Foreflight users (and such)

[FlySince9]

This may be a dumb question, and if so please forgive my senior moment...

I was messing with the GNS 430 simulator... I had built a flightplan in foreflight and was loading it into the Sim. I had created a user waypoint in Foreflight and when I tried to put it in the 430 it was not possible, why you might ask...because the waypoint in foreflight is at
35.43N/80.85W how is that even possible? What am I missing here?

 

[SkyDog58]

Do you need to change it to degrees and minutes from degrees with decimal?

 

[Clip4]

Decimals don’t work.

 

[eman1200]

punch 35.43N 80.85W into google maps and it'll convert it to the format u need.

 

[nauga]

34.43 degrees to deg min sec
0.43 degrees * 60 minutes/degree = 0.43*60 = 25.8 minutes
0.8 minutes * 60 seconds/minutes = 48 seconds
34.43N = 34d 25' 48"N

Nauga,
who's got that kinda time

 

[Hank S]

34.43 degrees to deg min sec
0.43 degrees * 60 minutes/degree = 0.43*60 = 25.8 minutes
0.8 minutes * 60 seconds/minutes = 48 seconds
34.43N = 34d 25' 48"N

Nauga,
who's got that kinda time

My 1984 HP calculator [cost two months' rent back in the day, a great bargain as it still works!] converts from decimal hours to Hours.Minutes Seconds at the push of a button. And converts back at the push of a different button. Haven't checked the various calculators on my 21st century phones, but my expectations are pretty low . . .

 

[nauga]

Haven't checked the various calculators on my 21st century phones, but my expectations are pretty low . . .

That's one reason I like to understand the math behind stuff. My phone will do it, just as described

Nauga,
trying to find the fund in fundamentals

 

[Hank S]

That's one reason I like to understand the math behind stuff. My phone will do it, just as described

Nauga,
trying to find the fund in fundamentals

So do I, and so will mine. But it's so nice to enter the numbers and press "HMS+" and not worry about dividing the minutes by 60 and seeing what's left over to convert back into minutes and seconds.