HI, I would like to have a small feature when approaching an airport.
It would be nice if ther would be an option that the charts zoom in so I can see the ground charts when the aircraft vacate the runway (maybe less then 60 ktn) or a trigger via simconnect).
It would be great if we could have an auto-zoom function from and to the airport diagram for taxi guidance. It’s quite cumbersome after landing for example to have to find the destination aerodrome and then pinch to zoom and centre the map appropriately. Maybe if charts could detect when the aircraft has achieved taxi speed and then automatically switch to this view? The same would be good after takeoff - an automatic switch over from the detailed airport diagram to the flight plan route?
Really surprised how little attention this is getting. Having to zoom in on myself from outer space at the beginning of every flight is getting old fast. It’s as if the auto zoom option doesn’t do anything at all.
I would really prefer not to have it zoom in on charts, but rather zoom in on the map to one click above maximum zoom. This is the best feature for taxiing because it encompasses gates, ramps, taxiways, and practically the whole airport. Better than fumbling between individual charts and the airport diagram chart when you have better things to do. I was thinking of having a button to do this, but having it auto zoom behind the chart you might be looking at during final approach is something I hadn’t thought of and reallly like. Personally I wish I had both. Would be useful to quickly zoom both departure and arrival airfports.
Auto-zoom will probably come in the next update of charts
Currently there is a button available for zooming in on the airport, but perhaps we should make it zoom in a little bit more? (see attached images)
Hello, nice to hear that it is worked on that feature.
Would be also very important for me.
Regarding the initial zoom step: best would be that the user have an option to choose the value himself.
Perfect would be a kind of dynamic automatic zoom:
According to aircrafts speed when on ground, the map zoom will change
Here is a kind of zoom step I would choose at EHAM.
But it could be difficult as smaller airports or airfields need a lot closer zoom.
This feature is available IRL with navAero; when the aircraft decelerates below 70kts, the selected chart (Approach plate) will switch to the moving map and zoom tracking the taxi layout.
Similarly when speed exceeds 70kts, the selected departure plate will not switch but the moving map in the background will move from taxi layout to tracking mode on the selected route.
This would be a really beneficial feature to aid with awareness especially not having to switch charts post landing.
While this button is great to use. It’s not the easiest/quickest to access. For example, my normal flow: after loading the flight plan, I will go to select the destination approach which helpfully zooms into the airport to allow filtering through the possible arrivals. After selecting, the UI goes back to the full “Flights” overlay and stays zoomed in on the destination. To get back to where I am, I then need to click the “i” of the origin airport, click the locate pin you point to, and then zoom back in to get the taxi/apron detail. So taking three steps to do. I also use the Charts app on a Microsoft Surface tablet, and to be honest it’s not the best experience to do all those steps on this device.
If a simple “zoom to aircraft” button could be added adjacent to the “show full route map” button in the main UI that both goes to my position and zooms in to the airport (only when on the ground), it would speed the experience up greatly. I may be mistaken, but didn’t we used to have this feature in older versions of the app?
Of course, there is also the “enable moving maps button”. You could use this as well to snap back to the aircraft (by disabling and then re-enabling moving maps), but this has also grown in the number of steps required since online networks were added to the app.