Brian,

Apologies for possibly repeating a question, but pushing an IFR flight plan to the GTN from Garmin Pilot requires *only* the G3X Touch's Connext capability...no Flightstream required?

Thanks,

Dave

Airspace upper/lower floors on G3X
 

I love the new "always on" floor limits for airspace's on Garmin Pilot app.
Will that soon be coming to the G3X displays????

I have no flightstream and only GTN and G3x touch and it worked for me via Connext

G3X Touch: In split screen mode, I'd like to have any page available on both sides of the display. Currently, one side is limited to only a few page choices (I think Map, Chart, PFD?,) which is selected in the setup menu. I'd like the flexibility to use the knobs on both sides of the screen to scroll through all pages on both sides of the display.

GTN Integration
 

Took my first long cross country over the weekend with the radio controls on my GTN 650 enabled on the G3X touch--LOVE IT!!

Just two things I regularly wish it did now that it doesn't. The fact that there's no way to send a flight plan from the G3X to the GTN is really odd--that I can send it from Foreflight on my iPad through the G3X to the GTN is amazing, but I should be able to do the same from the G3X.

Got an interesting modification to my IFR route the other day (complete change with V airways etc.) and loaded the direct-to for the first VOR in the GTN, and started off, but didn't want to mess with editing the flight plan on it for the very complicated route I'd been given. Had no choice but to plan it in Foreflight and send it over. Worked well, but with the panel I have I'd prefer not to be dependent on something not built-in for an important function like that.

Second thing is I can't display the time to VNAV as one of the data displays on the top of the screen. Am I just missing something? I'm constantly having to menu up on the main screen to check it. I can let the autopilot automatically pick it up, but when I'm IFR I can't, but I like to use it as a reference for when I should be reminding ATC to clear me lower.

Thanks!

This is my favorite new thing as well! Love the ease of freq lookups on the G3X!

I've found that you can... kinda. You can build a flight plan on the G3XT and then send it to the GTN, just like you can with the iPad. (Going from memory now) I think you just hit the menu button from the flight plan page, and send to GTN should be an option.

However, I don't think you can do this when you're in flight and you're running the AP off the GTN's flight plan. Think about it this way. When you tell the G3X that it should follow the directions of the GTN, it's just displaying a read only version of what the GTN has loaded for the flight plan. And the autopilot in the G3X is going to fly that. To edit a flight plan, you need to switch the flight plan source to internal, which I believe will also switch the AP source to internal. Now you're flying whatever you had set up as a flight plan in the G3X before.

It would be nice if you could edit a GTN flight plan "on the fly" from the G3X (while it's on the external source), but my gut feeling is that this will be tough to do.


This has been possible since v4.0. It should be there if your software version is up to date. This is one of my favorite data fields.

Baro Data Field from ADSB
 

I have a data field on my Aera 795 that shows the ADSB baro setting. I wish this field was available as a data field on the G3X.

I love my G3X with GTN650 setup. It is a great, rock solid IFR platform.

One feature I would really like to see is some sort of oil timer. Not a big deal, but it would be really nice to have a timer that tells me how many hours I have on my oil change.

-Dan

Oil
 

I second the oil timer. I sent the Garmin guys an email asking about it because I thought it might be one more thing I missed in the documentation. Doesn't seem like it should be too hard to implement since the engine time is already there?

Jim

Hello Rick,

The Data Fields tab on the INFO page allows you to view all of the weather datalink fields including baro setting, winds, temperature, and dewpoint (provided by the nearest METAR).

Thanks,
Steve