Garmin 396 Track File and FliteStar

[Areeda]

Has anyone gotten a 396 trackfile to load into FliteStar?

It should be a simple perl script to convert it but I doubt I'm the first one with this issue.

Anybody solved it yet?

Joe

 

[Areeda]

Actually the program was even easier than I thought.

I'm still interested in if there is an official way to do this.

If others have had the same problem I can probably clean up the program and make it available via a web interface. It's a unix perl script right now and is probably less work to make a machine independent web interface than to walk one or two through the steps to run it on anything but Unix.

Attached is most of our route to and from Glacier National Park.

Joe

 

[gprellwitz]

Well, I was trying to figure out how to do something like this with Google Earth or something similar, since I don't own FliteStar. I came across this thread on Van's Air Force Forums:

http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=4990

 

[Areeda]

Thanks Grant.

 

[Steve]

FWIW, the latest version of RMS Technology's Flitesoft will overlay a planned route directly over Google Earth. They use a separate program (Vista) to capture GPS tracks.

http://www.rmstek.com/

Well, I was trying to figure out how to do something like this with Google Earth or something similar, since I don't own FliteStar. I came across this thread on Van's Air Force Forums:

http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=4990

 

[gprellwitz]

That's add'l $$$, right?

 

[Steve]

But of course!

Similar to FliteMap, which is external to Flitestar.

I dropped Jeppesen and renewed Flitesoft at Airventure this year. I used Flitesoft back in the early DOS days. Without the heavy graphics overhead of Flitestar it runs extremely fast on my PCs.

That's add'l $$$, right?