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SKY DEMON - AUTOPILOT INTEGRATION


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Hi. 

There have been many posts and suggestions  on this forum and elsewhere requesting a facility  for exporting Sky Demon routes to autopilots and other devices over the last few years.
Since the introduction of Sky Demon we have all benefitted greatly from its planning, navigation and briefing capabilites and has become the preferred choice of most GA pilots.  
However, one option that has been missing from its capabilities  was the ability to integrate  Sky Demon with general aviation autopilots.
Due to the increased interest in this requirement I believe  that  Sky Demon may now be prepared to explore such an integration.
It would help the case for developing this capabilty if those interested could express their support and interest on this forum.
Also, if anyone is aware of an existing  solution using readily available off the shelf  and budget friendly hardware please share this information here as this will reduce reasearch and development time and make an approved  solution more likely.
Thanks in advance for your support.

Alan Maynard
 

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Do we really want to embrace that? Yes, it is doable and spitting out the required additional NMEA sequences over IP is a piece of cake. The tinkerer and efiddler can experiment so with the now 2 year old Stratux2AP implementation and it works quite well - if you know exactly what you do. BUT, there is a reason the digital autopilot in experimental sector deleted things like BT input and consumer electronics interfaces for operational purposes - simply because the airmenship even in Experimental showed no benefit to harm by such capability.

I think we are by far better of keeping consumer electronics for planning purpose and restrict ourselves to transfer the result in real avionics.

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BJS - 2/6/2022 9:08:49 AM
Do we really want to embrace that? Yes, it is doable and spitting out the required additional NMEA sequences over IP is a piece of cake. The tinkerer and efiddler can experiment so with the now 2 year old Stratux2AP implementation and it works quite well - if you know exactly what you do. BUT, there is a reason the digital autopilot in experimental sector deleted things like BT input and consumer electronics interfaces for operational purposes - simply because the airmenship even in Experimental showed no benefit to harm by such capability.

I think we are by far better of keeping consumer electronics for planning purpose and restrict ourselves to transfer the result in real avionics.

Hi BJS
Thanks for your  thoughts on this subject. 
Unfortunately not being  an IT expert I'm looking for a simple solution to exporting  Sky Demon routes to an  autopilot on an experimental VFR aircraft. 
To quote, you say. "Yes, it is doable and spitting out the required additional NMEA sequences over IP is a piece of cake".
Please can you share how this can be achieved?

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Eagle2 - 2/17/2022 3:18:14 PM

Hi BJS
Thanks for your  thoughts on this subject. 
Unfortunately not being  an IT expert I'm looking for a simple solution to exporting  Sky Demon routes to an  autopilot on an experimental VFR aircraft. 
To quote, you say. "Yes, it is doable and spitting out the required additional NMEA sequences over IP is a piece of cake".
Please can you share how this can be achieved?
'Talking' to a modern digital autopilot requires you to speak its language, which in most of these cases will be NMEA sequences. For the vocabulary see i.e. https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/NMEA.html . The specifics of your autopilot will be found in the programming manual of it.

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