Thanks Pete, we will consider it further. To be clear, you think the user should be explicitly selecting inbound/outbound when they select the radial, right?

Al, not a chance I'm afraid. This is a request so niche (among our user base) that we almost didn't implement it at all. As it is, we've had to invent a new category of "advanced tools" to hide it in, to avoid over-complicating the user interface for people without an interest in it.

I think it would benefit from an easy access 'Direct to' button in, say, the top right hand corner which would open a drop down box to type in the options.

We tend to fly "to" (QDM) waypoints rather than away "from" them (QDR/radial) most of the time...a radial is only half the story.

So when we fly to a waypoint, e.g. a waypoint to our west, our track is 270 deg(QDM). Inputing 270 deg as we fly towards it  gives a line saying 090 deg! (Of course we are also on the 090 deg radial/QDR "from" the waypoint but going towards it) 

Radial does not equate to OBS

My point is that convention calls it an OBS(as SD does on the HSI), .....and the HSI has a top and tail ;-)

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Pete

The latest beta doesn't change anything about the selection of a radial, it just colours the opposite radial differently and labels the radials; what am I missing about how it confuses the issue?

Sorry but I think your latest just confuses the issue by ignoring the QDM situation....i.e. tracking to a point, not away from it on a radial/QDR

It is an OBS function(omnibearing selector), just like you have on a VOR found in almost all GA training a/c, I'm sure all ppls must have played with one(and had it explained) at some stage.

Most/all fixed and portable GPS use the same nomenclature where the feature exists.

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Pete

The feature has been slightly updated in today's beta so that the selected radial (and its opposite) are explicitly mentioned onscreen, and they are drawn with different colours to aid identification on the map.

I might be less clever than the average pilot but when I passed my test (and even now) I had no idea what those meant. I craved plain English.

Would QDR and QDM do as labales?

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Thanks all. The hyperlinks are not accidental!

Ideally I would call the feature "Track Bearing to/from Waypoint" but that's too long, especially after translation. Just having "OBS" isn't discoverable enough for people who might want the feature but don't know what OBS means in this context.

Think the term radial (in the menu) would be better named OBS as that is what it does, radial implies a QDR.
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Pete