There are a lot of aircrafts without flight management computers or even with flight management computers, not all have vnav. Most of your users are never going to fly an airliner in RL, but some fly GA or will aspire to PPL from the sim. SimBrief calculates and visualize a very nice vertical profile, but without knowing the distance to TOC and TOD, it’s not easy to use the profile when programming GPS units or actual flying.
There are also excellent veteran airlines and airplanes in MSFS where this would be a welcome feature.
Any updates on this one for the roadmap? I’d love to be able to measure how far off course I am while navigating DR, as well as calculate fuel burn etc. via the whizzwheel. Hard to do that when no distance measurement available right now! I find myself using both Charts on the iPad and LNM just so I can measure distance. Wishlisted :).
I would find it useful, when flying VFR, to be able to report to an airfield approach or tower controller my distance from their location. Is there any way that a distance measuring tool could be incorporated into the VFR maps please?
Thanks
I installed navigraph the other week and while I find it really featured and enjoyable.
Seriously, not having a way to measure the distance and bearing from a VOR makes it a bit of a joke.
That was the most essential tool in aviation navigation!
Im sorry but I cant take Navigraph seriously until this very basic feature is implemented.
Yes I am pretty sure that if I am in a unknown area and I need to find an airstrip in the middle of nowhere that does not even show in the GPS I don’t need a ruler, i need “integration with online netwoks”
You are more than welcome to have an opinion on this! I would also love to have something like this in Charts personally, so I definitely see where you are coming from.
We use the wishlist to gauge interest, and while there are other topics with more votes, this topic is clearly important too - it is in the top 4! As already mentioned, we do have this on our roadmap.
Sorry that my original post had a bit of a disrespectful tone. I am learning that Navigraph has a background and tradition of airline aviation. I suppose that most of your settled user base probably find a measuring tool not interesting at all. But if you want to expand the scope towards piston GA, VFR, old fashioned aviation I think the measuring tool is something that just has to be there regarding votes.
Most of people who need a measuring tool and cant find it will disregard Navigraph altogether.
And the need is very real:
Garmin deleted a lot of small airstrips from their database:
So if you dont know the exact location of an airstrip I think measuring the bearing and distance from a VOR turns out to be essential. Not just a fancy, charming old fashioned legacy tool.
Not giving this feature a priority have will alienate a lot of potential users. I dont have a PHD in Marketing but im pretty sure that potential users dont vote for requests.
Pretty simple, would love to have a ruler measurement feature (Either NM or KM per settings) to use both in the main Map, and in chart plates (that one might be pretty tricky, would love the former first, then maybe that second feature later).
… According to our current plans, this is scheduled to begin development in Q3 2023, however keep in mind these plans are fluid and can change depending on other priorities.
Cheers Ian
A year and a half later and still… I guess this will never happen… a shame I need to run a second chart app in parallel just for that…