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Directional Position indicator from compass, not course/movement #16969

Open ManDay opened 1 year ago

ManDay commented 1 year ago

🚀 feature request

Description

This is an idea which would make a better choice for an Aircraft profile: The position indicator while moving (the arrow/car icon) could be pointed into the compass direction, rather than movement direction. Currently, the arrow is always by course, and heading can only be read off the Radius Ruler, which is not very visible and in flight we will usually read of course from the track.

sonora commented 1 year ago

It's a valid request, because that's the way flying works: The direction you point is not normally the direction you move.