This just gets better and better.



I love the new integrated route planner/plog feature.



I've just been playing with today's beta release and would like to suggest a couple of improvements.



1) When pressing 'Accept' on the startup screen there can be a long-ish delay until anything happens - please can you indicate that the system is starting up (e.g grey out the buttons) so that I'm sure that my button push has been accepted. This applies not just to this release, but all previous releases have the same niggle.



2) The wind instrument: I would like the wind barb to rotate when using a 'heading-up' display so that I can have an immediate idea of relative wind direction and strength. Can we have a third option to show X-Wind so that the instrument can display wind barb, head/tailwind or crosswind from Left/Right.



Keep up the great work.

We've changed the extended runways again, and the change will be in today's new beta release (when it happens). The "active" runway centreline (the closest one) remains the same, but the inactive ones are now less obstrusive. They are drawn as translucent green shaded arrows, with the runway identifier at the end. The length remains the same: they all project out to 15nm from the threshold. I look forward to hearing more feedback about them.

We have also made several performance optimizations that should speed up map redrawing by up to 40% on all devices, including when FIRs are turned on. Hopefully this will work well for the German case.

Looking forward to these next changes. Just another note on map drawing speeds (perhaps more relevant to Germany than other places). If the upper limit on airspace drawn on the chart is increased from the default (ie from 4000' to 6000') this also noticeably slows down redrawing time (this was where my 5-6 seconds came from, with FIR turned off,..although still acceptable and understandable). If the height is set back at the default setting of 4000' the redraw only takes about 2-3 seconds, which is fine.

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