Although SkyDemon tends to be VFR based, the addition of approach plates would be of great value to pilots with IMCR who fly VFR but are prepared for bad weather. So please complete the package and add the option to print approach plates along with airfield information.




Sussex Flyer

Now that really is a radical idea. I'm not sure Tim is ready to take on the Jeppesen/aerad duopoly, and if he did would SD users be ready to pay the extra costs of maintaining such a database. Just look at the cost of subscriptions to the incumbants.



I could use such an add on, if the price was right, but I don't see how it could easily be an affordable add on for occasional users.

You can already print SkyDemon approach plates. These are not IFR approach plates, they are VFR approach plates, and they will be improved a great deal in the coming months. For the moment, though, SkyDemon remains a VFR product and we haven't announced anything around the IFR market.

Agree - focus on VFR where you have some real advantages IMHO and leave IFR where there are already some great options with FlightplanPro and EuroFPL

I can appreciate the cost argument, but approach plates are available online without breaking the bank, a company "gCAP" offer CAT A approach plates at a very reasonable cost and they can be downloaded as required and paid for individually, but I'm thinking of integration. Besides the content of IFR packages are generally above what an IMCR pilot might need or use.

Perhaps a similar plate set as an purchased add on for SkyDemon IMC customers or even a link within the package to gCAP.

SF

Sussex Flyer

Gcap is mainly UK approach plates, skydemon is spreading much further than UK & NW Europe! Incidently, if I remember right UK plates are available off the AIP on the AIS website.

Yes. approach plates are available from many different locations, including free downloads from AIS, but as stated previously, integration is the key word here and gCAP was mentioned only as a possible low cost link aimed squarely at SEP pilots (CAT A).

You make a good point with regards european trips, but SkyDemon is offered as a VFR package and I wouldn't suggest that it is extended to cover IFR route planning, what I hoped to suggest was the additional support for IMCR pilots who normally fly VFR but are prepared for poor weather and of course the IMCR isn't valid outside of UK airspace.

SF

Sussex Flyer