I would like to request an option to either not show various classes of warnings or to dismiss them once they have been displayed. I discussed this with the SD guys at the LAA rally and it was suggested that I should post here.

I fly in an area that is very mountainous and it is nearly impossible to plan a route that doesn't throw up multiple unnecessary MSA warnings. I'm flying VFR (SkyDemon is a VFR package) so I can see well enough that there are hills around me. Up here is is common practice to be flying below the mountain tops otherwise we'd often not get flying at all, so the MSA warnings are superfluous. Of course, if I am planning a route across the mountains then I am interested in MSA but otherwise I can do without the red warnings crowding out more important parts of the flight details panel.

Recently the W&B has started putting in an appearance in red too, telling me that the aircraft is overloaded or some-such. It isn't - I merely haven't chosen to set up the W&B envelope data. It's good that SD is getting all these clever features but the plethora of warnings is starting to border on nagware now. There is a significant risk that important warnings that I DO need to know about get lost in the meele.

So my request is that we can either configure these warning off (by warning class) or we can dismiss them once they have been displayed. If you must, put a red line at the bottom saying that certain warnings have been dismissed, so you can click and get them back.

John

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