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Radial Distance Option

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Topic: Radial Distance Option

Posted By: Larryo
Subject: Radial Distance Option
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 9:58pm

Avidyne,

Consider an option to define a radial/distance from a wpt. An example might be from an airport and one would put in the 360 radial, with a distance of 1 mile...... the 360 may represent the runway, define an obstacle area and the 1 mile would define a good circle area. It would show as a colored line and circle.

We had this handy feature in the old (and new) Boeings that was very handy at times.

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Larryo

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Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 9:20am

Done.

The initial release of the IFD540 currently has several means to define User Waypoints:

1. Lat/Lon

2. Bearing/Distance from another point (Place, Bearing, Distance)

3. Radial/Radial intersections

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com

Posted By: Larryo
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 11:17am

Steve,

Understand, but my thought was to have a circle and radial drawn on the map. Perhaps this could be defined on your wpt page.

I've sent you a picture to your email address, as I don't know how to attach a PDF here.

Food for thought.

Larry

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Larryo

Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 11:33am

Ahh, understood, now I get it. I'll add it to our heap of candidate features. Not sure if it'll make the cut yet but we'll evaluate it.

(and yes, attaching files to this forum isn't feasible yet - we're looking at ways to provide that capability.

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com