I am aware that ForeFlight will connect to the Skyview system. I wonder if anyone has come up with a solution to connect ForeFlight/iPad to D-180 so the auto pilot will follow the flight plan on the iPad.
It seems to me that what would be needed would be and black box that would receive a wireless signal from the iPad (bluetooth) translate the ForeFlight data to a NMEA sentence and put it on the wire that connects to the D-180. Then the autopilot would fly it just as it does flying a flight plan put into a Garmin devise. You would just need a data switch to switch select using data from the 496 or the iPad.
I have a Garmin 496 mounted in the panel and so now have to load the flight plan manually to match what I have done in ForeFlight. Then of course any enroute changes have to be updated in the 496.
Another way to do this may be for Foreflight to send the flight plan to the 496 then the autopilot would follow the Garmin flight plan the way it does now. But the is not possible now with ForeFlight I don't think. I have heard the some of ForeFlights competitors do it now but I'm sure how that works. Anyway it would be a nicer solution from the auto pilot to follow the ForeFlight route directly.
Have I missed a solution that is already out there or am I the only one that wants this functionality?
It seems to me that what would be needed would be and black box that would receive a wireless signal from the iPad (bluetooth) translate the ForeFlight data to a NMEA sentence and put it on the wire that connects to the D-180. Then the autopilot would fly it just as it does flying a flight plan put into a Garmin devise. You would just need a data switch to switch select using data from the 496 or the iPad.
I have a Garmin 496 mounted in the panel and so now have to load the flight plan manually to match what I have done in ForeFlight. Then of course any enroute changes have to be updated in the 496.
Another way to do this may be for Foreflight to send the flight plan to the 496 then the autopilot would follow the Garmin flight plan the way it does now. But the is not possible now with ForeFlight I don't think. I have heard the some of ForeFlights competitors do it now but I'm sure how that works. Anyway it would be a nicer solution from the auto pilot to follow the ForeFlight route directly.
Have I missed a solution that is already out there or am I the only one that wants this functionality?