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Hi Ian:

Well, you know that someone will implement voice recognition on an EFB someday. (Cars already have it.) Might as well be iFly.

As for understanding Fixes, I understand. A lot of times in flight I don't understand what ATC is saying either. So I'll most often just repeat back phonetically what I hear and then find it on the chart. (And if I can't figure it out, I'll ask ATC to spell it out.)

Since we're brainstorming, the logic could do this: offer a list of fixes within 20 miles that sound like what you said. Or, since understanding phonetics is probably too hard for tablets (I just spoke "FIXEM" into my smart phone and google thought I said "Fix Some"), there would be the requirement that you spell out the FIX using ICAO alphabet. That makes voice recognition easier. (Although my phone got the FIX part right - so iFly could present a list of intersections starting with FIX.) iFly could use its already implemented logic to give you a short list of fixes, like it already does in the FP page. You say "iFly, choose two." (Like my Dragon Natural Speaking.)

The reason I would want to see where the IFR fixes are is to know where the traffic is that just reported to the controller over fixem, or they are cleared to fixem, etc. I have no idea where they are or are headed now.

For the next beta release, we are showing fixes out a little further. We're trying not to do it too far, so that we don't annoy those who might not want to see these. And we're trying to avoid the addition of another Layer option, so we're walking the fence between liberal and conservative on making these Fixes accessible, in a fashion that helps those who want to see them, without annoying those who don't.

PS: For non-beta testers, to reiterate, Fixes show up in Vector Mode for 9.4.

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Brian Knox, Sr Software Engineer