I wish......

[Threefingeredjack]

I was poking a new route into the GPS today and had a thought. ( it happens occasionally ) Wouldn't it be nice if I had software at home I could program routes on, load to a thumb drive and then plug into my GPS? Anyone know of such a feature? What would you like to see in your panel/plane.?

 

[EdFred]

I can do that with my secondary GPS. I don't really need anything else in my panel.

http://webpages.charter.net/edfred/DSC_1137.JPG

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[Captain]

Fltplan.com has a feature like that. I'm not at all familiar with it but I've seen emails and newsletters promoting it. It may be with a specific gps model, I don't know.

Others here or the web site should be able to tell you more.

 

[denverpilot]

I thought that was one of the features between Foreflight and Aspen in that announcement last year.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

AOPA flight planner lets you save the route as a GPX file that can be saved and uploaded.

I think I was the person that suggested it to them- and helped them fix it when they implemented it.
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?t=47476
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?t=52681

 

[flyingcheesehead]

As Nate mentioned, ForeFlight can send flight plans to your panel if you've got the Aspen Connected Panel - Cool stuff.

Also, fltplan.com can generate files which you can drop onto an SD card and put into the G1000. Sadly, the procedure for importing a flight plan from the SD card on the G1000 is so knob-intensive that you might as well just manually enter the plan most of the time.