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iPad and foreflight tip

I got this tip today from ForeFlight. For those of you flying VFR from airport A direct to airport B this would not be a problem. On the other hand some of us have to work :lol: for a living and fly long IFR flights. I had a heck of a time with the little window that you type the flight plan in, if you make one little mistake in the middle of the FP or you get a re-route it was impossible to change things with out putting the cursor at the end and start erasing.
Well, if I had read the book, I would have known the following.

One of my favorite tips for editing in a bumpy cockpit is to tap your finger on the search box, which will put your cursor at the end of the line, ready for you to start typing. Tap and hold your finger in the center of the search box until the "bubble" appears. This is a magnifying glass designed to help you see where the insertion cursor is beneath your finger. The problem is that it's so high up on the screen, it gets in the way. TIP: While holding down your finger, drag the bubble down to about halfway down the screen and you'll be able to see the insert cursor clearly up in the search box (ignore the bubble). Now if you drag your finger left or right, you can scroll through your route and then let go when the insert cursor is at the exact point where you want to continue editing.
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Re: iPad and foreflight tip

Thanks John!
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Just so everyone with an IPad or IPhone knows, this is standard text editing on any app, not just Foreflight.

Thanks for passing this along.
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