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No great circle routing in Quick Planner?

Started by b3burner, January 19, 2013, 02:10:52 PM

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b3burner

I tried a Quick Planner route from San Francisco to Baghdad, Iraq just to see if it would yield the proper great circle route over the pole (and/or very close to it), and instead it directed me straight across the U.S., Atlantic, Northern Africa, and into the Middle East... as though it was assuming a flat world.  Is this a known bug in the program, or since its primary design is for short flight VFR usage, it's presumed that I must find the proper way points to create a polar route on my own?  I'm kinda' new to all this, so I'm still getting the hang of it.

Thanks,

--  John

tim arnot

Yes it's a known problem in the current release.

Tim. @TimArnot