Hi,
so far I was using SkyDemon in Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia.
Here are two screenshots from my not yet updated iPad (version 3.5.1.32):
http://imgur.com/a/xEHsbThe US sectional chart style was my favorite because the terrain elevation was coloured in the following way:
- light green: [0, 1000) ft
- dark green: [1000, 2000) ft
- light brown: [2000, 3000) ft
- medium brown: [3000, 5000) ft
- dark brown: above 5000 ft
I like to plan my flights at cruising altitudes of 3500-4500 ft, so I with the US Sectional chart style I could see at a glance (even before defining the waypoints and looking at the virtual radar profile) where this was possible.
The other chart styles do this differently, e.g. the SkyDemon 1 style:
- white: [0, 500) ft
- light brown: [500, 1000) ft
- medium brown: [1000, 3000) ft
- dark brown: [3000, 6000) ft
- white: above 6000 ft
I don't need the map to distinguish between [0, 500) and [500, 1000) ft since that makes little to no difference in my flight planning. However, it is (in my opinion) a big advantage to be able to see immediately which parts of the country are in the elevation interval of [0, 2000) ft where a cruising altitude of 3500-4500 ft is sufficient.
I tried the other chart styles:
- SkyDemon 3 and German DFS are useless to me because there is no highlighting of higher terrain at all
- SkyDemon 1 and 2: I'll probably use one of these now
- UK CAA: valleys in the mountains have the same colour as the mountain itself
- Italian Avianoportolano, French SIA: would be a good replacement, but I don't like the thick blue airspace borders
Perhaps you could introduce a way to fine-tune the map styles by the user by allowing us to modify the elevation interval values?
Kind regards
Martin