G3X Touch First Look + Foreflight Integration

hi everybody welcome back um in this video i figured i'd just show you kind of some of the things i've been playing around with the garmin g3x integrations with uh for flight and just kind of starting how i'm thinking about connecting it up hope you enjoy it anyway if you do don't forget leave a like thanks i decided to do some work on the avionics so here's a little test setup i've got my master relay i got my vertical power system and i got my g3x touch and down here i've got my master switch not completely wired up yet but uh i've got it running off power so what i'm gonna do here is i'm gonna go power this on and then i'm going to put my g3x in uh diagnostic mode which allows me to do some simulations which is pretty slick actually it's great for testing some things out so let me just go do that flip the master switch on garmin lights up hold down the two buttons here it'll go into diagnostic mode there you go i'll let go of the buttons and when it comes up in diagnostic mode you can you can then go continue here and what i can now do is i can go to the menu hit menu again and down here you'll see drive simulator click that guy and i'm just going to go and set my air speed air speed my altitude is fine i'm just gonna set my air speed to let's say 145 knots then hit back and i'm going to click on this guy so here we have it and away it goes now the other thing i'm going to do actually is i'm going to go back menu menu i'm going to go back into that simulator i'm going to put in a waypoint here a d y l doyle's town enter that and now what it'll allow me to do is you'll see here i've actually got a flight plan loaded in to simulate a trip and now that i've got that all set up what i'm going to do now is i'm going to take my tablet here and i'm going to log into my tablet and once i log into my tablet i'm going to start up for flight and one other thing i needed to do so i haven't paired this unit up yet so let me go in here menu again i'm going to go to setups and in setup i'm going to go over here to bluetooth and you'll see leaf on the wind not connected and i'm going to connect it so now it's connected which means now it's talking to my tablet so over here i've got the same thing you can see the emulated aircraft up here here's the flight plan that's actually loaded over there if i wanted to i can go in here into four flight clear this out and let's say i'm going to do a trip from k d y l to um i don't know k m q s okay it's a pretty short little trip i'm done and if i look at that on the map you see it's just a short little trip here now what i can do is i can actually go and in my flight plan here i can go send that you'll see right here the panel if you hit panel it comes over here you can see flight plan receive kdyl kmqs store ignore activate i'm going to activate it and there you go and now what i've got is i've got that new flight plan loaded right up in here and you can see it right here that's pretty slick and i can do the reverse as well still playing around with a little bit trying to see kind of what you can and can't do with it you can see here it's got the attitude when you know speed altitude direction everything on here um i've still got to play with a little more see what else i can get on it but so far it's pretty slick and what i'll do now is i'm planning on i'll lay out my panel i'll start figuring out how i want to put this into the panel and then based on that i'll be able to start running some of the wires and start doing some of the wiring in the panel and run the wires inside the plane and i figured i'd show this it uh it worked out pretty pretty good and the only thing i had to do is for this thing to get it to work with an ipad you need to have the configuration module in it i didn't have it first so i just purchased the configuration module from aircraft spruce connected it up and away it went cheers bye now one other quick thing i forgot to show here down on the bottom you can see all of the different menus you've got on the screen the different pages but if you scoot over here what you'll see is there's a page for the vpx this is pretty cool so you can see the total current draw you can see what each device is drawing so right now i don't have i've got the the vertical power uh detecting if it doesn't have a current draw for my battery backup i have the same for some lights and stuff but in here you can see the gdu is drawing somewhere around 0.6 amps but it's pretty slick you can see the status of the alternator you can also control things from here directly and it'll show you the status of the switches but yeah it's it's uh it's pretty slick i must say i really like it i think that'll be uh it's going to be pretty cool as i get it configured up and get all my switches wired and start hooking up the rest of the avionics anyway cheers

Channel: a leaf on the wind

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Length: 6min 41sec (401 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 27 2021