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3/21/2021 12:43 PM
 
The RNAV approach plates to runway headings is and provides a safe VFR approach to most any runway. Also there is an instrument called TARGET ALTITUDE that will help place you at the correct altitude on that approach at each waypoint. If you haven't tried that its worth your time and fuel. My suggestion would be to use the TARGET ALTITUDE data and build a new instrument called maybe "RNAV APPROACH SLOPE" so as not to be confused with Glide slope and provide altitude reference from one way point to to next. This could be displayed as the familiar horizontal scale or even a digital scale based on distance , altitude and position. Seems like that would be easy within the programming world. The display may need to be original such that no one confuses it with the Glide slope using IFR for real. Realizing that altitude on a GPS approach is not as accurate as a glide slope but we are talking VFR here and who knows maybe one day this will become the norm and iFLY will have introduced it first.
 
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3/22/2021 5:44 AM
 

If you subscribe to the IFR data package, so that you get access to the IFR approaches, then iFly already does what you're asking for in a different way.  The approaches (most of them, anyway) include FAA-supplied altitude constraints for waypoints along the approach.  iFly already has a "Vertical Speed to Targe" (VST) instrument that calculates your required descent rate (or ascent rate if your next waypoint is higher than your current altitude). 

Load the approach, fly the approach, and use the existing VST instrument for guidance to achieve your target altitudes along the approach.

That said, I don't know why a VFR pilot would want to fly an IFR approach as an aid to a VFR landing.  It's not consistent with the normal VFR landing pattern and puts the plane in potential conflict with IFR aircraft flying the approach.

 
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