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

Till now I was fighting to get the good (low) altitude I wanted to have for the whole flight..

My home base is located well under the Schiphol TMA (starts in general at 1500'). Any VFR flying will be done at 1200-1400, the last one for daredevils who can fly manually within 100' for an hour while doing all the VFR stuff in XX turbulence. Lately, SPL takes up any incursion, like 1600' in the TMA as a serious one. The time comes when they will start fines with serious amounts, 'çause they're fed up.

Till now I set like 1200' manually in the radar display, leg by leg, which is cumbersome, till I now found out, it CAN be done in the aircraft profile! A place I would normally NOT turn to.

Why not have in Flight details the Cruising level altitude select  page option a possibility to select something like A1200 to force the system to use that iso levels?

Gerhard, I don't get it, so many times I tried, now suddenly it does. After typing it previously , it did not change the level. Maybe there's a crack in my brains