Juergen Mentor
Well-Known Member
Good morning everyone,
I seem to have encountered a peculiar puzzle and i'm hoping some of you wise folks might be able to assist. We are trying to develop a Grid flight plan on a Garmin GNS 430 that consist entirely of user GPS way points. The idea is to have the aircraft follow the grid with the autopilot. I've transferred the flight plan to a data card using the flightplan migrator kit that Garmin sells but beyond that I've had nothing but problems. When attempting to import the flightplan, all of the waypoints show up as locked. I've checked the names to see if they conflict and the actual waypoints themselves ... I am not entirely sure what i could be missing. I contacted Garmin support and a technician managed to load it into a Garmin Aera 796 where the grid worked, he was going to test on a 530 but I was never able to get in contact with him again and most of the other technicians are unsure if it is actually possible due to their limited experience with a fairly old navigation system. I am going to attach the contents of that flight plan below. If any of you have tried something like this before or have suggestions on what else i could try, I will gladly give it a shot (Including switching to a different avionics system. The criteria are only: Interface with an autopilot, allow you to create a flightplan on a computer and import it, be hopefully under 10k to at least acquire the hardware).
I seem to have encountered a peculiar puzzle and i'm hoping some of you wise folks might be able to assist. We are trying to develop a Grid flight plan on a Garmin GNS 430 that consist entirely of user GPS way points. The idea is to have the aircraft follow the grid with the autopilot. I've transferred the flight plan to a data card using the flightplan migrator kit that Garmin sells but beyond that I've had nothing but problems. When attempting to import the flightplan, all of the waypoints show up as locked. I've checked the names to see if they conflict and the actual waypoints themselves ... I am not entirely sure what i could be missing. I contacted Garmin support and a technician managed to load it into a Garmin Aera 796 where the grid worked, he was going to test on a 530 but I was never able to get in contact with him again and most of the other technicians are unsure if it is actually possible due to their limited experience with a fairly old navigation system. I am going to attach the contents of that flight plan below. If any of you have tried something like this before or have suggestions on what else i could try, I will gladly give it a shot (Including switching to a different avionics system. The criteria are only: Interface with an autopilot, allow you to create a flightplan on a computer and import it, be hopefully under 10k to at least acquire the hardware).
<flight-plan xmlns="http://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/FlightPlan/v1">
<created>2015-11-20T13:58:17Z</created>
<waypoint-table>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST0</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.38935</lat>
<lon>-87.51021</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST1</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.36631</lat>
<lon>-87.60233</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST2</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.36493</lat>
<lon>-87.78591</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST3</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.35763</lat>
<lon>-87.78582</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST4</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.3587</lat>
<lon>-87.65034</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST5</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.35146</lat>
<lon>-87.65032</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST6</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.35042</lat>
<lon>-87.78567</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST7</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.34308</lat>
<lon>-87.78554</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST8</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.34478</lat>
<lon>-87.57326</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST9</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.33759</lat>
<lon>-87.57318</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST10</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.33584</lat>
<lon>-87.78539</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST11</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.32854</lat>
<lon>-87.78516</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST12</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.32983</lat>
<lon>-87.62128</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST13</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.32261</lat>
<lon>-87.62128</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST14</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.32135</lat>
<lon>-87.78507</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST15</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.31398</lat>
<lon>-87.78492</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST16</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.31577</lat>
<lon>-87.57303</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST17</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.30854</lat>
<lon>-87.57301</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST18</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.30671</lat>
<lon>-87.78483</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
<waypoint>
<identifier>TEST00</identifier>
<type>USER WAYPOINT</type>
<country-code>KZ</country-code>
<lat>41.28498</lat>
<lon>-87.83052</lon>
<comment />
</waypoint>
</waypoint-table>
<route>
<route-name>GRID TEST 430</route-name>
<flight-plan-index>1</flight-plan-index>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST0</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST1</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST2</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST3</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST4</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST5</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST6</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST7</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST8</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST9</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST10</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST11</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST12</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST13</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST14</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST15</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST16</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST17</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST18</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
<route-point>
<waypoint-identifier>TEST00</waypoint-identifier>
<waypoint-type>USER WAYPOINT</waypoint-type>
<waypoint-country-code>KZ</waypoint-country-code>
</route-point>
</route>
</flight-plan>