David Merchant wrote:Let me go about this a different way, and get the accumulated wisdom from the group.
Assume the worst:
1. you have a very long flight plan, with at least 5 fillups necessary to your destination.
2. a major portion of your trip is out west, where airports (and fuel) are few and far between.
3. there are lots and lots of smallish detours to avoid MOA's, B, C, and D's, and the "popup" restricted areas.
4. you sit down at your iFlyGPS to plan this flight. What would be you ideal tool setup? ...
I just read this thread out of curiosity. The initial idea seems reasonable, but my hair of curled with the scenario you propose here.
I would hate to see the iFly UI and displays compromised to any significant degree in order to accommodate such a low probability scenario. By "low probability" I mean low probability across all iFly users. I would also hate to see significant design and coding resources expended. Said another way, I think there would be so little benefit coming from designing for such an outlier that I would not like to see much cost expended to do so.