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Avare Aviation GPS for Android
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Plan is ambiguious #297

Closed apps4av closed 7 years ago

apps4av commented 7 years ago

I noticed one weird thing: on the middle leg, RBG said "navaid" on the plan page, but drew the course line to the airport (KRBG). In this case, it was conspicuous, because the VOR is displaced 5nm or so from the field. Trivial to repro: enter "SLE RBG MFR" in the plan box, and Create. MFR will get converted to "base" (I'd prefer to see "KMFR" in that case, actually, as it's a quick cue -- not sure that UI extends well outside the US, though.) SLE and RBG will show as Navaid.

SLE shows up at the SLE NDB (there's no SLE VOR, apparently). I don't see it charted, but perhaps RBG has an (uncharted) NDB... sure enough. And, indeed, if I use "add waypoint to plan / search", I have the opportunity to select the VOR, and that all works correctly. Conclusion:

apps4av commented 7 years ago

For base ambiguity, use full ICAO code for example, KMFR

apps4av commented 7 years ago

Fixed

The "Type" column should use strings {NDB, VOR}, not {Navaid, Navaid} -- that would have at least made this ambiguity self-describing.

NDB Vs. VOR not fixed.