Hi

I am training for my PPL and have download the trial software for my lap top. everything works brilliant apart from the start GPS.



I have connected my external blue tooth GPS (activepilot) to com 3 on win 7. Mt computer recognizes it instantly on start upand reports no errors ,the GPS picks up the satellites instantly and goes green .



I have started SkDemon software and went to set up/GPs options ,But it always has a box or what looks like a little Chinese letter next to the com no ie 3,6,8 option box? ie it never says ,just com 3 or com 6 on its own it has a little letter after the number . . anyway once I have chosen com3 with the little letter next to it, i leave setup and click start GPS,after accepting the trial notification box it always through s up an error box saying ,there is an error trying to open the GPS device,The port Com 3? does not exist? it always puts a? after the port ie 3?

Just had admin ,send me a reply,their not sure why it happening but ,it can be highlighted and altered manually,as soon as this is done ,click on start GPS and it works instantly ,a little yellow plane appears directly above my home. perfect. I off on a PPL training flight early next week ,im gonna give it a good try out.

I too get this problem and it took me quite some time before I figured out you could actually edit the text in the list of COM ports and delete the offending character. Without the trailing 'Chinese' character SD connects to my Blue-tooth GPS a treat :-)

Yes its a great peice of kit once you get to understand what is what ,and I as a currently taking my PPL find it good for learning practically what this like Notam ,ATZ MATz,and Metar's actually do by planning routes etc,it makes it a lot more clearer than reading a book..



It will be one of the first bits of kit i will buy to add to my Tablet ,just wish there was a android version out of it,but saying that I think the windows tablet is becoming more popular and there one or 2 dual boot versions currently hitting the market so mayble it will run on them.