Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin Series 400 Aviation In data format

[Curtis O. <cur...@gm...>]

On Feb 2, 2008 3:48 PM, dave perry wrote:

> My wife gave me a Garmin GPSmap 496 for Christmas.  Nice wife, huh!
> Anyway, I recalled this thread and want to confirm whether either of you
> have had success with the --AV400 beyond what was reported in this
> thread.  Did you get FlightGear to drive the Garmin GPS III Pilot from
> Linux?  I have ordered the serial interface cable from Garmin and will
> be trying to drive the 496 in simulation mode from FlightGear when it
> arrives in about 7 to 10 days.
>
> Besides the "fun", this would be a great way to become very comfortable
> with the 496 and all its features w/o the pressure of using it in a real
> flight plan.  I cannot pause the real pa24 to figure out what I did
> wrong with the GPS keypad.


I had the AV400 format working great with a Garmin ColorMap 295.  I seem to
recall having to put it into simulation mode and it would do it's own thing
until serial data started flowing from FlightGear at which point it locked
on and obeyed FlightGear ... something like that.

Regards,

Curt.
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