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Up/Down TIMER as Data Block

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Topic: Up/Down TIMER as Data Block

Posted By: n7ifr
Subject: Up/Down TIMER as Data Block
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2015 at 11:04pm

Is it possible to display as a data-block the UP/DWN TIMER function? All I find is Flight Timer...

Utility Page with this timer is useful, but so much more useful if displayed on MAP page as a Data Block like during a Timed Approach.

Perhaps a future enhancement...

Tom Wolf

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Posted By: brou0040
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2015 at 11:33pm

That's a good idea, to expand on the idea, perhaps if you click on the datablock, it gives you a larger screen to setup the timer(s), that you can close when it's all set. It could provide an aural alert in addition to flashing the datablock so that it is more noticeable than a CAS alert.

To get fancy, it could pre-populate the timer based on the approach loaded and the groundspeed, maybe even have a setting to automatically start counting as you pass the FAF.

Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2015 at 7:37am

Both just entered into the candidate future feature database. Thanks for the ideas!

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Steve Jacobson
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