Larry Dighera wrote:


The clunky old Cirrus Software for use with DUATS is being replaced
with a new program that looks like a terrific improvement. I haven't
had a chance to try it yet, but it's got to be better than Cirrus.


A very brief perusal reveals:

Pros:

1. Nice graphic terrain planning chart until zoom level 6, but it
still looks better than Cirrus.


Gotchas:
1. Don't try to search without any search terms entered; crashes
program!

2. Screen updates after scrolling the map are too slow.

3. In the Flight Planner command, you'll find the aircraft you
created at the bottom of the list.

4. The user interface is a kludge similar to Cirrus.

I tried it and my biggest complaint (other than the extreme slowness
mentioned above) is that if you build a flight plan graphically, then try
to go to the DUATS flight planner, it doesn't load your waypoints into the
user defined routing. This is such an obvious problem, I hope I'm doing
something wrong and there's a way to do this. But if there is, I haven't
found it. Mean time, I'll stick with Cirrus or just DUATS.

Mike