Future Version Suggestions / Requests

[Alitalia]

Hello
i write again my question : is possible to create  a "style VCR" for the recorded flights? If I register for a whole night, then I am forced to stay eight hours in front of the monitor to find an interesting flight ... very uncomfortable...
Let me know please
Bye
Patrizio

[GlynH]

Hi Alitalia,

This is already covered in Terre's list although its description could be altered a little for clarity maybe?

15.    Flight recorder - Faster playback of recordings

Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-

[Terre]

Some more ideas:

- Ability to draw temporary lines/dots on the map (as in PowerPoint presentation)
- Ability to measure distances with mouse- "Ruler" (as in Google Earth)
- Ability to show/hide Outlines & Fixes, etc. by single/group selection
- User definable aircraft symbols (eg. triangle, dot, cross, etc.)

[Terre]

Here an updated list of suggestions made on the forum by many users.

Note: I gave my best to find as many suggestions as I could. However, the list does not claim to be complete, thus it does not contain each and every suggestions ever made on here. The attached excel spread sheet contains links to the post/s on the forum where more information on each suggestion can be found.

# Module Suggestion
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1 Alerts - Ability to click aircraft and jump to MyFLights entry & map
2 Alerts - Conditional Alerts (Excel style)
3 Alerts - Different actions for different alerts
4 Alerts - Different E-Mails for certain alerts
5 Alerts - Different sounds for different alerts
6 Alerts - Identification of alerts by Mode-S/Registration
7 Alerts - Keep a log of alerts
8 Alerts - Send SMS on alert
9 Alerts - Start record on alert
10 Desktop - Customizable toolbars – show selected icons only
11 Desktop - Moveable Toolbars
12 Desktop - Place interface at bottom
13 Desktop - Support dual display
14 Desktop - Undockable windows
15 Filter bar - International default data in drop down lists
16 Flight recorder - Faster playback of recordings - Option to speed up or scan recording file
17 Flight recorder - Record network traffic (at least for a certain region)
18 FTP  - Configurable FTP upload times
19 FTP  - Enhanced FTP information as number of flights tracked etc.
20 General - Different Lat/Lon format usage for display on map and entry in fields – have same format
21 General - Network traffic output
22 General - Option to allow the user to draw/edit Fixes, etc.
23 General - Port 30003 format
24 General - Remember all settings & screen setup
25 General - Squawk lookup
26 General - Update Database via Internet, registrations get updated automatically & download a picture
27 General - Use display style of contemporary software of air traffic control
28 Grid - Ability to add the symbols to the grid: 'Heard' 'ACARS' 'Visual'
29 Grid - Alternate lines in color (user defined color)
30 Grid - List of aircraft not „jumping“
31 Grid - User defined order of grid columns (MyFlights, etc.)
32 Grid / Map - Aircraft with curent alert colored
33 Interface - Show country of registration in flight details
34 Interface - Show counts flights received/ADS-B flights
35 Interface - Show/hide flight details
36 Interface Grid - Blank or numeric FlightID: use registration/stripped dahes, etc. to look up logo file
37 Map - 3 dimensional polar diagram
38 Map - Ability to draw temporary lines/dots on the map (as in PowerPoint presentation)
39 Map - Ability to measure distance with mouse (Google Earth style)
40 Map - Ability to select different options how flight tag is displayed (eg. Eurocat style)
41 Map - Ability to show/hide Outlines & Fixes by single/group selection
42 Map - Airways name
43 Map - Bearing and Distance to a target on map/to mouse position
44 Map - Display the route on the map for Non-ADS/B aircraft with Flight ID & valid route
45 Map - Draw trail line instead of dots for network flights
46 Map - Flash tags on Squawk ident
47 Map - Go to flight on Alert
48 Map - Highlight fix on map upon locate
49 Map - Longer trail lines (user definable time)
50 Map - Only show aircraft in a specific area
51 Map - Option to show/hide different fixes
52 Map - Pure full screen - no bars, no frame
53 Map - Real weather on map
54 Map - Rotate Map
55 Map - Select aircraft with mouse click and keep selected
56 Map - Shorter path vector (eg. One dot per 100 kts GS)
57 Map - Smaller increments when zooming in and out on map, or user selectable increments
58 Map - Smooth moving network traffic/path prediction (user sets this on/off)
59 Map - Tracks of aircraft to be displayed after aircraft time out
60 Map - Up/Down Arrows in tag
61 Map - User definable aircraft symbol (eg. Triangle, dot, cross, etc.)
62 Map - User definable aircraft tag (show only data selected)
63 Map - User definable Symbols for altitude change
64 Map & Interface - Highlight alerts in Grid/Map
65 Map & Interface - Show pop-up with details of selected aircraft on map/grid
66 MyLog - Ability to search using the keyboard
67 MyLog - Add sort function in MyLog
68 MyLog - Allow any date in MyLog (not just Today/Yesterday)
69 MyLog - Edit complete record / more than one cell at a time
70 MyLog - Print function for Mylog grid
71 MyLog - Search MyLog for FlightID
72 MyLog - Select fields of report
73 MyLog - Show real „Yesterday“ in MyLog (not Yesterday minus Today)
74 Preference - Adjust time for new flight to detect whether a new flight has started
75 Reports - Sort standard DAILY & YESTERDAY reports by Aircraft.Registration then Flights.EndTime
76 Smartview - Display METAR info in „MetarViewer“ style
77 Smartview - Include all alerts in Fleet Watch list - double-click aircraft in Fleet Watch to centre on
78 Smartview - Show/hide Weatherinfo in Smartview

