Cobra wrote:
Sorry, Jim. Walter asked folks how important they thought the feature was. For me, it's not important at all--if the screen ever changed orientation away from portrait mode while I was using it, it would not be desirable. I would turn off the feature to prevent that from occurring.
I recognize others may find this feature desirable. I was simply voicing my own personal opinion, as Walter requested.
I think the point is that auto-rotation does not mean changing orientation without the pilot physically rotating the tablet and typically includes the ability to turn off the feature altogether. I know that from trying a pretty good number of apps that do it.
As I said it's not a priority for me either since I haven't rotated my tablet in flight in 3 years except to see if I wanted to (the same period of time in which my app has not changed orientation all by itself).