dwschaefer
Active Member
Just a quick note on my recent experience with the new GDL-39 and my iPad on my check flight with the new unit.
I installed a GDL-39 to feed ADS-B data to my GDU 37X display. Install went well excluding the lack of updated install drawings. By the way you need to run both Serial IN & OUT from the GDL-39 since you have to set the 37X for Garmin Data Transfer protocol for it to talk and it's a two-way data. Found this data on the updated G3X install documentation.
In the setup you "register" your transponder code so that it will ignore your aircraft as a target. This is a super unit and it works very well and syncs to my iPad with bluetooth.
However, when I went flying on Sunday, I launched the Garmin Pilot application on my iPad to display the GDL-39 data only to receive alerts every few seconds that there was a target very close...only problem it was ME! Showed my N number etc. This continued over and over so I had to close the application.
I called Garmin on Monday and after some research they technician called back to say that while the 37X is configured to ignore my aircraft the iPad software apparently isn't! I'm still confused since the iPad is just a display device but that's the answer. This really makes a very nice application completely worthless during flight. Hopefully, Garmin will fix this issue soon. The Pilot application is really very good and I've moved to it from Foreflight for flight planning.
Regards,
David W. Schaefer
RV6A N142DS
I installed a GDL-39 to feed ADS-B data to my GDU 37X display. Install went well excluding the lack of updated install drawings. By the way you need to run both Serial IN & OUT from the GDL-39 since you have to set the 37X for Garmin Data Transfer protocol for it to talk and it's a two-way data. Found this data on the updated G3X install documentation.
In the setup you "register" your transponder code so that it will ignore your aircraft as a target. This is a super unit and it works very well and syncs to my iPad with bluetooth.
However, when I went flying on Sunday, I launched the Garmin Pilot application on my iPad to display the GDL-39 data only to receive alerts every few seconds that there was a target very close...only problem it was ME! Showed my N number etc. This continued over and over so I had to close the application.
I called Garmin on Monday and after some research they technician called back to say that while the 37X is configured to ignore my aircraft the iPad software apparently isn't! I'm still confused since the iPad is just a display device but that's the answer. This really makes a very nice application completely worthless during flight. Hopefully, Garmin will fix this issue soon. The Pilot application is really very good and I've moved to it from Foreflight for flight planning.
Regards,
David W. Schaefer
RV6A N142DS