Ctrl-click to create a waypoint is by no means obvious, but I was actually referring to the first part; to dogleg a route, click on the route then click on the waypoint by which you want to break it.

Hello Tim,
Just tried to install on my device and got the following message (after upgrading to NET 3.5)

'Cant find an entry point 'SHIdleTimerReset' in a PInvoke DLL 'aygshell.dll'

Then it quits....


Any idea how to resolve?
Thanks,

Paul.

What's "obvious" is what people are used to.

What people are used to is Google maps.

A similar interface would be to drag a segment of the route, which would rubber-band it as two segments, and you could then drop the new vertex onto a waypoint.

If indeed you really need to create the waypoints first; people might like to just drag bits of their route around to avoid CAS, glider sites etc without having to do a separate operation to create a new waypoint for each vertex. Even better might be to auto-create new waypoints for each vertex, present them suitably in the plan (eg as bearing/distance from a VOR/DME, something that's easy to enter into a GPS), but not persist them other than with the particular route.

CRX, thanks, it seems some devices don't have that DLL and so I've added detection for this ready for the next release so you then won't encounter this error.

Gertrude, you're absolutely right and I've added rubber-band dragging of turning points and route segments in the next version. It works well and is more intuitive than the current release.

I'd love it if it exported to my Garmin 296...I'd love it even more if it did this before this saturday so I can try it out on my next flight :}

And, of course, had data for Benelux and Germany! :ok:

What is involved in adding data for you? NL doesn't have that many airports to enter, for a start...if it's easy I could have a crack at it.

Can the Garmin 296 read .gpx files? I've added preliminary support for exporting to that format ready for this week's release.

Assembling data for airfields is pretty straightforward and this week's release will allow you to do this. You'll need to compile an airfields file and a runways file, both in .csv format. I'll get the formats documented and put the documentation on the SkyAngel website.

Hmm, none of the Garmin manuals appear to say anything at all about using their software. Helpful...

I'll play around tonight and try to find out.

Excellent work so far.

Could the software automatically check for updates?

Hi Tim

I just quickly scanned through all of the threads and have not downloaded the software (yet).

But regarding the conversation on whether to display or not display airways (and other things for that matter).

It might be useful to have a configuration file where most of these setting can be kept so that users can customize the software so that all of their default settings will be the same again when they login the next time.

Your screen-prints look great though and I will comment some more once I've had a chance to play with it.

Vabsie

Don't know about Garmin, but my AvMap EKP IV has GPX-USRIMG converter !!

Look forward to trying SkyAngel Plan, especially since AvMap ended support for the PC-Planner from C-Map (and just as well, since it was c**p).

This might be very good solution :ok:

vabsie, that's exactly how it works. You can turn most mapped entities on or off, on the main map. Regardless of whether they're turned on or not, they appear in the enroute features window if you clash with them. And regardless of your setting above which airspace is not shown, if you plot a route at that altitude, it IS shown.

bambuko, the new version that'll be released this week has the ability to export to .GPX but I've done it by referencing what's in the GPX reference only, so there's a chance it won't work. Feel free to private message me and I'll get an early version to you if you'd like to test it.

We also have fuel planning in this week's release.

I have just tried downloading it and link not working ?

Tim:

will this run on the small FlyAngel/Road Angel hardware, i.e. the Navigator 5000/7000 series? I am never sure whether they are running Windows CE or something else! I ask because I have both in the family, having bought FlyAngel a couple of years ago from the then UK agent. I like it because it has a long battery life (no power feed in the cockpit) and I can strap it to my leg (little space in the cockpit!).

jxc, link now working. Server problems.

Justiciar, I have absolutely no idea I'm afraid.

Tim - one more thing: Can we add the ability to find / search by ICAO code?

I just tried EGBB in the find box - no luck!

EGBB works just fine; you did write in capitals, like the box tells you to, right?

PICNIC. :ugh:

In my defence the seach bar on the menu strip doesn't say anything about caps!

Tim - why is it so fussy about capitalisation? egbb doesn't work, but EGBB does; LIVERPOOL doesn't work but liverpool does! Maybe consider retrying the search with different capitalisation if no results from first find - might improve useability.


C.

Oh, THAT box! Yeah, that one doesn't give you any hints about uppercase. You'll be pleased to hear that since many people have missed this feature, you no longer have to use uppercase when searching by identifier in the forthcoming version (due tomorrow).

Tim,

this looks great, but it won't run on my Mac....

Funnily enough, neither will the AFPEX site. Is there a message here for mac owners?
:ooh:

Same message there always has been for buying computer hardware. The correct order is:

(1) decide what applications you want to run

(2) research on what hardware you can run those applications

(3) choose from what you've found.