using Foreflight in a Garmin plane?

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How well does foreflight play with a garmin panel?
Do you still need to get a Stratus device to get all the foreflight features?

I've not been flying in a while. When I flew last I played around using Garmin Pilot on a tablet. I just didn't care for it. Nothing particular that I can put my finger on at the moment, just the interface overall I suppose.
I was in rental aircraft and never utilized any interface with the panel, and never got one of Garmin's portable ADSB devices...just used the tablet computer's onboard GPS.
Just daydreaming now, but seems like everyone on youtube anyway uses foreflight...and a lot of folks here.
 
ForeFlight works great with my GDL39.
 
I have a GNX 375, and it plays very nicely with Foreflight. It puts an indicator right on the map in Foreflight based on the GNX's data. It also puts ADSB weather and traffic right on the map in Foreflight. Flight plans automatically populate from one to the other. Nothing was needed to add the feature. It comes with that functionality right out of the box. Other Garmin devices I think require some kind of an add on (Garmin Flight Stream, I think ForeFlight - Connect with Garmin Flight Stream ). But for the 375, nothing is needed.
 
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All works very well, only things you can't do are database updates to GTN navigators (Requires Pilot) or firmware updates to portable ADS-B products (GDL39/50/51/52). But you can do firmware updates, at least, with the free/unregistered version of Pilot.
 
Works most excellent with this Garmin panel

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Via Bluetooth connection to the G3, we can transfer FF flight plans from the tablet to the GTN.
 
I have Garmin 345 transponder, Avidyne 540, they work great with Foreflight.
 
Brad W said:
How well does foreflight play with a garmin panel?
Do you still need to get a Stratus device to get all the foreflight features?

I've not been flying in a while. When I flew last I played around using Garmin Pilot on a tablet. I just didn't care for it. Nothing particular that I can put my finger on at the moment, just the interface overall I suppose.
I was in rental aircraft and never utilized any interface with the panel, and never got one of Garmin's portable ADSB devices...just used the tablet computer's onboard GPS.
Just daydreaming now, but seems like everyone on youtube anyway uses foreflight...and a lot of folks here.
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I have a GPS175 that connects with Foreflight on my iPad using Bluetooth. Foreflight gets position from the GPS175 and I can load flight plans from Foreflight to the GPS175 (coolest part!) with the touch of a button. I also have an NGT9000 (ADS-B) that connects simultaneously to Foreflight with wifi. Foreflight uses the most accurate position from the two and I get TIS and FIS on Foreflight. I really like the set up, but the Garmin won't display TIS/FIS from the NGT-9000. It's OK thought because I get that on my Aspen and the NGT-9000 has a display of it's own.
 
Really like how you centered the glass over the yoke.

How much to install all of that? $70k?
 
WDD said:
Really like how you centered the glass over the yoke.

How much to install all of that? $70k?
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So do I. Old stuff was slightly left of center.

And other new items are well placed for a natural reach.

Good guess…. All in right about that.
 
Hello
I have a GNX 375 installed in my PA 28 Archer. I can share flight plans between the 375 and foreflight, but I do not see traffic. The traffic switch in foreflight goes away and the option does not exist. Am i missing something?
 
Great point Gary - I missed that. Connecting via Bluetooth should give you ADSB In traffic and weather on F Flight. Do you see traffic on the 375 screen?

- Was curious so did some digging. See this Garmin service bulletin. Might be a software issue? https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=1Edr597phH2d3DDBCPUhb7
 
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The only complaint I have with FF and a Garmin panel is that Garmin requires a subscription to Garmin Pilot to use the DB concierge for updates. Not a fan of that policy.
I need to pay for the DB subscription, and subscription to Garmin pilot - and the only thing I use it for is DB updates.
 
dans2992 said:
The only complaint I have with FF and a Garmin panel is that Garmin requires a subscription to Garmin Pilot to use the DB concierge for updates. Not a fan of that policy.
I need to pay for the DB subscription, and subscription to Garmin pilot - and the only thing I use it for is DB updates.
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Same here. If my FS 510 takes a dump I will likely perform updates via a card reader and toss the GP subscription. Thus far it has worked well.
 
Garmin Pilot records enormous amount of parameters emitted by various Garmin avionics devices. For example, the G3X Touch/GFC 500/GTN combo emits around ~50 parameters every second. These data are only available via Garmin Pilot and FlightStream and uploaded to the Garmin web site automatically, unless one manually downloads the data via MicroSD card and then uploads to Garmin’s web site for post analysis, which is inconvenient. ForeFlight does not have access to these data. Overtime that will become more important and I see ForeFlight’s role increasingly degraded with Garmin only avionics stacks.
 
“AirSync” solves this issue nicely though.
 
I use FF when I ride along with my friend who has a GTN750..it syncs up nicely.
 
