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Is there a good way to create or import check lists?

jrmlong — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:35:52 GMT

Am I missing something on making this easier? It is very tedious to do from a mobile device, it would be much easier to do from a computer.

It also seems like a missing opportunity for community contributions to create a repository of checklists, potentially even manufacturer submitted/verified for newer aircraft.

RE: Is there a good way to create or import check lists?

8820933 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:41:02 GMT

This looks liek a great option. How do you import .gplt files into Garmin Pilot?

TOLD Support

3094982 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:44:16 GMT

Has there been any consideration to incorporate takeoff and landing performance information in Garmin Pilot? It’s a feature that keeps me bouncing back to a competitors product, especially on hot summer days.

Garmin Pilot Flight Plan Hardcopy

JDWorks — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:30:33 GMT

Until a recent software revision, Garmin Pilot sent an email with a concise one page rendering of each filed flight plan in the traditional format that pilots have ben used to for many decades. I have routinely printed a hardcopy of the emailed flight plan as backup to the electronic version on my iPad. Now we get an email with a four page summary(!) of the flight plan with lots of open spaces (e.g. the 2nd page is almost entirely blank) and additional information that is relatively useless (e.g., wake turbulence category, second in command, alternate call sign, etc.). So I have to print out 4 pages to get a copy of the flight plan. Please revert to the prior concise version which contains all of the information needed; or at least make that an option.

Also, on the new version of the emailed flight plan I notice that it indicates Cruise Speed = 321 (kts?).. That's about 65 kts above the max airspeed of my JetProp. Time enroute seems to be correct, so I'm sure the Garmin Pilot program is not using 321 kts to calculate cruise time!

Thanks for your attention to these issues.

Love the app, which I have been using since launched!

John Dixon

N18JM

RE: Garmin Pilot Flight Plan Hardcopy

JDWorks — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:49:43 GMT

Unfortunately it looks like Garmin Pilot has reverted to the emailed 4 page "summary" of the Flight Plan. How about giving users the option to choose the concise 1 page summary that has been provided previously?

Thanks,

John Dixon

N18JM

RE: How to center on aircraft

1557296 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:26:56 GMT

I fly gyros and usually around 60 kts airspeed. I often have to get out of the way of aircraft coming from behind. Track up center would be very helpful as I shift away from FF.

How to center on aircraft

9354473 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:16:05 GMT

The "center on aircraft" control places the current aircraft position near the bottom of the iPad screen (at least in portrait mode). I want it to be in the center like the description of the "center of aircraft" control states. How can I do this?

How does one add custom map layers from .kml/.kmz files?

Daniel Goodin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:01:58 GMT

I use a lot of custom layers in Foreflight for my job, but the way to add these custom layers in Pilot doesn't appear to exist?

Feature request: Active Chart Binder should be available in Europe

Frankenplane — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:51:47 GMT

Dear Garmin team

Garmin Pilot (Europe) is unable to show the relevant charts for the activated flight. This means that European pilots have to scroll through all procedures/charts of airports and try to find the right plates. This high workload holds me back from using Garmin Pilot for flying in Europe. I'd really like to switch to Garmin, because I prefer the basemap, integration with avionics, etc,

I want to simply select the SID, STAR, Approach in the active flight and then I expect a binder with only those selected procedures. Currently, this feature called "Active Chart Binder" is per support not available in Europe...

Please let me know if this is in the pipeline soon. Thank you!

RE: Is there a good way to create or import check lists?

askulte — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:39:41 GMT

Hi Garmin Developers - Any progress? I'm another Foreflight user considering the move when my subscription is up. I have my custom checklists (word file, printed & laminated 8 pages) that I'd love to incorporate within my flying flow. Foreflight doesn't make it easy to enter checklists either - Let us do it on the web or offline and import to the app. Retyping on a mobile device would be super tedious. Could be a great feature where Garmin would be better than FF!

Logs synced for D2 Mach 2 - altitude and speed?

8170451 — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:44:24 GMT

Hi all,

I’m using my D2Mach2 to log my flights - the log entries are synced to Garmin Pilot - but it seems that some data doesn’t get synced - namely GPS recorded altitude and speed from the watch. Basically, if I look at the activity on Garmin Connect, I can see my track, altitude and speed graphs. On Garmin Pilot, all I see is the track data - it’s showing no data for altitude and speed. Does anyone have any ideas on if there is a way to get that data recognized in Pilot from the data synced over from my D2 Mach 2?

RE: Is there a good way to create or import check lists?

8820933 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:27:27 GMT

Another Garmin Pilot trial user considering switching from ForeFlight to Garmin Pilot and finding the lack of ability to import checklists (e.g. .ace files) a major detractor to making the switch which is unfortunate as it seems like there are many things to like about GP over ForeFlight.

Has anyone sucsessfully copied a flight plan generated in Foreflight and pasted it into Garmin Pilot?

