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Here's another way to do it.

Currently, when you clear the flight plan, what you get is a blank page with a button on it: "Set Departure Point". So you have to click a button before you can enter the departure airport.

So, again, two options for iFly when you click "Clear":

1) If you're not currently at an airport, no change in behavior: You get a blank plan with a button labeled "Set Departure Point".

2) If you're at an airport, then iFly auto-populates the departure point with the airport you're sitting at. If you don't want that airport as your departure point, you click "Opt>Change this Waypoint", and enter the airport you want. (Still one additional button press, but I think this will rarely be used.)

This approach doesn't require any changes to the user interface. (No new buttons or highlighted fields or pre-populated user input boxes.)

Planned a flight using the latest beta software yesterday, and whaddya know? When I set the departure point, iFly suggested the airport I was sitting at!

It made me very happy. Thanks, AP!

Okay, now that auto-detect origin is here, I'm wishing for a variation on a theme.

I was on a flight from Phx to Hou. (Non-stop, due to good tail winds.)

My pax was feeling bad about a third into the flight. We had to land early.

Once on the ground, I wanted to take my original flight plan and simply change out my original Departure airport (the first in the list) with my new, impromptu Departure airport.

I expected that iFly would auto-detect my new departure point and offer it for me when I hit "Change waypoint."

It didn't.

Would be cool if it did.