How do you load an X-Plane flight plan (.FMS) in the device, I can not find any information about this in the manual

Thank you in advance

Hi Martin,

The RXP GTN uses its own database and files, and won't accept third party flight plan files (third party meaning: non-garmin).

However, the GTN can import flight plan and user waypoints from files, which format is documented (see sample pack installed with the RXP GTN - details in User's Manual).

Generating such flight plan files is easy manually, but there are great flight planning tools available which support the GTN format natively.

You might want to look at Little Navmap:

In addition, you might want to follow through the great tutorial and review posted by Frank here:

 

2 hours ago, RXP said:

Hi Martin,

The RXP GTN uses its own database and files, and won't accept third party flight plan files (third party meaning: non-garmin).

However, the GTN can import flight plan and user waypoints from files, which format is documented (see sample pack installed with the RXP GTN - details in User's Manual).

Generating such flight plan files is easy manually, but there are great flight planning tools available which support the GTN format natively.

You might want to look at Little Navmap:

In addition, you might want to follow through the great tutorial and review posted by Frank here:

 

So basically, except for looking good, this device is completely useless for X-Plane 11, especially for those of us that have many .FMS flight plans already since they can not be loaded in this device

You should mention this very important fact in the PDF file, as it is not mentioned anywhere that it is not fully compatible with X-Plane 11.

I bought this device after reading the PDF that is offered for download separately, and found no information that it can not use the X-Plane flight plans

Hi Martin,

It is unfortunate you find our product useless for you.

I'll let others share their own experience with the Reality XP GTN, but please allow me to share my experience with my iPhone instead: it is not compatible with my car stereo system despite my car User's Manual makes no mention about this explicitly. This is the second time I read a similar comments in our forums along these lines: "if you don't say it won't work, I'd assume it does". Whereas usually it is: "if it doesn't say it works, I'd assume it doesn't". 

Conversely, the custom X-Plane flight plan format file is certainly useless with anything but X-Plane (and the tools designed to read this file format specifically). 

As a matter of fact, you might want to explore the possibility to:

1. load the FMS flight plan in LNM
2. export the loaded flight plan to the RXP GTN in LNM

You'll see, with little efforts I'm sure you'll find out the Reality XP GTN is certainly not useless with X-Plane 11!

 

2 hours ago, RXP said:

Hi Martin,

It is unfortunate you find our product useless for you.

I'll let others share their own experience with the Reality XP GTN, but please allow me to share my experience with my iPhone instead: it is not compatible with my car stereo system despite my car User's Manual makes no mention about this explicitly. This is the second time I read a similar comments in our forums along these lines: "if you don't say it won't work, I'd assume it does". Whereas usually it is: "if it doesn't say it works, I'd assume it doesn't". 

Conversely, the custom X-Plane flight plan format file is certainly useless with anything but X-Plane (and the tools designed to read this file format specifically). 

As a matter of fact, you might want to explore the possibility to:

1. load the FMS flight plan in LNM
2. export the loaded flight plan to the RXP GTN in LNM

You'll see, with little efforts I'm sure you'll find out the Reality XP GTN is certainly not useless with X-Plane 11!

 

I have tried it, but the device is not finding them, in fact it does not see them at all.

The reason why it might not see them is because the location where it is saved is a protected by the system and is not suppose to be a user accessible place

Hi Martin,

The 'program data' location is not protected and is meant for storing application data. This is where you'll find the Garmin trainer database files, and where you create the 'FPLN' folder to copy your flight plans into.

There are a few systems reporting a problem with the discovery of the files though and this is discussed here:

We are yet to find what is causing this because of the very few number of reports and the difficulty to find a 'commonality' between these, but we are still investigating. Maybe some of the suggestions in the aforementioned discussion will help?