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#1
Plan-G / Re: Suggestion: minimal route map
February 20, 2015, 04:40:19 PM
Cool, thanks!

Thinking a little more about it; printing a long, spidery route could produce something hard to read, so perhaps the ability to print route subsections would solve that.
#2
Plan-G / Suggestion: reciprocal reference bearings
February 19, 2015, 07:53:37 PM
Pinpointing a waypoint by references is a very useful feature, displaying the bearings in the flight plan.

However, it has one problem; the bearings are given from the waypoint to the reference points, whereas it's often useful to identify the waypoint from the reference point, e.g. a VOR radial.

Aha, you say, the reciprocal is just 180 deg different - but with magnetic variation it often isn't.

An example- The COVEY intersection is on radial 255 from the MOL (Montebello) VOR, whereas the bearing from COVEY to MOL is 78 deg - a difference of 3 deg with the reciprocal 75.

OK, we can work around it using QDM, drawing radials and adding notes, but that negates the benefit of using references in the first place.

Thus it would be useful if bearings from the reference points could be included in the flight plan.
#3
Plan-G / Suggestion: minimal route map
February 18, 2015, 09:40:52 PM
Hi!

When creating a flight plan I can print out a map of the route, but it includes all of the enabled map features (e.g airfields, navaids, OSM background) within the bounding box.

What I'd like is a simplified diagram which only shows the route's legs and waypoints, as well as any relevant navaids (e.g. used to define the waypoints).  No other map features, nothing extraneous.

The sequence information is already there in the "print flight plan" feature - this idea is for a diagrammatic version of that.  There's an example of something similar near the bottom of this page , part of Charles Wood's IFR tutorial.


Anyway, just an idea.  Thanks for the great product!

John