Currently the app seems to download with a separate thread updating a modal progress bar dialog. This is fine as long as you want to leave the app visible during the entire download process, but this also prevents users from using previously downloaded resources.

I would like to see a downloader implemented as a service that displays current status in the notification bar (unless the download resources activity is the active one) instead of the modal dialog. This would allow users to safely download data in the background while using other apps without fear of the download being killed in the middle when android closes the app because it needs more memory. Additionally, this would allow users to begun a download for a new area the don't yet have, while simultaneously working on a flight plan in an area they do have.

Runways are labelled "212" and "32" yet both are drawn with the arrows to the north-west and the numbers to the south-east

Perhaps this is a new runway under construction (AFD shows it as 3500x90) so some of the info supplied by FAA isn't complete

I'm not sure why the decision was made to prefix airports with B. Is it possible to add K as an option to make it more comfortable for US users?

In Find screen, allow searching with City name.

Currently the Plan includes your current location in Totals, and draws course from that point. This is not a standard way.

For aircrafts and helis.
The major difference between airplane W&B and helicopter W&B is you only calculate CG fore and aft (longitudinal) on an airplane. On a helicopter you calculate fore and aft as well as side to side (lateral).

Two calculations are made on each graph. Full Fuel and empty fuel. A line is drawn from one to the other.

I'm including an excel spreadsheet that would be perfect if its functions could be replicated in a polished app as well as the POH for the Robinson R44. It contains the numbers to use in the spreadsheet.

This PDF has everything you need to know about Airplane and Helicopter weight and balance.
On page 6-2, there are two charts which are typical for helicopter weight and balance. one chart for longitudinal CG and one for lateral CG.

http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aircraft/media/faa-h-8083-1a.pdf

This will show circles on the active chart for distance in NM/Mile/km.

When I go to map options and click "Update", it only updates weather and TFRs, but not all of my expired approach charts.

Revision 1402 stays, when we are currently on 1403.

The only way I could get it to actually update was by deleting and then re-downloading the State.

The layout of the flight plan, when created, is confusing to many / most, see "MoveUp.jpg", i.e. same above flight plan will display SNA(Base), next row: 0nm 00:02 191 deg. and below that we have: >LGB(Base), next row: 17nm, --:-- 289 which is the actual distance from SNA to LGB. Most people get confused thinking that there is something wrong, being familiar with the typical convention have having Start, Dist, Hdg, Next Way point. I know what your original thinking was, to get rwy heading? and have no real problem with it but many people are confused by it. They think they have to fly that Hdg to the next waypoint. A solution may be to list / display the 0nm 00:02 191 in parenthesis, or in the same row as SNA, and have the 17nm, --:-- 289 in the next line. Basically move the Dist. Time, Hdg up one row, above the next waypoint / destination. See "MoveUp.jpg"

Branch : None (This is server scripts code, and code to draw position is already in Head)
Estimated Date of Completion : December 31, 2013

The RNAV GPS plates can be geo referenced. The work needs algorithm to detect the landmarks on plates.

If you load / reload the same Flight plan sometimes the final course line drawn, to indicate the course / route, is off the charts, see "Straydest.jpg", and "StrayChrt.jpg". In this case I had a flight plan, saved / reloaded used previously from KSNA, KLGB, KTOA, KLAX. It set the Rwy Extension markers for LAX but it drew the course line some 6000 nm away.
Not necessarily Flight plan related, but if included in the Flight plan it becomes, if you have a fix as a waypoint used in the Flight Plan, use FERMY next to KLGB as an example, if you Long press on it, it will give you the coordinates, but not recognized as a Fix / FERMY, as the airports are.

Suggestion to dim the chart display itself when night mode is selected. Some phones won't dim enough to not disrupt the pilots night vision. Thinking this should just be a SetAlpha() call when drawing the chart sections.

Add a flight timer to show on the map screen.

Add checklist that appear like Plan.

I noticed that the old plate(s) is still in the plate drop down list after it has been changed by the FAA. For example, at KSTS the Santa Rosa Six departure is still in the list of plates even though the Santa Rosa 7 departure has replaced it. I assume in a delete and new download of charts the old DPs would not be there but if you just update the charts when needed like I did, you will have both plates and you can easily miss the new chart if you're quickly scanning for the chart number/title you're used to flying.

