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Please fix auto-zoom OFF


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I have auto-zoom setting toggled OFF, but every time I get airborne, the zoom changes automatically which I don't want. This surely must be a bug?

An example, departing Luton in a helicopter, I'm on the ground with engine running, I press Go Flying, it changes zoom to what it thinks I need to use, not always correctly. I have to change zoom to fit the airport AIP plate to show the taxiways I want to read or use. Then just before getting airborne, I manually set the zoom to show the VRPs given in my clearance (e.g. Hyde -> M1 Junc 9 -> M1 Junc 8). Then after getting airborne, the zoom automatically changes again forcing me to change the zoom back to show my VRPs.

Auto-zoom is great if thats what you want it to do, but I have it turned off so it shouldn't be changing. If I've manually set a zoom in flight, I want it to remain as selected so I have complete control. This has been one of my long term annoyances for the last couple of years.

Long time iPad user.
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T67M
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I think you miss my point, Tim. All of the navigation packages currently available do the core job reasonably well. Skydemon is, in my opinion, currently the best of these. 

However all of the products also have irritating annoyances - such as we are discussing in this thread. These irritations aren't (individually) big enough for many people to actively complain (although i know that both of these niggles have been discussed previously). In part this is because they're so obviously wrong that most users can't believe you won't fix them eventually without them needing to complain, and in part because each is so small that one by one they can be lived with, but all together they cause irritation. Ultimately, the users won't complain about niggles, they'll just leave. 

These niggles are also the reason I can no longer in good conscience recommend Skydemon to my students - instead I try to give them a balanced view of all the products, warts and all, and let them make their own choice. Some choose Skydemon - and some don't.

Edited 10/11/2018 6:25:24 PM by T67M
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