No wish is ever dead! It's probably not popular enough to warrant a change to SkyDemon though, at this point in time.

Hi, is this "wish" (non automatic activation of FPL via button" definitely dead?

@ Tim Dawson
Hi there,
I would like this feature very much. I am German, living in France and I fly a lot intl. Due to the absence of such features in SD, I use EuroFPL. I copy my route from SD into EuroFPL and file/manage in there. Once filed/approved in EuroFPL you have an 'ARR' button to send an arrival message. That's already in the free version and saves a lot of hassle, having to make calls to "somewhere" in a foreign country, hoping that you get somebody on the phone, who understands you. As a registered(paying) user, you also find a 'Dep' button about 30 min before the expected block off time. I agree that an automatic send could create troubles and I am therefore perfectly happy, doing it manually. ACKs for Arr/Dep are handled the same way as filing/delay/cancel messages. It would be perfect, if I could handle everything in SD on my flight tablet.
A few "political" words, behind. The issue is not with SD, if something goes wrong; its with the users. As always in aviation, you should know, what you're doing; if not, it may be better to be locked out, eventually. Please don't try to protect a few users from themselves and lock out the majority of conscious users from a very useful feature. That's where over-regulation starts...   ... and PLEASE don't limit it to UK!

The worst thing to happen would be that we get banned from sending any sort of flightplan messages (to a specific country/authority) because they view our DEP messages as inappropriate.

I’d prefer a feature to submit a Departure message manually, with a confirmation back. I’d envisage using this at the hold as the last action before lining up.

I think a feature based on detecting you being airborne has potential issues.

Tim,