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Thank you for clarifying.

Colour High Terrain doesn’t tell you how high you need to climb to - It just tells you +/- 500’. For crossing a ridge, you need at least 1000’, or 2000’+ if there is significant wind. At altitude, 2000’ can take several minutes to climb due to decreased performance, so you need to be able to plan ahead. To plan ahead you need to know your target number, and that number may change throughout the flight depending on the conditions.

The terrain colouring is nice, but it doesn’t allow you to specify a target height or choose a ridge crossing point. It’s nice for general awareness, but ultimately I’d need to know my specific crossing altitude in numbers.

Both situations described in the posts above could substantially benefit from the Colour High Terrain feature, I feel. Could you try it?

I agree with Unblonde: Being able to determine ridge heights in mountainous areas is important for safety, as you need to ensure you have sufficient clearance (determined by wind speed) well before you get there. At the moment we’re forced to guess, but would be much easier and safer if we could just get the elevation quickly from What’s Here.

Just to add that when I first started using Skydemon in anger last month, i also thought this was a missing feature - initially assumed that i just didn't know how to turn it on.

Our new Terrain Colouring feature will make that obvious too, hopefully. Let's ship that then return to this debate.