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Garmin has added substantial new capability to its Pilot app, including integrated weight and balance
calculations, aircraft performance tables and calculations, in-app f light plan editing and customizable checklists. These new features are available as a free update for existing customers and provide pilots with more tools to aid in f light planning and in-f light navigation within a single mobile application.
“We continue to pack more features and incorporate more capabilities into Garmin Pilot to provide our customers with a premier, all-inclusive application,” said Carl Wolf, Garmin vice president of aviation sales and marketing. “Pilots have been requesting an all-in-one app that merges their flight plan with other information pertaining to the flight, such as performance calculations, weight and balance and more.”
Integrated Weight & Balance
Garmin Pilot is the first application that incorporates weight-and-balance calculations into a flight plan or a saved trip, considering fuel burn and more for a comprehensive look at weight and balance characteristics throughout an entire flight. Pilots can take advantage of pre-loaded aircraft types or enter aircraft weight and balance figures manually, noting the arm, moment and
station of each point from the Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH). Figures such as center of gravity (CG) can be referenced in the application relative to an active flight plan. In the event CG limits entered within the app are exceeded, pilots receive a visual alert. Additionally, customized weight and balance profiles can be shared across multiple Garmin Pilot accounts. For example, pilots that operate a single airplane in a club can easily share the same weight and balance profile across different Garmin Pilot accounts.
New performance tables can calculate climb, cruise and decent profiles so pilots can reference performance characteristics specific to their aircraft within Garmin Pilot. Pilots are provided with an interactive and graphically-rich interface to input figures that calculate aircraft performance, including
variables such as power setting, fuel and distance to climb and cruise. All aircraft performance calculations also consider pertinent factors such as outside air temperature (OAT) and altitude. Several of the most popular fixed-wing aircraft models among Garmin Pilot users are pre-populated within the app, however, similar to weight and balance data, aircraft performance tables that are manually created may be shared across multiple Garmin Pilot accounts. Additional aircraft types are expected to be added to the aircraft library in upcoming Garmin Pilot releases.
Enhanced flyGarmin integration provides customers with more opportunities to customize and save data within the Garmin Pilot app. Pilots now have the option to input and save their own aircraft performance characteristics manually within the
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