Skyview, Direct to Error

[Bill_H]

The subscription also has sectionals (more detailed than the base map I guess) and geo-referenced airport diagrams. Maybe overkill for a 12 but some folks like lots of info! I love the ADSB weather I have - particularly for those marginal VFR days - easy to read the current conditions at all airports and plot a good route, and change it in flight.

[krazydoc33]

I did try the Direct-To function again with and without a flight plan. If there was a flight plan, active or not, the Direct-To function was wrong in both direction and distance by a lot. I updated the software to a later version, Nov. 14th, I was using 7.0.1 dated Sept. 16th. The problem has now gone away. It was probably something to do with my installation of the older software as opposed to the software itself.

[Stan Bahrns]

Originally Posted by krazydoc33

I have had an odd issue with Skyview that just came up. I have tried several ways to use the Direct To function but always get the same result. The flight path appears to go around the world! Instead of going West to a selected airport it goes East and reports that it is 6,000 some miles away yet i can see both my location and the GoTo airport on the display and they are less than 20 miles apart. I tried this for at least three nearby airports and all give similar results, 6,000 or so miles away and fly East first. I have not found anything in the settings menus to account for this. The GPS does report and display my location correctly. Am I doing something stupid?

I have the same results. I have traced the location it adds to the flight plan at a point in the Atlantic ocean just east of the norther coast of Africa. I have tried every way I know how to delete it & no luck. There is no name for the way point so it ack's like its not there. But any time I set up a flight plan it add's some 6000 miles to the plight plan. Also I have never found the activate flight plane button. Help!! RV12 almost done, Registering it now
Thanks,
Stan Bahrns Effingham IL 1H2

[dynonsupport]

Stan,

The location you describe sounds like 0 latitude, 0 longitude, which is just off the west coast of Africa. Sounds like the system is using this for some reason.

You can completely clear a flight plan in the flight plan menu. There is a "CLEAR FLIGHT PLAN" option. Try this, and then do a direct-to something near you, preferably using the NRST list. Let us know if this fixes it.

The other issue here is if the system has ever had a lock. You mention that you are building. Is your GPS connected, and is it getting a good signal? If not, the system may be defaulting to the last place it ever had a good GPS signal, which would be 0,0 if it has never had a signal.

The activate flight plan button is "NAVIGATE" which is highlighted when active.