iFly GPS Forum

Aladair and Walter, I still have a Lowrance Airmap 2000c that probably still works. I almost never did the OBS trick with it, but could probably figure it out again if you really want to know about it. (I also have a little Airmap 500 that powered up last year. I flew all over the country with that little monochrome thing about 20 years ago and thought I was in heaven when the 2000c came out.)

Ho!  Wait a minute. I just found a pdf of the 2000c manual. Will this forum take a 3.9 MB attachment?  If not, I can email it.

I like the idea of being able to create a "fly course xxx" from any arbitrary point.  Such instructions come from ATC all the time in my neighborhood, whether flying IFR or VFR flight following.

Not immediately clear to me how to make that work with an existing flight plan.  In practice when this happens from ATC, the flight plan is essentially temporarily set aside, and then eventually ATC will say "resume own navigation" or "cleared direct XXYYZ" (some waypoint that was already in your previously-cleared plan), at which point I'd pick "direct to" the appropriate waypoint in my plan to get back on track.

Don, thanks for offering but I probably don't need to see the Lowrance manual, I get the general gist of how it works. 

Hook, thanks for your opinion and I agree VORs are phasing out, I don't like spending development resources on a feature that won't have a nice long shelf life.  This is also why I'm trying to drill into the *why* of this feature, so we can solve the problem without multiple other benefits.

Cobra, you mention you want to "fly course xxx from any arbitrary point".  You can do this now...first dock the arbitrary point into your flight plan (or your ownship if you want to fly "from"), then touch & bend the route line - you will notice we paint the distance & bearing on the route line, just drop a waypoint at the appropriate bearing. It will be Magnetic or True based on your setting.

This solution would almost work to fly to/from a VOR, except VOR radials don't match magnetic north.  But, a simple modification to this feature...if the docked waypoint is a VOR we could show the radial degrees instead of bearing.  Thoughts on this?