lucaberta
Active Member
Hi all,
my first posting on this forum! Albeit I am not a Vans aircraft user, I find this community to be very much bleeding edge, and thus I believe that other european Garmin users might also chime in with their comments and support.
I have just sent a small feature request to Garmin to enhance my 296, which I believe is an incredible piece of equipment.
In Europe, we measure runways in meters, and unfortuntely the Garmins display them only in feet when "nautical" units are selected in the menu. My request to Garmin is to add another box in the Units menu, so people can choose whether to use feet or meters for runway dimensions.
Here is the text of the message that I just sent to Garmin using their support web page found at http://www.garmin.com/contactUs/techSupport.jsp
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This is a small feature request rather than a request for support, which would make life better for us on the European side of the pond.
The problem is related to the unit used to display the runways dimensions in the Airport Details pages. Over here in Europe, we use meters for runway dimensions, instead of feet, and unfortunately this is not working properly in the 296.
In this screenshot of the Units menu:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5615/unitsmenu7az.jpg
I have selected metric, and when doing this, the runway dimensions are correctly displayed in meters, like this:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9642/lirurwymeters4mc.jpg
But since we use feet, knots and nautical miles on airplanes, when I select "nautical" in the Units menu, the runway dimensions are also automatically displayed in feet, like this:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1343/lirurwyfeet5kk.jpg
In a nutshell, I would request that a further data input box in the Units menu be added, labelled "Runways" with options feet and meters, so that one could choose to have nautical units *and* runways displayed in meters, solving the issue that we Europeans have.
Thanks for an excellent product!
Best regards,
Luca Bertagnolio
Belgium/Italy
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The three screenshots I made to clarify my requests are these:
If other European users of Garmin GPS units might want to send once more this request using the Garmin web page I linked above, maybe we can make our voice stronger, and this small featurette might be included in a future software release, who knows! It simply takes a copy and paste of what I have written between the dashed lines above, no big deal!
Many thanks for your comments and support.
Best regards,
Luca Bertagnolio
Belgium/Italy
my first posting on this forum! Albeit I am not a Vans aircraft user, I find this community to be very much bleeding edge, and thus I believe that other european Garmin users might also chime in with their comments and support.
I have just sent a small feature request to Garmin to enhance my 296, which I believe is an incredible piece of equipment.
In Europe, we measure runways in meters, and unfortuntely the Garmins display them only in feet when "nautical" units are selected in the menu. My request to Garmin is to add another box in the Units menu, so people can choose whether to use feet or meters for runway dimensions.
Here is the text of the message that I just sent to Garmin using their support web page found at http://www.garmin.com/contactUs/techSupport.jsp
---
This is a small feature request rather than a request for support, which would make life better for us on the European side of the pond.
The problem is related to the unit used to display the runways dimensions in the Airport Details pages. Over here in Europe, we use meters for runway dimensions, instead of feet, and unfortunately this is not working properly in the 296.
In this screenshot of the Units menu:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5615/unitsmenu7az.jpg
I have selected metric, and when doing this, the runway dimensions are correctly displayed in meters, like this:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9642/lirurwymeters4mc.jpg
But since we use feet, knots and nautical miles on airplanes, when I select "nautical" in the Units menu, the runway dimensions are also automatically displayed in feet, like this:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1343/lirurwyfeet5kk.jpg
In a nutshell, I would request that a further data input box in the Units menu be added, labelled "Runways" with options feet and meters, so that one could choose to have nautical units *and* runways displayed in meters, solving the issue that we Europeans have.
Thanks for an excellent product!
Best regards,
Luca Bertagnolio
Belgium/Italy
---
The three screenshots I made to clarify my requests are these:
![unitsmenu7az.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg220.imageshack.us%2Fimg220%2F5615%2Funitsmenu7az.jpg&hash=13c4afb1d43c76d262cd52e7964e189e)
![lirurwymeters4mc.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg220.imageshack.us%2Fimg220%2F9642%2Flirurwymeters4mc.jpg&hash=923b7cdc31a5ff188569f61e3ebe4781)
![lirurwyfeet5kk.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg220.imageshack.us%2Fimg220%2F1343%2Flirurwyfeet5kk.jpg&hash=ebe6e15eb20152d3e77a97e73af46096)
If other European users of Garmin GPS units might want to send once more this request using the Garmin web page I linked above, maybe we can make our voice stronger, and this small featurette might be included in a future software release, who knows! It simply takes a copy and paste of what I have written between the dashed lines above, no big deal!
Many thanks for your comments and support.
Best regards,
Luca Bertagnolio
Belgium/Italy