Garmin - Jeppesen Flitestar Connection

[gwengler]

I know this has been discussed here before but I'm still not able to
connect my Garmin III Pilot to the Jeppesen FliteStar program I have
on my laptop. The problem of course is the serial-USB adapter which I
have to use since modern laptops do not have old style serial
connections anymore. If someone has been successful, what exactly was
the configuration (COM, baud rate, format [Garmin or NMEA for example]
etc.) and which was the *exact* serial-USB adapter being used?

Thanks,
Gerd

[Dave Butler]

gwengler wrote:
> I know this has been discussed here before but I'm still not able to
> connect my Garmin III Pilot to the Jeppesen FliteStar program I have
> on my laptop. The problem of course is the serial-USB adapter which I
> have to use since modern laptops do not have old style serial
> connections anymore. If someone has been successful, what exactly was
> the configuration (COM, baud rate, format [Garmin or NMEA for example]
> etc.) and which was the *exact* serial-USB adapter being used?

Don't know about FliteStar, but I emailed Garmin tech support and they told me
what I needed to do to connect using my USB/serial adapter. It seemed to be a
FAQ for them.

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My modern Toshiba still has a serial port. I have several Garmin GPSes
and they all drive FliteDeck just fine.

I think with USB it is especially important that the GPS be connected and
running before you open FliteDeck. Once the GPS is connected make sure it
appears as a USB device in Device Manager. Without that, there isn't a
chance it will work.

gwengler wrote:

> I know this has been discussed here before but I'm still not able to
> connect my Garmin III Pilot to the Jeppesen FliteStar program I have
> on my laptop. The problem of course is the serial-USB adapter which I
> have to use since modern laptops do not have old style serial
> connections anymore. If someone has been successful, what exactly was
> the configuration (COM, baud rate, format [Garmin or NMEA for example]
> etc.) and which was the *exact* serial-USB adapter being used?
>
> Thanks,
> Gerd

[G Farris]

In article >, says...
>
>My modern Toshiba still has a serial port. I have several Garmin GPSes
>and they all drive FliteDeck just fine.
>
>I think with USB it is especially important that the GPS be connected and
>running before you open FliteDeck. Once the GPS is connected make sure it
>appears as a USB device in Device Manager. Without that, there isn't a
>chance it will work.
>

Are you quite sure about that? I think the oposite. If the program (flitemap)
is expecting a Com Port, it will not work with a USB device. The idea of the
USB/Serial adapter is to emulate a traditional com port over the USB
interface. You should end up with what looks like a standard Windows com port.
After this, you must make sure your Com number is right (Com1 and Com3 are
most common for this type of application - check and see if this can be set in
flitemap). The baud rate has to be right, as well as any handshaking and flow
control options. You also have to check and make sure you don't have any
conflicts on that IRQ. Right-click on MyComputer and scroll down to "MANAGE"
to check for sharing and conflicts. Windows com ports sometimes take a bit of
fiddling around to get them to talk. You may want to use a terminal program
like HyperTerminal to suss out the communications parameters.

G Faris