[Alitalia]

Hi Alitalia,

This is already covered in Terre's list although its description could be altered a little for clarity maybe?

15.    Flight recorder - Faster playback of recordings

Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-

Thanks Glyn
my suggestion is : RR(Rewind) FF(Fast Forward) ,etc to see quickly all the air traffic recorded.
Bye
Patrizio

[GlynH]

Thanks Glyn
my suggestion is : RR(Rewind) FF(Fast Forward) ,etc to see quickly all the air traffic recorded.
Bye
Patrizio

Or better still some sort of media player bar with Stop, Pause, Play, Beginning, End (maybe FF/REW) and a slider bar showing progress much like most of the media players out there?

Even a simplified interface such as the standard Microsoft Sound Recorder that has been present in most versions of Windows would do the job.

Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-

[rnsavage]

Great list Terre

Some things I have been thinking about since playing with Beta 3, and having now taken my RB to Paris and Amsterdam.

1. Reported - ability to create a list of arrival and depatures listing for a specific day, in time order. Based on altitude and distance from your location?

There is a poster on our local Manchester group who can do this from an SBS utility to show any aircraft that landed or departed from MAN (EGCC), so not quite sure how it is done.

2. Ability to have multiple filters in MyFlights. You can only select one "Quick Filter"

3. Preference to set specific aircraft types not to be displayed in MyFlights (and in Map if ADSB).

For example, I am not interested in light aircraft like Cessna 152s. On a recent trip to AMS, I had quite a few showing like that.

Would also like these not to be logged in MyLog.

With the recent CAA news, I guess more and more aircraft will start to be logged, hence why it will be good to have a block on aircraft people are not interested in

Thanks AirNav for all the hard work, it is appreciated by myself

Rick

[Terre]

Vote for your most wanted new feature!

Hi forum,
I've set up a poll with the features named on the "wish list" in this thread.
Just out of curiosity, I would like to ask anyone interested to follow the
link below and vote for his most wanted features. Thank you.

> http://harvester.gofreeserve.com/poll.html

Using Firefox? Take this Link: http://harvester.gofreeserve.com/poll_fox.html

[GlynH]

Terrific idea Terre...nice one!

Well I have placed my votes...looking good.

Thanks again for taking the time.

Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-

[Allocator]

Terre,

I'm using FirFox and the text on the voting page overlaps so that it's unreadable.  This may just be a FireFox issue?

[AirNav Development]

Received from a user and adding it to this discussion.
"I do not know if this is possible but when you click a spot and drag the courser and instead of moving the map it shows the bearing and a line from where you clicked to the current mouse position (like a real radar at ATC would)?"

PS. when developing a new version the first thing we will do is to read this forum topic so please make sure all the suggestions are written/noted here.

[Terre]

@ Allocator

Thanks for your info. And yes, it seems to be a Firefox issue -  I do get the overlaps on my system using FF, too. Will try to fix it.

Edit: Firefox issue should be solved. (Some good old breaks <BR> did the trick. See special Link in post.

[malc41]

Allocator, terre

Yes the overlap seems to be a firefox issue, tried it in IE and it was OK

[Terre]

Received from a user and adding it to this discussion.
"I do not know if this is possible but when you click a spot and drag the courser and instead of moving the map it shows the bearing and a line from where you clicked to the current mouse position (like a real radar at ATC would)?"

PS. when developing a new version the first thing we will do is to read this forum topic so please make sure all the suggestions are written/noted here.

Should be covered by these ideas:
39 Map - Ability to measure distance with mouse (Google Earth style)
43 Map - Bearing and Distance to a target on map/to mouse position

[prbflight]

Thanks Terre!

I've voted and I'm looking forward to seeing the results of other user's.

Paul@cyyb