Importing routes into a Garmin GTNx50xi via an SD card

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Importing routes into a Garmin GTNx50xi via an SD card - has anyone actually done this?

Importing routes into a Garmin GTNx50xi via an SD card - has anyone...

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grahamb	grahamb posted 5/15/2023 7:26:29 PM Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 565, Visits: 27K	SkyDemon now supports exporting of flight plans in Garmin GTN flight plan format. According to the GTNxi manual, I should be able to drop these on to an SD card, and import them to my 650xi via an option on the ‘Catalogue’ menu. Using neither a blank card, nor the Navdata card, seems to work, so either the SD export format is not actually being recognised, or I’m doing something daft. Has anyone else tried to do this?
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grahamb	grahamb posted 5/16/2023 10:18:26 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 565, Visits: 27K	For the record, I have now discovered the secret to making this work. For the GTN to recognise the presence of routes to be imported, they have to be placed into a folder named \FPL on the SD card. Unfortunately this detail is not specifically mentioned in the GTNxi series user manual!
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 5/17/2023 9:48:27 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 9K	Thanks Graham.
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Peter Sp	P Peter Sp posted 10/6/2024 2:27:24 PM Post Details Share Post
P Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 8	+x grahamb - 5/16/2023 10:18:26 PM For the record, I have now discovered the secret to making this work. For the GTN to recognise the presence of routes to be imported, they have to be placed into a folder named \FPL on the SD card.Unfortunately this detail is not specifically mentioned in the GTNxi series user manual! Graham, At last a solution! I've been searching high and low for a way to make it work. Uploading user waypoints was a matter of following the instructions, but not for the routes. You say a folder named \GTN has to be used. "\" is not an allowed character for folder names, so I guess that the folder is called GTN. Am I right? Cheers! Peter
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grahamb	grahamb posted 10/6/2024 9:03:54 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 565, Visits: 27K	+x Peter Sp - 10/6/2024 2:27:24 PM +x grahamb - 5/16/2023 10:18:26 PM For the record, I have now discovered the secret to making this work. For the GTN to recognise the presence of routes to be imported, they have to be placed into a folder named \FPL on the SD card.Unfortunately this detail is not specifically mentioned in the GTNxi series user manual! Graham, At last a solution! I've been searching high and low for a way to make it work. Uploading user waypoints was a matter of following the instructions, but not for the routes. You say a folder named \GTN has to be used. "\" is not an allowed character for folder names, so I guess that the folder is called GTN. Am I right? Cheers! Peter The required folder name is FPL, not GTN. The backslash is just the required delimiter.
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Peter Sp	P Peter Sp posted 10/7/2024 6:52:48 AM Post Details Share Post
P Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 8	+x grahamb - 10/6/2024 9:03:54 PM +x Peter Sp - 10/6/2024 2:27:24 PM +x grahamb - 5/16/2023 10:18:26 PM For the record, I have now discovered the secret to making this work. For the GTN to recognise the presence of routes to be imported, they have to be placed into a folder named \FPL on the SD card.Unfortunately this detail is not specifically mentioned in the GTNxi series user manual! Graham, At last a solution! I've been searching high and low for a way to make it work. Uploading user waypoints was a matter of following the instructions, but not for the routes. You say a folder named \GTN has to be used. "\" is not an allowed character for folder names, so I guess that the folder is called GTN. Am I right? Cheers! Peter The required folder name is FPL, not GTN. The backslash is just the required delimiter. Thanks Graham, Finger trouble on the folder name! I've checked what I used on the SD card and have the right one. I have created two routes using existing GTN650 waypoints on one card - they should work. On another, I have a route with two waypoints which aren't on the GTN650 to see what a failure looks like. Thanks also for the clarification on the delimiter. Peter
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