While in X-Plane Mac OS X market share is 50%, the absolute market share is about 5%.īig companies set out for easy market reach, so they bet on an OS with 95% market share instead of 5%. When you see the work done by it really makes you wonder why a nice representation of the Garmin hasn't been created. Or an add on FMC such as those made by Integrated Simavionics for X-Plane. I agree, it boggles the mind that XP has made it to version 9.41 in all its wonderful, beautiful glory and marvelous technology yet we still do not have a nice replica of one of the most wide spread GPS units in aviation today. Presumably the interface you are developing could equally be used with minor effort(?) to bring the Garmin G1000 and Perspective trainers to X-plane? This would be a game changing development for me and I am sure many others who find the existing X-plane garmin implementation to be, in a word, pathetic. (Īnother vote of desire for a Mac version of the plugin here - I realize that Garmin Trainer itself has to be run separately on a Windows machine, at least for now (come on Garmin.). After cleaning up the code and doing some extensive testing I plan to release the first version before the end of this week. Please stay tuned for the first version of the plug-in. The shell runs in a local standalone application. The connection to the auto pilot still has to be done. I decided to build an interface to the new GNS430/530 WAAS trainer provided by Garmin ()Īlthough there is a commercial implementation from RealityXP I decided to build my own 'shell' around the Garmin trainer in order to learn about it and to be able to implement more functionality that RealityXP currently provides.Īt this moment I have completed part of the 'shell' which can tune the COM1/NAV1 frequencies and can send GPS data to the GNS. The 16 bit application 430/530 trainers are very outdated. Garmin provides GNS 430/530 simulators/trainers both as a 16 bit applications and 32 bit application.

Part of the activity to build a fill motion flight simulator (includes building a fully functional Garmin GNS530 device which interfaces to X-plane. As an enthusiastic x-plane user as plug-in developer I decided to make a contribution to the x-plane community.

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