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VFR cruising altitudes in the Flight Details window


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Hi!
Over in the SD User Europe FB group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1515060015215635) there is a discussion going on to better have a altitude preselection of x-thousands +500 ft when flight rules are set to VFR.
I believe this is a good idea and should be tested in Beta..
To clarify: if you tab the Flight Details badge two items of importance can be preselected:
The first one: flight rules (in this case set to VFR..)
and the second one: "Cruising Level". When tapping that a column of preselected altitudes will show up, starting at 1000ft, then 2000 ft, followed by 3000ft and so on...
However, when flying VFR, it´s not a good idea to select these altitudes as SERA.5005 (g) and Appendix 3 state that you should fly at 3500 ft rather than 3000ft or 5500 ft rather than 5000ft - FL75 rather than FL70.
So I suggest to replace the preselected altitudes 1000, 2000, 3000 and so on by adding 1500 and 2500, then to replace the Thousands by 3500, 4500, 5500 and so on.
All the best,
Björn

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I'm not actually aware of people picking these x500 altitudes to fly VFR here in the UK. Is this a regional thing?
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No, it‘s not a regional thing, it‘s the law. ICAO Annex 2 states so, and that‘s what the European rule says - actually word-by-word.
So, when flying VFR, it´s not only a good idea to select these altitudes as SERA.5005 (g) and Appendix 3 state that you should fly at 3500 ft rather than 3000ft or 5500 ft rather than 5000ft - FL75 rather than FL70.
Best, Björn
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To answer Tim’s question correctly:
It’s a regional thing. The region is called Europe ;-))
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To be exactly clear: the region is worldwide as it‘s an ICAO standard for collision avoidance since the beginning of the Cold War 😉
Just kiddin‘, no offense!!
Best Björn
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Tim Dawson - 6/2/2021 9:07:11 AM
I'm not actually aware of people picking these x500 altitudes to fly VFR here in the UK. Is this a regional thing?


It's an internationally accepted cruising levels like others mentioned before and it's a pain in the butt to manually adjust them.
Everybody will appreciate if you'll do them just like in the Garmin Pilot: West, East or ALL tab. Besides that it shows how much fuel and time will be spent at a particular level at a selected power settings. Very handy and easy to implement.

Foreflight aslo does the same things:




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