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HomeHomeDiscussionsDiscussionsiFly Wish-ListiFly Wish-ListDirectional barb for two-finger distance thingie?Directional barb for two-finger distance thingie?
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8/22/2015 4:47 PM
 

Update: Corrected middle graphic.

Okay, admittedly a small nit. I noticed that the two finger distance measuring tool now has "radial" (or is it "bearing"?) info as part of the label. (As below.) It also has two end points - a black dot and a red dot.



It's not clear to me from the colors which is the starting dot and which is the end dot. And, as a general comment, the color red usually means "bad" in our flying culture.

So I suggest instead a barb at the end of the line segment to more easily differentiate the direction component, and that the label be a "radial." (As mocked up below.) I also suggest that the first finger touch be the start point and the second finger be the end point, which would be reversed from the way it appears now.



Here's how I have used the distance tool so far: I'm flying along and notice a forest fire. I call it in to Flight Service, who wants to me to give them a fix off of a VOR. (Thankfully they don't ask for Lat/Long - yet. But it would be easy enough to give them that now via the Quick View window.)

So I first put my finger on the nearest VOR as the start point and then I put my second finger on the fire. I expect to see a distance and a radial. Instead I see a distance and a bearing. (Below.)



Or sometimes I'm doing a "what if" to some point from own ship. So I put my first finger on own ship, second finger on, say, a mountain top. But instead of getting the direction from own ship to the mountain, I get the reverse instead. I suggest the presentation in the mock up instead.

 
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8/22/2015 5:48 PM
 
I have to confess that i am Clueless on the "the two finger distance measuring tool " that you are writing about.
What is It? and How do you set it up?, i have looked in Setup/Mesuring tools with NO success????
what I know is that if you touch ANYWHERE on the chart you will get a distance FROM your plane, with a Lat/Long position in the pop-up window by the way, but your "two fingers thingie" would give me a distance from ANY TWO POINT that I touch on the Chart? please tell me how to do it, as it would be a good feature to have to measure outside the distance ring

I thank you in advance

Ciao
 
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8/22/2015 7:35 PM
 

It's like what it sounds. Just put two fingers on the screen (at the same time) and the "ruler" will pop up. You can do one finger first - then hold it and put down the other.

 
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8/22/2015 9:11 PM
 

You sure iFly does the ruler trick? I just tried it on my 740 and didn't work.

Seems like to me that it was a competitor product that did this (FF).

I like using the distance ring, but it wouldn't work for the example you gave.


Zodiac 601HDS N6402X aprs KF7WIR-1
 
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8/22/2015 9:50 PM
 

It works with the beta version.

 
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