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Hetzenauer
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Hi! 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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Gerhard66
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Hi Tim, I cannot agree to your „arguments“ too. As a professional tool, SD shall be based on the legislation and not on pilots mentioned, who have obviously not received a sufficient theory training. For your convenience, I provide the link to the official text: „ DF“">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:281:0001:0066:EN  DF“
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bashope
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+xHi Tim, I cannot agree to your „arguments“ too. As a professional tool, SD shall be based on the legislation and not on pilots mentioned, who have obviously not received a sufficient theory training. For your convenience, I provide the link to the official text: „ DF“"> DF“">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:281:0001:0066:EN DF“
How (some) pilots don't know about this, is beyond me.
Here in Germany, if you fly above transition altitude (which I hope all pilots know what it is) of 5000 ft, you should follow the semi-circular rules as you have shared.
Of course, typically, VFR pilots in Germany will fly in Class E, which even though is "controlled" airspace, 2-way communication is not mandatory, so I guess some pilots will not know and not care about the assigned flight levels which one should fly at, but I'm really surprised to hear someone saying they don't know of anyone who complies...
*On the other hand*, we are talking about flight levels here, not altitudes. So even if I would appreciate being able to choose the appropriate "altitude" that I would like to fly at, it would have to be converted to Flight Level, so I assume SkyDemon would need to constantly check the local QNH and convert to Flight Level, by taking the "real" altitude from GPS? I agree it sounds complicated, so in my mind there are 2 options... either doing it properly, getting the laws from each region, and providing a proper suggestion to the pilot, or not having anything at all and just allowing manual input. But indeed the suggestions as they are today are totally useless (to me).
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TXR
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+x+xHi Tim, I cannot agree to your „arguments“ too. As a professional tool, SD shall be based on the legislation and not on pilots mentioned, who have obviously not received a sufficient theory training. For your convenience, I provide the link to the official text: „ DF“"> DF“">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:281:0001:0066:EN DF“
How (some) pilots don't know about this, is beyond me.
Here in Germany, if you fly above transition altitude (which I hope all pilots know what it is) of 5000 ft, you should follow the semi-circular rules as you have shared.
Of course, typically, VFR pilots in Germany will fly in Class E, which even though is "controlled" airspace, 2-way communication is not mandatory, so I guess some pilots will not know and not care about the assigned flight levels which one should fly at, but I'm really surprised to hear someone saying they don't know of anyone who complies...
*On the other hand*, we are talking about flight levels here, not altitudes. So even if I would appreciate being able to choose the appropriate "altitude" that I would like to fly at, it would have to be converted to Flight Level, so I assume SkyDemon would need to constantly check the local QNH and convert to Flight Level, by taking the "real" altitude from GPS? I agree it sounds complicated, so in my mind there are 2 options... either doing it properly, getting the laws from each region, and providing a proper suggestion to the pilot, or not having anything at all and just allowing manual input. But indeed the suggestions as they are today are totally useless (to me). What's the problem with picking 6500 ft in SD for planning purposes, and then flying FL065 at whatever altitude that happens to be that day? It's neither relevant for filed VFR flight plans nor for ATC as you fly. SD also doesn't feed your onboard Nav or A/P. I don't see why SD should have to crack their skulls over this and make the product more technically complex with no benefit.
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BJS
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+x[quote]Here in Germany, if you fly above transition altitude (which I hope all pilots know what it is) of 5000 ft, you should follow the semi-circular rules as you have shared. I suggest you brush up your knowledge - since the introduction of SERA even in Germany flying semi-circular rules start at 3000ft. I admit it is a bit odd for the former land of invention of overly following any rules, in reality they indeed give a sh*t and start following rules above 5000, but even there it is not the correct way to do.
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Hetzenauer
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+x+x[quote]Here in Germany, if you fly above transition altitude (which I hope all pilots know what it is) of 5000 ft, you should follow the semi-circular rules as you have shared. I suggest you brush up your knowledge - since the introduction of SERA even in Germany flying semi-circular rules start at 3000ft. I admit it is a bit odd for the former land of invention of overly following any rules, in reality they indeed give a sh*t and start following rules above 5000, but even there it is not the correct way to do. So plz let us know: what would be the correct way in your opinion then? And why would that actually prevent the dev from changing the input fields as requested?
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