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London Helilanes


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Tim Dawson
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No, not at the moment. We are currently changing the internal route format we use and when this has settled down, after a couple of months ago, we may review the reporting points too. At the moment we have no such thing as "helicopter reporting points" and I don't want to clutter the map with them when they are not applicable to non-heli pilots.
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Hi Tim. Thanks for the update.

I was only after the reporting points on the London Heli-Lanes. Also couldn't a function be added to turn on or off the reporting points to avoid map clutter?
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You could add them using the Custom Data Editor.

-- Chris.
Tim Dawson
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It could, but in general we prefer to have fewer options. Chris comes up with a good idea; how about adding them in their own data file? This would be very straightforward. We could work with you on making the file available for general download from our website too.
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This is what I ended up doing anyway.

Created user waypoints using the GPS co-ordinates from Pooleys. To help with the altitudes I gave the waypoints quite long names to include some of the height restrictions.

I haven't done all the heli-lane waypoints as I only tend to need the more southerly ones. I'd recommend to anybody adding their own if they want to, it's very quick and easy. :-)

Thanks all for the help.
Tim Dawson
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We ended up adding all the heli reporting points a few months ago, I thought. My last reply in this thread is out of date.
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Yes, they are all there now.

Thanks!
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