I love the custom waypoint creation feature in Navigraph, I use it all the time in VFR flight plans to stick points down where there are easily discernible ground features like towns, lakes, forests, and all sorts of others.
Right now whenever you plop a custom waypoint down, it will appear in the “navigation map layer” by default. To my knowledge there’s no way to change that.
It would be great if we could have the ability to toggle whether our custom waypoint is a VFR or IFR waypoint, so that when we use filters on the map and exclude the VFR ones, all of my custom VFR waypoints don’t still appear!
This a good idea. What i miss the most in foreflight is to hold down on a way point and it gave me the option to move it to a different waypoint and or delete it. This helped tremendously when getting vectored or rerouted.
Hmm, please clarify your scenario here @Mattadee . You can control the user waypoints separately from any other waypoints, and user waypoints are always shown by default regardless of preset. You can configure it here:
Was this not the case when you made this topic? As far as I can remember, we have not changed this recently. Or perhaps I am misunderstanding you somehow?
@swaluver480 I assume that your post is off-topic since I cannot make sense of it in this context. Please correct me if I am wrong! It sounds like you should make a concrete suggestion of an addition to our app in a dedicated topic in this Wishlist forum section.
Here’s a quick demonstration of something similar to what you’re mentioning. This only works on the web and desktop platforms today.
Thanks for getting in touch. I’ll try to elaborate below.
So right now, the user waypoints are included under the “Navigation” tab. The other features in this tab (such as airways, holding patterns, ground-based nav aids and GPS/VNAV waypoints) indicate this selection of tools is primarily intended for when I am flying IFR.
However my own personal use case for the user waypoints feature is for landmarks on the ground, like towers, power stations, and natural features like mountains and islands. For example in the UK where I do most of my sim flying I have custom waypoints in some Scottish lochs, small towns and cities, and other distinct landmarks/features useful for VFR navigation.
It would be great if there was an option when creating a custom waypoint to assign it to the “VFR Navigation” tab and have a different symbol (identical or similar to the current VFR waypoint symbol, a triangle inside a circle) so that these custom VFR waypoints are separate from my IFR custom waypoints, and appear under the relevant tab.
I hope that makes some more sense? If you’re not sure or have further questions let me know!
I have a follow-up question. What waypoints do you have that are unique to IFR? Why would you need to keep them separate? You have outlined your usage of these waypoints for VFR, but so far I don’t see any reason to split them up into IFR/VFR.
You can already hide user waypoints in the IFR presets and show them in VFR. I assume you have some other use case for IFR custom waypoints?
I don’t personally have any waypoints which are used solely for IFR - mine are all landmarks which would only be relevant to VFR flight plans. Because they were featured under the regular navigation tab along with other nav aids I had assumed I was the exception and not the rule! If nobody is using this feature to build custom fixes for IFR flight plans then no separation would be required - but it would be nice if the icon for custom waypoints was either the same as the icon for a VFR waypoint, or a completely different symbol (as right now it’s the same symbol on the chart for a custom waypoint and a regular GPS fix.
