Author: brou0040
Subject: User Orbit and Remote Upload...
Posted: 07 Mar 2014 at 7:49pm
Perhaps my question doesn't make sense and I don't realize it because I'm not in front of the unit. I was thinking that you can't currently create a hold using rad/rad, but instead there is a workaround where you can create user waypoint from rad/rad, add that new waypoint to the flight plan, then create a hold from that waypoint. I was wondering if creating a hold directly from rad/rad was a future release candidate so we wouldn't have to do the work around. One way to create a hold is to select a waypoint in the flight plan then add a hold - this method would require creating the waypoint and adding it to the flight plan so it is the same action as the work around. However, the manual says you can insert a hold flight plan leg (last paragraph of creating a holding pattern). The manual doesn't state what happens after you insert a hold flight plan leg, but I assume you have to establish a location to hold from. It would be nice to be able to select rad/rad and create the hold directly from that menu instead of using the work around. It wouldn't create a new capability, but it would add an additional way to create a hold that would follow intuitively what I'm trying to do - insert a hold in the flight plan at the intersection of two radials.
Subject: User Orbit and Remote Upload...
Posted: 07 Mar 2014 at 7:49pm
Perhaps my question doesn't make sense and I don't realize it because I'm not in front of the unit. I was thinking that you can't currently create a hold using rad/rad, but instead there is a workaround where you can create user waypoint from rad/rad, add that new waypoint to the flight plan, then create a hold from that waypoint. I was wondering if creating a hold directly from rad/rad was a future release candidate so we wouldn't have to do the work around. One way to create a hold is to select a waypoint in the flight plan then add a hold - this method would require creating the waypoint and adding it to the flight plan so it is the same action as the work around. However, the manual says you can insert a hold flight plan leg (last paragraph of creating a holding pattern). The manual doesn't state what happens after you insert a hold flight plan leg, but I assume you have to establish a location to hold from. It would be nice to be able to select rad/rad and create the hold directly from that menu instead of using the work around. It wouldn't create a new capability, but it would add an additional way to create a hold that would follow intuitively what I'm trying to do - insert a hold in the flight plan at the intersection of two radials.