When using the "Direct to" function on the iPad it is only possible to select airfields. It would be great if it would be possible to select IFR waypoint (and possibly VFR reporting points), which are in the vicinity of the planned route.

When you perform a "direct to" operation, is it not your intention that your original route is entirely replaced by your new instruction?

That is the general idea Tim.

Treat it as a 'get out of jail' move to help with an immediate divert for example. If the rest of the route could be tacked on after that then we would have a system that is very recognisable by many pilots out there.

I was tootling around yesterday and I punched in my home base of Cheddington as a direct to but the SD didn't recognise it. Had I initiated a route before airborne then Cheddington would have been recognised.

Very puzzling!!

Alan