This just gets better and better.



I love the new integrated route planner/plog feature.



I've just been playing with today's beta release and would like to suggest a couple of improvements.



1) When pressing 'Accept' on the startup screen there can be a long-ish delay until anything happens - please can you indicate that the system is starting up (e.g grey out the buttons) so that I'm sure that my button push has been accepted. This applies not just to this release, but all previous releases have the same niggle.



2) The wind instrument: I would like the wind barb to rotate when using a 'heading-up' display so that I can have an immediate idea of relative wind direction and strength. Can we have a third option to show X-Wind so that the instrument can display wind barb, head/tailwind or crosswind from Left/Right.



Keep up the great work.

Hi Tim,



we also met briefly at Sywell. Since my last post I have re-loaded the previous non-beta version of Skydemon (2.1.2) onto my device (MicroSD card). The German chart (loaded in isolation) loads in a few seconds, the same as the UK chart. Adding Roads and Railways adds a little to this but even with terrain shading turned on, the chart loading time is the same as for the UK chart (quite acceptable) and re-drawing with all features on only takes a few seconds. The difference is definitely between the two versions of Skydemon, whereby the UK chart does not seem affected. Just for information, the area of Germany I am zooming into is around Stuttgart (EDDS) in case you want to compare on your device. If I revert to the Beta version (installed on another memory card), everything slows done again dramatically as soon as I select the Benelux or German Charts. The UK and France (which I have also just been checking) seem OK. Although it can take a while for terrain shading to appear, it doesn't lock the device while waiting and the map can be dragged around and it redraws as normal. I had the beta version installed on the other MicroSD card initially, so a problem with card cannot be the issue.



So the problem appears to relate to the loading of German and Benelux charts (until they appear fully on the screen) on the beta version (with or without terrain shading and roads/railways turned on). I have not tried any other charts than those mentioned here.



Trevor

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