It would be nice if Garmin would port their "demo" software over to linux and be able to "feed" it data from another app. I use the Garmin 430's all the time when flying. Most of our club aircraft have at least one if not two of them.
Oh and btw, I got taxi a Cessna 414 today and a Commander 115TC, besides flying a Piper Aztec for 2 hours. It was a fun aviation day! Now all I have to do is finish my Commercial/Multiengine with Instrument checkride and I will be happy, for now at least. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis L. Olson Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 10:22 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] NMEA *out* to a Garmin David Megginson writes: > Does anyone know if it's possible for a Garmin GPS to take its position > information from external NMEA input, rather than just broadcasting the > position as NMEA output? I wanted to experiment with using my (brand-new) > Garmin 196 slaved to FlightGear, but I have not had much luck yet. This > works to slave FlightGear to the GPS: > > --nmea=serial,in,20,/dev/ttyS0,4800 > > This, however, does not work to slave the GPS to FlightGear: > > --nmea=serial,out,4,/dev/ttyS0,4800 > > I selected the "NMEA IN/NMEA OUT" in the 196 menu. I'd be interested in > hearing from anyone who has used any Garmin receiver slaved to FlightGear > (rather than the other way around). I was hoping to be able to do this with my etrex handheld, but I concluded it was not possible. I'm guessing that it probably won't work for you either, although if there is a menu that says NMEA *IN*, that sounds promising. Perhaps the unit needs some sort of initialization string, or something in addition to NMEA? It might be interesting to plug the output of some other Garmin gps into your 196 to see if that works. Coincidently, I talked to Garmin this week about their higher end GPS's (like the GNS 430). None of the 400-500 series GPS's can take remote "faked" input. However, for the same price (which is substantial), they sell "flight simulator" versions of all these series 400-500 units which do take input via a serial line. However, they have a different communication protocol ... not fancy, but just a bit different from NMEA style strings. The other thing I wanted to play around with is a GPS application running on a palm pilot being fed fake gps strings from FlightGear. Has anyone done anything like that? Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