They are too verbose, and increasing in number. Should be a better way to manage them.

Only destination plates show in Plates. This is open to design. The requirement is to minimize users input for showing plates of airports other than of destination.
Should it be like recent list as in Find
Or a favorite list
Or a Plan based list
Or an intelligent algorithm that shows plates of nearest airport in the Plan

Plan does not show distances till the GPS is locked. Very inconvinient. Should be working and showing total and leg distances even when the GPS is not locked.

Another question: Is it my dream come true, that I can now also Load a
Track into Avare? When I point OI File Manager at one of the Track
files, I get an option to Send it TO Avare! It would be SO cool if I
can Load a past Avare Track or maybe even a Track from some other app or
one I've created!

The instruments need the gps update information to come from the storage service, not the location view. This will allow the KML plots to be updated when not on the chart display screen

The top two lines showing heading, speed, time, timer, destination should be configurable. User should be able to move them to save space, and add more info.

The source data file only names one end of the runway (eg H1 instead of 16/34) so I think this is confusing something somewhere

Reported: Currently unable to skip the missed waypoints on the Plan screen.

A button that would advance to the next waypoint with every push. You could skip one or many. Plus by advancing the waypoint right before a waypoint a coupled autopilot could do a nice turn and intercept the new course without overshooting (a feature that could also be done automatically by AVARE).

Kitkat devices do not allow SD card access unless in folder /Android/data/com.ds.avare. Add option for that.

Plan passage algorithm checks if we came as close to 2 miles from the waypoint, and then mark it as passed. It should more intelligent.

From the forum: I think only 4 categories necessary:  Airport Data (A/D, Alt Mins, etc), Approaches, Arrivals, Departures.

Branch : Matser, scripts

Estimated date of completion Oct 12, 2013

might it be possible to silently Save the file and
eventually add the Sharing feature that seems to be built into Android?

Many apps on my GS4 seem to offer a Sharing button that allows me to
choose between Bluetooth, "Email" (presumably built-in), Gmail, G+,
Hangouts, Messaging, Picassa, and WiFi Direct. For example, the Gallery
app displays Share options when photos are selected.

It would be vastly more convenient if Avare would simply Save the file
silently, and briefly show a message to that effect. Then later on the
ground I could transfer it using my OI File Manager. My own preference
will probably be via Bluetooth, given that even as a KML rather than a
KMZ it's probably a pretty tiny text file for a typical track. Would be
nice having the option to Share it right from Avare since the app
already knows where the tracks are stored. But in flight I'd prefer
that it just be silently Saved.

So again my question: Would it be easy to do a Silent Save now, and
eventually have a tool in Avare for handling the transfer via a Share
popup like the one in Gallery?

Around 10 NM extension should be sufficient.

Allow to either drag the Plan line, or ability to insert a waypoint directly from the Map screen using a drag gesture.

Allow resuming the failed downloads.

I have a feature request. When displaying NEXRAD data from ADS-B, it would be very useful if one were able to distinguish between map areas for which no NEXRAD data was received, versus areas for which the data has verified that no precip exists. Of course, this is an important distinction, since heavy precipitation might exist in those areas for which the data was not received, whereas for those areas for which the data was received and which are clear, there will most likely not. I believe that some other apps put a Grey "veil" over areas for which data wasn't received, so I believe it should be possible to detect this difference from the raw data.

The map re-centers to current location when switch tab away from Map.

It should remain at its current pan position and not re-center.

For flight planning and official WX briefings

NOTAMS for each airport from the net,

Reported by avcomware:

I Downloaded 5.2.7 and I was able to get some additional info.
The problem wit the initial Chart load remains, but now it does load the next TAC in my case San Diego, after LAX.
The Tracks / .kml file gets a zero byte length if you Exit the Avare without going and turning Track Off before you exit.I will test later for over 20 kts speed, at this time, walking I only get the XML header.
Suggestion: Close / Turn off Tracks on Exit. TV

Reported by avcomware:

Avare Ver.: 5.2.6

Avare installation: Default location / SD Card, not in Ext. SD Card.