3599033 — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:10:28 GMT

I am looking at starting with Garmin Pilot having used ForFlight for a long time. I have a number of flights saved on ForeFlight which I would like to copy the route and paste it into Garmin Pilot. Is this straight forward and does the Garmin Pilot recognise the routing made by FF?

Thank you.

Print binder

Frankenplane — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:36:34 GMT

Hi there

I am used to the workflow in Foreflight to plan my flight with a binder. I put in that binder all plates for:

Departure: Taxi diagram, planned SID

Destination: planned STAR, planned/most likely approaches, VFR plate, taxi diagram

Alternate: most likely approaches, taxi diagram

Then I print all of it (at once!) as one PDF file. I use this as backup or print on paper.

My question is, does Garmin Pilot allow printing an entire binder with select plates too? Couldn't find this option yet.

If not possible: This is a feature request. [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8] Thank you!

RE: Where are AIP contents like GEN ENR AD?

Frankenplane — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:25:40 GMT

I was looking on Android. So, this is not usable as backup on android, unfortunately. I'll stay tuned for this feature.

Where are AIP contents like GEN ENR AD?

Frankenplane — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:20:05 GMT

Hi everyone

I am a Pilot in Europe and can't find any AIP parts like GEN, ENR, etc. in Garmin Pilot. Where in the app can I find these?

This is very important to me, because there is a different country in an hour flight time in any direction...

Thank you!

G1000NXi connects to iPad with Garmin Pilot via Bluetooth but will not make Wifi connection for Database transfers.

4091443 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:29:23 GMT

How do I make the G1000NXi connect to Garmin Pilot on an iPad with Wifi.

Garmin Pilot Web sync with ipad

4117911 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:05:07 GMT

Is Garmin Pilot Web app and Garmin Pilot tablet supposed to seemlessly sync? Mine does not despite checking versions, logging off both devices and logging back in. Only my android device syncs with the web app, ipad does not. My logbook does sync.

RE: Garmin Pilot Web sync with ipad

Garmin-NG — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:39:26 GMT

Hello! Some points to check here are to make sure your iOS is up to date (26.3.1), make sure your Garmin Pilot app is up to date (26.3), then sign out and back in (potentially also uninstalling and reinstalling the app onto your device). If it still doesn't please contact Aviation Product Support at 866-739-5687 for further troubleshooting.

RE: Bug: App crash when selecting altitude and departure is outside forecast range

LisaNel — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:18:59 GMT

Today I AGAIN remove Garmin Pilot and re-installed it. This is the third time I've done that.

Today that bug is gone. It must have been fixedd since the last time I re-install Garmin Pilot.

The great news is that I can continue to use my iOS V17 iPad that I love. I do not plan on getting a new iPad.

Bug: App crash when selecting altitude and departure is outside forecast range

3714205 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:35:07 GMT

Not sure if this is the best place to report bugs. If not, the proper place is not easily found.

The Garmin Pilot app crashes when attempting to select an altitude in a flight where the departure date is seemingly outside the available wind forecast range.

To reproduce: enter flight plan route; in details tab, select a departure date some days in the future (4 in my case), then attempt to change altitude. The app crashes when the altitude field is tapped.

Garmin Pilot v25.7.1 on Android.

RE: Bug: App crash when selecting altitude and departure is outside forecast range

LisaNel — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:07:24 GMT

I have a similar issue on 25.12.3

When I touch on an airport on the map, Garmin Pilot crashes and the iPad has to force close Garmin Pilot.

If you use split screen and assign the airport tab to it, you can never use split screen without it crashing.

This just started with 25.12.3 and I WISH I could downgrade to 25.12.2 where my older iPad would still be fine.

The solution of forcing me to buy a $1500 new iPad to get iOS 18 is unacceptable.

My old android tablet running Garmin Pilot 25.7.1 now works better than
my iPad.

My iPad runs iOS 17 and can NOT be upgraded to 18.

RE: I did something wrong, and now my Garmin Pilot isn't giving me accurate estimates for all the positions in the flight plan. What should I do?

Garmin-CB — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:33:20 GMT

Hello, can you confirm that you are on the most recent version of Garmin Pilot and are having this issue? The most current version is 26.2.1 and you can find that by going to Settings>General.

I did something wrong, and now my Garmin Pilot isn't giving me accurate estimates for all the positions in the flight plan. What should I do?

6175681 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:59:03 GMT

I did something wrong, and now my Garmin Pilot isn't giving me accurate estimates for all the positions in the flight plan. What should I do?

RE: Where are AIP contents like GEN ENR AD?

Garmin-NG — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:50:36 GMT

Hello, if you are looking for the AIP documents, please navigate to the documents page in Garmin Pilot on an iOS device, then select "Eurocontrol AIP" under the Europe Documents section. This feature is currently not available on Android.