Hi

I'm a recent convert to SkyDemon - I'm very impressed overall.



I've had real problems though in exporting flight plans to my Aera 500, either directly or as a .gpx file.



After a lot of testing, I think that the problem is that my home airfield is named badly!



I fly out of Charelroi/Brussels South. That forward slash seems to be interpreted as a file/folder instruction during export rather than a piece of text.



I now have a workaround for this but is there any way that I can dit the name of the Airfield to avoid this problem?



Thanks

I also have trouble downloading F;ight Plan's to the Aera 500. When I transfer the .GPX files, the Aera 500 crashes, The only solution I have found is to remove the .GPX files created by Skydemon plan. Plans created by other software Planning applications do not have this affect. Any Ideas for a solution.

I tend to disagree with Tim's answer that this is a Garmin bug.
I have the same problem as the topicstarter, and I agree with him that it is caused by the airport description with the slashes.

Garmin assumes that a flight goes from one airport to another, and uses/expects the airport identifier (ICAO designator) for all airports which seems to be logical. SD uses identifiers for navaids, why not for airports?

If I save an SD-route as a gpx-file, and I change the airport descriptions in the gpx-file to their identifiers, everythings works just fine!

So, in my opinion, no Garmin bug but a necessary change in SD-software for 'sending a route to connected device' and 'save as gpx (not the airport description, but the airport identifier, that is available and used for the flightplan!).

Tim, look forward for your reaction,
Mark