Hardware: Samsung 10 In. and 7 In. tablets

OS: 4.1.1 and 4.1.2

Mem / Storage: 8 / 64GB and 16/64GB

Charts: LAX TAC, Sectional or World CG-18

Test environment: Real flight and car / auto, walking.

Verify duplicated: Yes.

Short description: Charts would not auto load.

Steps to replicate / duplicate:

1-Exit AVARE, answer Yes to Exit prompt.

2-Turn off my GPS in Settings.

3-Power Off the devices, either 7 or 10 in.

4-Power system / devices, On.

5-Enable GPS.

6-Start AVARE, and OK the Disclaimer.

7-Initially I get "no gps signal" message.

8-After a short time I get a display of Red aircraft and -82ft., Center, 0kt, 348Deg upper right, with a black background, the Chart never loads.

Work around:

If I tap the GPS icon and view the status that shows at least 7-11 green sats., go back and tap Map, the Chart loads immediately.

If I repeat the same steps and go to Simulation mode, in Preferences, not going to Find, I get the same black screen with just the red acft. icon in the center and "simulation" in the upper right.

The only way to load the chart is to go to GPS, and back to Map icons.

If I turn the GPS, ON, when you prompt at start up, it works OK, everything loads fine.

It also loads, works fine, when and if I go to Find.

Suggestions: It would seem that that the "Load chart" routine / Task can be moved, or attempt to verify / reload when the Aircraft icon + Altitude gets displayed / knows that a good GPS signal exists?

Just force a Chart reload with the last area, regardless of the GPS signal and reverify after get good GPS?

Additional observations: The LAX area TAC, Sectional charts seem to be truncated / partial only.

Entering a route as follows: KPWK JVL ODI KFCM. Avare correctly identifies JVL as a navaid waypoint, but it is using the JVL NDB (located at the field) instead of the JVL VOR (about 5 nm SW of the field).

Similar problem occurs when using the "Find" function and searching for JVL. The airport, the VOR, and the NDB come up, but even if the VOR is selected the NDB winds up being the selected waypoint. This is confirmed by pulling up the "Find" function again, which shows the most recent search results - the JVL NDB is at the top of the list.

I'm sure there are other locations in the system where an airport, VOR, and NDB share the same identifier and the NDB is off-field - maybe this is a problem in other places as well.

This is on 5.4.1 on a Nexus 4 with 4.4.2 Kitkat.

Probably the fault of me fiddling with code I don't fully understand (see jlmcgraw branch commits changing handling of ownship drawing and rotation)

External I/O plugin: it appears that there is no carriage return or line feed at the end of the sentence.

To completely drive external equipment (e.g. JPI FS-450 fuel flow computer, autopilot, etc.) the output must not only include the NMEA $GPRMC sentence but also the NMEA $GPRMB sentence.

The plugin appears to only allow one Bluetooth connection. If possible it would be nice to be able to use both an external Bluetooth GPS/ADSB receiver input and an external Bluetooth output for things like JPI FS-450 and autopilot.

From a user:

Feature request which I think would be pretty easy to change. Could you add an option in the preferences to independently enable distance vs. time rings.

Estimated date of completion: Oct 9, 2013
Branch : None (server script)

The coordinates in the CSV file are wrong.
The shapes are drawn incorrect. Hence on the server (dreamhost/kitepilot) serving the weather, add a processor that removes coordinates from the CSV file, then adds them from the XML file.

Request from user:
I have an avmap and when auto zoom is selected it zooms automatically as you near your destination in steps of a couple miles . This is nice because you don't have to touch the GPS

Could we agree to use a common whitespace? I prefer spaces and I believe that is what Zubair uses. Eclipse does an ok job of dealing with the differences when viewing files, but I run eclipse on windows and it tells me a few files have changed (probably because of line endings which I'm not sure how to deal with).

Github does not handle tab/spaces very well. It has tabs set at 8 and I believe we all expect 4. When viewing files on github the spacing is off.

Assuming everyone agrees (you just need to change to always use spaces instead of tabs in Eclipse). I would be willing to go through and change the formatting and do a checkin - I wouldn't touch anything other than changing tabs to spaces.

Rich