Export to Garmin .FPL format - ICAO Waypoints odd

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Export to Garmin .FPL format - ICAO Waypoints odd

Export to Garmin .FPL format - ICAO Waypoints odd

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Steve G	S Steve G posted 4/29/2024 2:48:12 PM Post Details Share Post
S Group: Forum Members Posts: 8, Visits: 0	+x Tim Dawson - 4/29/2024 1:32:40 PM Sorry, I have no idea what makes your hardware decide is a waypoint is "locked" or what that even means. If you have an example of the same route, defined in alternative software, that does import in a better way into your device, you could send it to us and we could see what we can do to make the SkyDemon export more like the alternative. Hi Tim, thanks for your reply. 'locked' means it cannot be used for navigation. If the waypoint is manually entered it's fine, but Sky Demon import no longer works. The file is the Garmin .fpl format. I was really asking if you've changed anything as it seems a similar issue to the initial post. If not, I'll keep scratching my head as to why ICAO waypoint export no longer works. Many thanks Steve
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 4/29/2024 1:32:40 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.4K	Sorry, I have no idea what makes your hardware decide is a waypoint is "locked" or what that even means. If you have an example of the same route, defined in alternative software, that does import in a better way into your device, you could send it to us and we could see what we can do to make the SkyDemon export more like the alternative.
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Steve G	S Steve G posted 4/29/2024 10:18:28 AM Post Details Share Post
S Group: Forum Members Posts: 8, Visits: 0	+x Tim Dawson - 3/27/2024 10:23:57 AM Thanks Thomas. This is definitely a bug, introduced because the way we store these waypoints internally has changed over the last few months. It will be fixed for the next version after 3.16.13 (which is already on its way out). Good morning. I have have been using Sky Demon to upload flight plans to the G1000 very successfully, but recently have run into a problem. I'm not sure if it's related to the above issue but I have the latest version of SD. I load the flight plan to an SD card via the share function within Sky Demon on the iPad. When loaded to the G1000 some waypoints are showing as locked. The odd thing is the user waypoints are fine, it's just the ICAO waypoints that are locked. When I manually replace the waypoints in the G1000 using the same identifier everything is fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated - this is a great feature. Many thanks Steve
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 3/27/2024 10:23:57 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.4K	Thanks Thomas. This is definitely a bug, introduced because the way we store these waypoints internally has changed over the last few months. It will be fixed for the next version after 3.16.13 (which is already on its way out).
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Thomas Hartmann	T Thomas Hartmann posted 3/26/2024 11:38:39 AM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
T Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 0	Hello Skydemon Team, I tried to export my Skydemon Flightplan to the Garmin .fpl format and it seems not to work anymore. The Garmin SW “FlightPlan Migrator” ( import into GNS430W unit) comes back with the error message: “ .fpl is not a valid Garmin flight plan file.” Looking into the .fpl file, it seems that the ICAO waypoints identifier has nothing in it where as an airport or e.g. a VOR has the correct identifier: E.g. Metro-VOR: <waypoint> <identifier>MTR</identifier> <type>VOR</type> <country-code>ED</country-code> <lat>50.276279</lat> <lon>8.848625</lon> <comment /> And the ICAO-Waypoint e.g. PEKIG: <waypoint> <identifier /> <type>INT</type> <country-code>ED</country-code> <lat>49.976944</lat> <lon>9.052222</lon> <comment /> </waypoint> Export worked last year in September, but not anymore. I tried MacOS as well as Windows Version. Is on both platforms the same. Please find attached an example Flightplan with Skydemon and .fpl format and as well as working fpl file back from September 2023, with the correct ICAO-Identifiers. Can you please try to reproduce this problem? Many thanks, Thomas Attachments Aschaffenburg - Bremen IFR.flightplan (184 views, 7.00 KB) Archive.zip (456 views, 4.00 KB)
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