I think it would be very useful if we could click on the heli route we intended to fly and this information is added to the route. I use Sky Demon to plan all the legs of a flight so it gives me total distance/time etc but doing this for a London trip is not an option, as it gives you way too many legs. Or would it be possible to have a free hand tool so you can effectively draw a route on the map?

We've thought about this, but you'd end up with a "leg" with effectively thousands of waypoints, following the M3 or the Thames or other ground features. What would the PLOG show you for that leg (or thousands of legs)? What would the instruments show while navigating it?

Tim, the Heli routes have to be flown visually so headings on a PLOG are irrelevant and as you say hundreds of waypoints would be silly. The best way I can think of is to use heli reporting points. E.g. If going H7 to H4 eastbound, use H7 Banstead to H7 Barnes for leg 1, then H7 Barnes to H4 Isle of Dogs, this is a common route. You can easily work out distances between each reporting point. You already have heights. Just leave heading blank. MSA irrelevant too.

Sure, that makes sense on the face of it. To actually implement such a system would be an enormous amount of work, and require fundamental changes to the way SkyDemon represents a planned route internally.

Without a really compelling need, this just isn't going to happen, sorry.