So I am a student pilot and have begun incorporating Garmin Pilot app into my lessons. I also use the Garmin GDL 50 for ADS-B in. I have observed that GP automatically tracks the course of the plane very nicely and saves the track for later examination. What I am struggling with is creating a flight plan that I can use to go to another airport for touch and go's and return to the original airport. When using Flight Plan within GP if I make the Originating airport the same as the Destination airport (i.e. round trip) and make the remote airport a Waypoint within the Flight Plan, it doesn't create a route that flies into the airport vs a flyover waypoint. Do I need to break the trip into two legs (two Flight Plans) or is there a way to fly into remote airports as a waypoint that actually flies into the airport? I have watched numerous GP videos on YouTube, but nothing really addresses this issue. Also, is there a way to view the altitude profile of the flight? It appears that you can only get the altitude track when you use a Flight Plan...
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Just enter it as KABC KXYZ KABC. It should populate it just fine.
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You'll want to join the Facebook group: Garmin Pilot Users, Information & Questions and Answers.
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I'm having a difficult time with your "Flies into the airport" concept. Are you looking for a waypoint that sets you up for the airport, vs. the airport center itself?
Right, I want to do a touch and go at the airport and return to home airport. So the flight plan will recognize a landing at the airport vs. a flyover.
Don't use waypoint. Put in your home field and then the airport you want to do the touch and go at. When you want the return leg, there is a double arrow key on the flight plan page that will reverse the fields in the flight plan.
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okay. Still having trouble.
How does GP care about your landing?
There’s something big I am not getting. And it’s probably simple, knowing me.
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I 'think' what the OP is talking about this........the first pic is JQF -> AFP -> JQF:
but this pic is JQF -> AFP -> PYG -> JQF
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you mean you don’t like the fact GP shows a teardrop 180 instead of unrealistically pivoting on a dime? Yeah, it is a little annoying but not that big a deal. Best alternative I can offer is to learn the ‘invert flight plan’ function.
i don’t know how to view it as a graph in GP; but you can see the instantaneous altitude in demo mode in the flight profile view. Alternatively, you can export the data to another app.
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I just write it out in crayon on a napkin, people 'round here are very trusting.
That is it, the second pic, doesn't look like GP is rendering a landing at KPYG, if that is the way it handles it, then ok, I just thought it should depict a teardrop entry into the pattern and the line crossing over the airport in some fashion, or some other direct point on the airport.
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no, only foreflight users need to be told how to enter a pattern.
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Does this have something to do with you want it put in your Logbook and recognize the landing at that other airport? Just a thought that came to mind. I don't even know if GP has an electro Logbook thingy
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GP does have an electrolog thingy. In my experience it would need definitely to be validated/edited before being exported to a logbook system. As a paper guy, myself, it’s not been very useful. 90-hr flights are often amusing with it.
That is part of it, I am trying to keep all my flights within the electronic logbook, but just thought it ought to draw the course line over the airport and then back again, I appreciate it cannot determine the pattern approach or best runway.
Yes, but I assume that will only be generated when you use the Flight Plan option, not with following the course path when you just launch Garmin Pilot and start flying.
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Put down the iDevice and use a paper sectional. Learn how to navigate via pilotage and dead reckoning.
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Windows in the plane are put there for more than illuminating your iPad.
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Correct. But then how could it if it doesn't know a destination. The only view that will show terrain wo a flight plan is the SynVis view if your GDL or inboard equipment has terrain data and AHRS.
Others are right, this is too early to be depending on your tablet.