Suggestion: reciprocal reference bearings

[Jabble]

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.

[tim arnot]

I'll put it on the list.