I use FF with my GTN-650Xi and GTX-345. Works fine.

Only interesting thing is, FIS-B weather that shows as Yellow on the 650 (and on my 760 now) only shows as darker green on FF.
 
I get the traffic on the 375. When i create the flightplan in FF, it transfers to the 375. If I make a change, like add a waypoint, FF asks me if i want to update the FF plan, so I know that they communicate. I just do not get the traffic on FF
 
Forgive a stupid question. On the option page where you select what to show on the map, did you select “Traffic”?
 
That is the problem. When i begin to taxi, the traffic option in the layers goes away. When I have the ipad connected to wifi, i see the traffic
 
Congrats! I’m completely stumped. Might have to call ForeFlight.

Heck - try reinstalling ForeFlight
 
I love it when i come up with the hard questions. I think a rei stall is in order :)
 
lucius said:
Garmin Pilot records enormous amount of parameters emitted by various Garmin avionics devices. For example, the G3X Touch/GFC 500/GTN combo emits around ~50 parameters every second. These data are only available via Garmin Pilot and FlightStream and uploaded to the Garmin web site automatically, unless one manually downloads the data via MicroSD card and then uploads to Garmin’s web site for post analysis, which is inconvenient. ForeFlight does not have access to these data. Overtime that will become more important and I see ForeFlight’s role increasingly degraded with Garmin only avionics stacks.
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Lucius, I know I’m responding to an old thread - your post is exactly the dilemma I’m facing! I think the solution is to run FF and GP at the same time, preferably on the same ipad or on two different ones. I love GP because of the data that it gets from my connected, all glass garmin panel which is second to none, but I love FF flight planning and in flight info features, such as the new ground speed/wind layer and the overall usability. I wonder if there’s any issues running both at the same time on the same ipad.
 
Could you run one on your phone, and the other on your I Pad?

(If you can’t run both at the same time on your I Pad)
 
WDD said:
Could you run one on your phone, and the other on your I Pad?

(If you can’t run both at the same time on your I Pad)
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That’s a good point. I could run GP on my phone and FF on the iPad mini. I also have a full size ipad but it’s just a bit too large to be convenient.
 
Brad W said:
How well does foreflight play with a garmin panel?
Do you still need to get a Stratus device to get all the foreflight features?

I've not been flying in a while. When I flew last I played around using Garmin Pilot on a tablet. I just didn't care for it. Nothing particular that I can put my finger on at the moment, just the interface overall I suppose.
I was in rental aircraft and never utilized any interface with the panel, and never got one of Garmin's portable ADSB devices...just used the tablet computer's onboard GPS.
Just daydreaming now, but seems like everyone on youtube anyway uses foreflight...and a lot of folks here.
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If we are talking about flying (as opposed to such things as pushing database updates), I have not seen any difference between the way Foreflight and Pilot work with a Garmin panel with either Connect or FlightStream. Traffic, weather, location information, transferring flight plans...
WDD said:
Could you run one on your phone, and the other on your I Pad?

(If you can’t run both at the same time on your I Pad)
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Assuming the memory capacity, yes you can. BTDT.
 
OneCharlieTango said:
ForeFlight will do everything on a Garmin panel that Garmin Pilot will do except data updates via Flightstream 510.
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Also does not do EIS and data logging with auto upload.

But I mainly run FF with my Garmin panel. And mainly only use GP for database updates.
 
lucius said:
Garmin Pilot records enormous amount of parameters emitted by various Garmin avionics devices. For example, the G3X Touch/GFC 500/GTN combo emits around ~50 parameters every second. These data are only available via Garmin Pilot and FlightStream and uploaded to the Garmin web site automatically, unless one manually downloads the data via MicroSD card and then uploads to Garmin’s web site for post analysis, which is inconvenient. ForeFlight does not have access to these data. Overtime that will become more important and I see ForeFlight’s role increasingly degraded with Garmin only avionics stacks.
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If you put an SD card in the slot, all those (actually several hundred parameters) are saved to the SD card.

You only use the auto upload to Garmin that you get with using GP.
 
Pinecone said:
If you put an SD card in the slot, all those (actually several hundred parameters) are saved to the SD card.

You only use the auto upload to Garmin that you get with using GP.
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Yes, I've been uploading the flight data from the SD card from every flight I take to Flysto. Sometimes Garmin Pilot has the files with Air Data and Engine Data and uploads it to Garmin site, sometimes it doesn't. I assume this is when my iPad loses BT with the G3X touch but keeps connected to the GDL51. I have no idea why my ipad intermittently loses BT with the G3x. I've been taking the SD card out and just uploading the CSV files. I very rarely use my Ipad in flight because the G3X and 750 give me all the functionality and more. That's why I'd be interested in using FF int he cockpit as it has some different views that may be more convenient and not available on the G3X. BTW- I use GP to as my digital log book as well
 
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