What is my ICAO code?

luvflyin said:
Ok, I’m a stoopid sheet. Been googlin, reading foreflight manuals etc and not coming up with the current list of Suffix Codes and then the voice says “look in the AIM dummy.” And by gum by golly thar it be. 5-1-8 a. 3. TBL 5-1-3. Anyway, It doesn’t seem it would be complicated at all for the FAA’s computer to reduce the alphabet soup of codes in an ICAO Flight Plan to a single letter Suffix Code to send to the Controllers strip printers and their Radar scopes so they can do their thing.
The Foreflight thang that was confusing me goes like this. Before filing you have to ‘set up’ the aircraft you’ll be flying and filing. That asks for FAA Equipment. It gives you a drop down list of the Suffix Codes and no, there’s no I dunno, I don’t care, leave me alone I’m gonna file ICAO. Ya gotta pick one. It also asks for ICAO Equipment and ICAO Surveillance. Here you can dump in a whole can of Campbell’s Cream of Alphabet Soup. Now it’s time to File. You can pick FAA/Domestic or ICAO. If you pick FAA your Type Aircraft becomes a /whatever you entered in FAA Equipment. If you pick ICAO it becomes a /D, G, S, Y(my plane) or whatever you had entered in the Aircraft ‘set up.’
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A current list of suffix codes is in the .65 as well.

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What is "GNSS"?

We just installed a GNX 375 and we're still trying to figure out its codes (both FAA and ICAO)... I know it's WAAS and can do LPV's, and I think I can even remember what those acronyms stand for... but GNSS is a new one. What is it and have I got it?

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