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By drianwilson - 4/12/2010 4:07:19 PM

Tim,

The product continues to evolve and remains in my opinion first class, well done.

I planned a route from Caernarfon (EGCK) to Bembridge (EGHJ) and back. During this and the return journey it became apparent that it might be useful if some form of vertical planning element.

What I mean is that if during a leg of the journey I am climbing for an extended period (e.g FL95 !) at a lower airspeed (e.g 120kts) than my cruising airspeed (e.g 145kts) then this has a bearing on the time estimate of a leg.

Also if I choose to descend at cruising speed, thereby saving fuel, I don't benefit and "catch up" later on that leg.

May be the easiest way to implement this is to place a section on the airplane settings for speed in the climb, speed in the descent ?

Do you get what I mean???

By Baron von Mildred - 2/6/2011 5:43:27 PM

I too, would like the ability to pull out eta s to waypoints ahead of the next one. Where I fly there are no reliable wind forecasts, and actual GS can be quite different to the estimated one on the plog.



I regularly am asked estimates for waypoints hundreds of miles away. Yes your GS can change but an estimate based on current GS would be great.