Dear Sky Demon team,

 

I have recently become aware of the Sky Demon products and am new to this forum.  I have read through the information on the website and looked back over many of the forum posts.

 

I’m looking for a portable aviation GPS and I must say, from what I have seen on the website, the clarity of presentation and the functionality of the Sky Demon products are impressive.

 

I have a few questions for which I would be grateful for your clarification.  Apologies if these are explained in any previous forum posts that I might not have read.

 

1.       Virtual Radar (excellent idea)
– is it possible to toggle virtual radar on and off the screen display during flight?

2.       Active flight plan page
- is there a screen/page available where you can see a table listing all the waypoints of the currently active flight plan, with ETA at the next waypoint and forward ETAs at all the following waypoints, including destination?
(I have seen that you can tap on the screen on a point forward of your current position and Sky Demon will display time/distance to that point.  This is a great feature but I also think that a table, as described above, is helpful in monitoring your flight progress and also giving ATC any requested forward ETAs.)

3.       VNAV
Does Sky Demon have the functionality to define a cruise climb/descent?  For example: “descend at 300fpm to 2000ft AMSL/AGL by 3nm before WaypointX” and then give alerts before starting climb/descent and before reaching the target altitude/height.

4.       HSI
I see on the website that version 2.1 will include an HSI view.  Excellent enhancement.  As I read it, this will give vertical guidance along a glideslope when on approach to a runway.  Will it also be possible to use the HSI view for vertical guidance during other flight phases? eg. climb/descent as mentioned in 3. above (VNAV).

5.       Is there a larger screen Sky demon mobile GPS in the pipeline?  If so can you please give any details.

6.       I am in Switzerland:
- is there any way to download a portion of the Swiss chart to get an idea of its content and resolution?
- Switzerland is a small country.  I may make flights into neighbouring countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Austria – even to UK.
How many country charts can be loaded into the Sky Demon mobile GPS at once?
(For a flight to UK at least 3 charts would be required – Switzerland, France, UK.)

Thank you and regards,

Mark

That depends what you mean by loaded. You can install all SkyDemon's charts onto a device at once, and the device inspects them and loads them into memory as necessary (either when you're within their boundaries or approaching rapidly). Most little devices don't have enough memory to load more than 2-3 charts at once, hence this clever automatic loading mechanism.

There's nothing to stop you installing (for instance) all European charts on to your device then flying across Europe. SkyDemon should load and unload the charts as necessary.

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the answer.  It made me think of one more question as follows:

If I purchase SkyDemon Plan (with Navigation) or SkyDemon Mobile then which charts can I use?  Do I get all country charts or just one?  If just one then what is the cost to purchase additional country charts?

Similarly with updates - are all country charts updated when I purchase the annual update?

Regards,

Mark