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Tim Dawson (7/30/2014)
The resolution of your screenshots is not sufficient for us to understand what you're talking about, I'm afraid. You mentioned virtual radar, but that doesn't make sense because this feature has nothing to do with virtual radar. Only on the main map is the selected sector highlighted with a blue outline (and only when there are multiple sectors).

I see what you mean about the flight details tab, we will take it into consideration when designing potential future enhancements.


when I mentioned "virtual radar" in reference to the picture, is simply the nice fact, that the radar screen shows you the active leg ... in the case of that picture the first leg (hence it made sense from my point of view to mention this, as there is no other indication in my case / there is NO blue line, as you where mentioning, neither on the windows version, nor on the ipad, as you can see from the pics


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The resolution of your screenshots is not sufficient for us to understand what you're talking about, I'm afraid. You mentioned virtual radar, but that doesn't make sense because this feature has nothing to do with virtual radar. Only on the main map is the selected sector highlighted with a blue outline (and only when there are multiple sectors).

I see what you mean about the flight details tab, we will take it into consideration when designing potential future enhancements.
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Tim Dawson (7/30/2014)
Thanks Markus for the feedback. To be clear, the selected sector should have a big blue outline. Do you not see that on your PC?

Hi Tim,
just related my post regarding the Flight Details Tab while defining a multi Leg flight.
Right now I see that by clicking one of the legs the flight details tab fills with the respective data for that particular leg.
More preferable from my point of view would be to expand the tab by each leg and with that let the pilot scroll if necessary to the details within the same tab. this would allow simple data validation like tack off time for the following leg, fuel consumption etc .. 
Hope this helps to spin some thoughts for your great product to make it even better 
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Thanks Markus for the feedback. To be clear, the selected sector should have a big blue outline. Do you not see that on your PC?


I think Markus may have been referring to the iPad display. On the PC I see a faint blue surround to the selected sector (which could be more pronounced, or maybe better to dim magenta line for the non-selected sectors). On an Android tablet the blue surround is very thin and very faint and is easily missed if you don't know what to look for. I realise that you have not updated the Android and iPad versions to support this feature yet and am pleasantly surprised that it worked at all with split sectors - great stuff.



intact its the same on both devices .. as you can see from the virtual radar .. the first leg EDFE-EDRJ is active, but both legs incl the return are same colored.
its already great stuff, can not agree more, but some elements could be tuned a bit more
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Tim Dawson (7/30/2014)
Thanks Markus for the feedback. To be clear, the selected sector should have a big blue outline. Do you not see that on your PC?


Hi Tim, my windows version shows 3.0.8.0 and does NOT have a blue line .. even so I can't believe this has anything to do with Crossover on Mac OSX, so I will check the same under a true Windows VM.

Not sure if my lengthy text was clear ... colored segments are one element, the data entering on these and the combined view under one "Flight Detail" tab are the others. Happy to describe in more detail if needed, also offline.

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Tim Dawson (7/30/2014)
Thanks Markus for the feedback. To be clear, the selected sector should have a big blue outline. Do you not see that on your PC?


I think Markus may have been referring to the iPad display. On the PC I see a faint blue surround to the selected sector (which could be more pronounced, or maybe better to dim magenta line for the non-selected sectors). On an Android tablet the blue surround is very thin and very faint and is easily missed if you don't know what to look for. I realise that you have not updated the Android and iPad versions to support this feature yet and am pleasantly surprised that it worked at all with split sectors - great stuff.



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Thanks Markus for the feedback. To be clear, the selected sector should have a big blue outline. Do you not see that on your PC?
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Tim Dawson (7/23/2014)
As each sector is its own flight in its own right, they all have their own flight details window entries and so all have their own takeoff time field already.


Tim,
this new feature is highly appreciated ...

As I see based on your posted Beta, witch is running great on the Mac using Crossover, it works perfectly on the iPad as well.
One key question I got in mind: right now to enter different leg properties you select the leg and enter all data in the usual "Flight Details" Dab.

Unfortunately the colors are not changing regarding the leg you are selecting. It would be much easier to validate with leg you are editing, when the color of the legs between the start - land here - end would have different colors. Like a "active" vs inactive" state.

As a request I would prefer that all legs are edited in one single "Flight Details" window, witch would be simply extended each time a leg is created .. a color code also here would be appreciated as well.

I understand and support your philosophy of leaving much in the responsibility of the pilot vs automating through SD (e.g. Fuel calculation over several legs.
To make it easier for the pilot/user I would find it supportive to just have this one "Flight details" tab with several legs underneath, as this would make the manual entering of data much easier .. 
for example - pilot enters first start time and fuel as full; as SD estimates arrival time / duration as well as fuel consumption the pilot can simply enter now the respective data in the following leg as a starting point .. ideally SD would pre populate in light grey the minimum date as an estimate from the leg before to make it even more convenient for the pilot to actively enter the data / confirm that data, or in red as the fuel would not last for the second leg as a warning ...

I know some of this may definitely something for above and beyond your current scope, but in general this new feature is a massive plus for SD.

Keep up the great work and enhancements
Markus
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Another supporter for multi-sector plans here - being based at a non-UK non-customs airfield means all my flights back to the UK and the return are multi-hop to clear customs. I'll have a play with the MSI above, but for reference the Jepp method of a 'Route Pack' is adequate

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1. You're essentially asking for a new feature here. Please bear in mind what I wrote above about the limitations of what we're doing in the first instance. If you've got a multi-sector route and the selected sector is sector number 2, then SkyDemon navigation services essentially knows _nothing_ about sector 1 while you're flying. This could be a potential enhancement in the future, and that's the idea behind doing it in stages.

2. This is harmless and by design.
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