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On the "Restore" vs "Previous plan" - this distinction might be too much for my small brain, especially when oxygen deprived in flight.

On first blush it seems to me that any change to a flight plan is a change, and so I would be "restoring" to a previous.

I think what you're saying is that a Restore puts you back in Sequence to where you should be on an unamended flight plan? So maybe "Reset" would be a better term?

Regardless, I suggest putting Restore (or Reset) where the text of Previous Plan is, just so my eyes can find it.

(BTW, I had an opportunity to use the new Direct/Previous logic the other day in flight. We had some terrifying looking wx pop up on NEXRAD while coming home. I initially decided to go Direct to an off Plan airport. Then, after gathering more data in flight, decided to go back to my Previous Plan. It all worked so well, I didn't have to think about how to do it. Which is what you want in an EFB.)

Also, this brings up a nuance I was thinking about the day of the screen shot. Let's say I have a 3 point flight plan that doglegs around a Restricted Area to my destination.

As I approach the dogleg/Restricted Area, ATC tells me I can go "Direct" to my Destination. So I guess that's why the "D's" are there in the Flight Plan legs.

Even tho I acknowledge that "Direct" is the word used from ATC, in my mind, in Flight Plan think, I'm merely Sequencing to the next leg in the Plan. So perhaps "Activate" would be a better button label? (After all, the new green coloring changes now to highlight the Active leg.)

And then ATC changes its mind and tells me that I can't fly in the Restricted Area. So then I would Reset the recent Activation I just did.

(Admittedly some really fine polish here.)

I just realized that making the past course segments white might not work well with the Vector map. So, how about if the black border in the course line disappeared for past flown segments? (It's subtle - I wonder how many users know about the black fill showing the end of climb and beginning of descent?)