I assume that you are one of the developers KeepCalm, as you joined PPrune purely to praise Flight Assistant. Brilliant, perhaps you have some thoughts over the major issues I've found in trying it out over the last couple of days:-
- Very clear vector mapping, but most towns not named.
- Large chunks of controlled airspace missing compared to V1.
- Like V1, still provides no display of the class or upper and lower heights of controlled airspace.
- Controlled airspace alerts not working.
- Lovely clear terrain avoidance display, but no way to change the scale on it, either horizontally or vertically that I can find.
- Despite turning it on, no visibility of the track I've flown.
I suspect at the moment that it's all very "lightweight" as you call it, because so little works. I'm finding it rather less useful than MemoryMap at the moment - which is a shame because "apparently" it should be excellent with nice clear displays, one touch on/off on terrain avoidance, I really like the simple arrival brief information, and it appears that the aircraft setup and W&CG pages are pretty good - albeit that I've not had time to do much with them so far. On the screen it's very stable and readable, and the vector dots are a nice representation. For a cheap product, the basic AIP plates are fine so long as you have a decent sized screen. I want to like it.
But unless I can trust and use the controlled airspace data - just about the single most important function of a moving map, then it's going to get deleted and the trial cancelled long before the month is out. Similarly, I really want to be able to control the distance I'm looking at terrain over.
It does feel at the moment like a product where the developers have concentrated on the look, feel and fringe add-ons, before getting the core functions right.
G