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Plan-G / Plan-G Lat/Long Units: DDM format
May 06, 2017, 05:24:10 PM
Tim,

As you will know, Plan_G currently supports two types of Latitude and Longitude Display Format Units - i.e.  DD MM SS.S or Decimal Degrees (selected via Options>General Units).  Could you please consider adding support for DDM (i.e. Degrees Decimal Minutes) format?  This would be very helpful for those who use Garmin GTN 750 etc. (which strangely uses a mix of different formats - but DDM for flight planning).

I believe you already have DDM related code in your application (to enable at least one of the supported save Flight Plan formats).  It would be nice to be able to save Flight Plans in GTN 750 format (as these can now be loaded from file) - but having tried to generate these manually as text files, I'm not sure that would be a trivial task for you to implement (I know this has previously been requested).  Given that this may not be possible (or at least relatively simple to implement), being able to read locations off the map in DDM format would be a very helpful alternative.

Much appreciate your application which is a pleasure to use! :)