Among the many basic navigation situations Skyview cannot cope with, there is a particularly annoying one:
Say, your flight plan ends at an airport with 2 crossing runways. Normally, some 10 miles out, the controller tells you which of the 4 finals to use and, more often than not, clears you to a remote base leg or directly to the final.
That's when your HSI - nice, but not really needed en route - starts to become interesting: intercepting that final course in marginal visibility.
And that's exactly the point where the Skyview HSI becomes useless - unless you happen to have guessed the runway in use in your flight plan.
A simple OBS Knob, disconnecting the HSI from (or changing) the last flight plan leg, would have solved that common problem in a way we are used to with real HSIs.
But I know what the answer will be:
When you need an HSI, install a real one. And don't forget: you are flying VFR!
Say, your flight plan ends at an airport with 2 crossing runways. Normally, some 10 miles out, the controller tells you which of the 4 finals to use and, more often than not, clears you to a remote base leg or directly to the final.
That's when your HSI - nice, but not really needed en route - starts to become interesting: intercepting that final course in marginal visibility.
And that's exactly the point where the Skyview HSI becomes useless - unless you happen to have guessed the runway in use in your flight plan.
A simple OBS Knob, disconnecting the HSI from (or changing) the last flight plan leg, would have solved that common problem in a way we are used to with real HSIs.
But I know what the answer will be:
When you need an HSI, install a real one. And don't forget: you are flying VFR!