iFly GPS Forum

REF: Color of towers, wind turbines and other man-made obstructions

Let me start out by saying I love the IFly and all you guys who are the programmers, designers and business staff - outstanding job.

I feel almost greedy asking for anything else, as the system is by far the best I have ever flown with in my decades of flying GA.

OK, so around me I have a lot of towers, wind-turbines, some very tall buildings and nuclear reactors right near runways - just the way it is...

Right now the BLACK tower symbols fade into the BLUE SKY in synthetic vision.  

WISH: Can there be a way to change the color from BLACK to WHITE or SILVER or YELLOW to give them more contrast  when taking off or landing near them?  I could hardly see them on the SV last week during a take-off where I got vectored into high terrain with towers atop the terrain.  This happened at Capitol City Airport in PA and Dulles INTL in VA.

This is not urgent, critical or a high-priority. In fact, I may be the only one to ever ask for it! 

Example photo below - turning into towers I could not see on SV.

OK, thanks in advance for your consideration. Keep up the great work!

Mike Marra, N714AJ

Mike, my boss says "he's got a good point" and told me to do something about it.  So I did.   Modified the graphics for obstructions to now be white with black outline, to guarantee contrast in any context.   How do you like this?  (will be in 10.3)

Note, you can barely see them here, but for buildings, I changed the window-grids to be very light now (near white), to ensure similar high contrast.