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Waypoint selection in flight


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flyingalan
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I would like to suggest that a facility is provided to step forward and back on the screen, the "waypoint in use" in the flight plan. It would make it very quick to return to previous (or departure field) if needed, and also enable quick direct re routing if required.

My idea would be to put on the screen smallish touch  buttons either side of existing "waypoint in use text" at the top of the screen that would be + and - allowing previous and next to be quickly selected in flight.

Also on subject of waypoint text, does anyone else find the existing text very small, and sometimes difficult to read in adverse light with the varying backgrounds and colors of moving map happening. I personally would like to see an increased font size for this text especially if we are able to select next and previous per my suggestion above.

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Tim Dawson
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Clicking on the next waypoint name at the top of the screen is hard, because it's very small vertically. Reversing the route means clicking on three large buttons, which is much easier.

The underlying problem here seems to be that you want to reverse your route, and we have an easy way to do it. I honestly can't think of a way of making it easier, unless we added a big button to the main screen that reversed the route, which we're not going to do. We could display a list of waypoints to choose from after clicking on the next waypoint, but as I already mentioned that's a small target area and there would still need to be another click, presumably.

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flyingalan - 6/21/2011 5:06:59 PM
Tim Dawson - 6/23/2011 7:55:24 PM
flyingalan - 6/24/2011 5:18:36 PM
Tim Dawson - 6/27/2011 4:42:45 PM
flyingalan - 6/28/2011 12:50:51 PM
pink leader - 6/28/2011 7:46:40 PM
Tim Dawson - 6/29/2011 12:48:24 PM
flyingalan - 6/30/2011 10:27:41 PM
flyingalan - 6/30/2011 10:32:29 PM
Tim Dawson - 8/4/2011 11:19:00 AM
Runways - 8/4/2011 12:18:18 PM
T67M - 8/14/2011 6:38:40 PM
flyingalan - 8/7/2011 1:32:31 PM
stuartforrest - 8/17/2011 11:33:52 PM
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nje - 8/18/2011 8:08:17 AM
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