Stopwatch

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Stopwatch

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teba99	t teba99 posted 10/16/2024 7:14:08 AM Topic Details Share Topic
t Group: Forum Members Posts: 10, Visits: 0	Hi, I see the topic of having a stopwatch in SkyDemon has been brought up a few times over the years ... to me, that seems like a really handy (if not essential) feature. I don't see a stopwatch in the current version -- are there plans to add it? If not, what might be the reasoning reasoning against it? (I don't see clutter as a problem if it is a small floating button that can be shown or hidden) Thanks, -- Terrence
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 10/16/2024 2:29:53 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 8.9K	Almost all devices upon which you might be running SkyDemon have stopwatches of their own. It's never been clear to us what the benefit of adding another one to SkyDemon would be.
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teba99	t teba99 posted 10/17/2024 5:43:58 PM Post Details Share Post
t Group: Forum Members Posts: 10, Visits: 0	Hi, understood, but -- not be be argumentative -- isn't that is also true for other SkyDemon features? It's great to have aerial photography (Google Maps) and PDF reader (User Documents) integrated, but one could make the same argument as both are available as seperate apps. Not sure how a stopwatch is different? The power of SkyDemon is that multiple individual tools are integrated in a single app streamlined for pilots. Thanks, -- Terrence Edited 10/17/2024 7:39:39 PM by teba99
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 10/18/2024 8:41:28 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 8.9K	I agree with you. The aerial photography inside SkyDemon has aviation features (and your route) overlaid, and user documents are often linked to airfields, hence those features have a certain "value add" to them. May I ask what exactly you want the stopwatch for? Sometimes people ask because they want to see their flight time, etc, which we do make available already from the Live PLOG and Logging screens.
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teba99	t teba99 posted 10/18/2024 2:39:53 PM Post Details Share Post
t Group: Forum Members Posts: 10, Visits: 0	Hi, Specifically, VOR procedure turns and holding patterns (unfortunately, still needed sometimes) ... I am aware that I don't really need SkyDemon for this at all, but it would certainly be helpful to be able to stay within the app, with a big benefit being the ability to monitor your flight path and traffic while doing the procedure. PS: On iPad/iOS, there are no really good options for a small floating timer/stopwatch, because of iOS limitations ... you can either open a timer app and split the screen, which obscures a lot of SkyDemon, or you can use a floating timer app, but those can't be resized or moved arbitrarily. And in both cases, there are multiple steps involved fiddling with the iPad, which are quite distracting while flying the plane. Best, -- Terrence Edited 10/18/2024 3:30:06 PM by teba99
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grahamb	grahamb posted 10/18/2024 4:41:27 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 565, Visits: 27K	Perhaps a simple wristwatch is the simplest solution.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 10/21/2024 8:49:46 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 8.9K	I could move this thread to the Suggestions forum so others could weigh in, perhaps?
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teba99	t teba99 posted 10/21/2024 4:44:15 PM Post Details Share Post
t Group: Forum Members Posts: 10, Visits: 0	Hi, I know it's been discussed at various times before, not sure we need to bring it up again. I mainly wanted to understand the rationale for not adding it. Yes, there are obviously workarounds, but it seems to me all of them are more distracting or problem-prone than just having a stopwatch in the app. Anyway, thanks for letting me know. Best, -- Terrence
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