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? What is the easiest way to plan this flight?
Not that I would expect iFly to attempt to implement any, some, or all of these...
The ability to rubberband the route around those areas to be avoided with little boxes that would tally and update distance and flight time based on the aircraft profile, proposed altitude, forecast winds aloft.
Fuel prices that can be color coded as to their age, price trend, last time they were changed.
An automated route planner, similar what AirNav does with fuel planning for a flight but graphical as well. This would be dynamic and would change suggested fuel airports if the detours increased the flight time beyond a set threshold.
I could probably come up with more, but I really wouldn't expect even these to be implemented. After all, I should do SOMETHING to plan a flight besides to put in departure and destination.