft
- dark green: [1000, 2000) ft
- light brown: [2000, 3000) ft
- medium brown: [3000, 5000) ft
- dark brown: above 5000 ft
I like to plan my flights at cruising altitudes of 3500-4500 ft, so I with the US Sectional chart style I could see at a glance (even before defining the waypoints and looking at the virtual radar profile) where this was possible.
Martin I'm very disapointed that Skydemon removed it.
Vincent B.(St-Cyr/LFPZ, Toussus/LFPN, San Diego/KMYF)
Check my blog : http://20-100-video.blogspot.com
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