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Export to Garmin .FPL format - ICAO Waypoints odd


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Thomas Hartmann
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Hello Skydemon Team,

I tried to export my Skydemon Flightplan to the Garmin .fpl format and it seems not to work anymore.
The Garmin SW “FlightPlan Migrator” ( import into GNS430W unit) comes back with the error message: “ *.fpl is not a valid Garmin flight plan file.”

Looking into the *.fpl file, it seems that the ICAO waypoints identifier has nothing in it where as an airport or e.g. a VOR has the correct identifier:
E.g. Metro-VOR:

  <waypoint>
  <identifier>MTR</identifier>
  <type>VOR</type>
  <country-code>ED</country-code>
  <lat>50.276279</lat>
  <lon>8.848625</lon>
  <comment />

And the ICAO-Waypoint e.g. PEKIG:
<waypoint>
  <identifier />
  <type>INT</type>
  <country-code>ED</country-code>
  <lat>49.976944</lat>
  <lon>9.052222</lon>
  <comment />
  </waypoint>

Export worked last year in September, but not anymore. I tried MacOS as well as Windows Version. Is on both platforms the same.
Please find attached an example Flightplan with Skydemon and *.fpl format and as well as working *fpl file back from September 2023, with the correct ICAO-Identifiers.
Can you please try to reproduce this problem?
Many thanks,

Thomas


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Thanks Thomas. This is definitely a bug, introduced because the way we store these waypoints internally has changed over the last few months. It will be fixed for the next version after 3.16.13 (which is already on its way out).
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