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Garmin Pilot Update Provides Taxiway Closure Notams
By: Kerry Lynch
Caption: Garmin has added several features and improvements to its Pilot app, from taxiway notams to improved dynamic map displays.
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Garmin has released the latest update to its Garmin Pilot aviation app, adding new features such as a graphic display of taxiway and apron closures, along with SafeTaxi diagrams. Version 10.7 of the Garmin Pilot app—which provides flight-planning, weather, logbook, and other features designed for navigation—incorporates upgrades to its dynamic map and notam functions and builds in capabilities such as annotation on the screen. Further, Garmin has expanded third-party support.

The dynamic map enhancements change optimizes the visibility and size of navigation data, airspace boundary depictions, and airport icons. This provides a clearer view as the user zooms and pans around the map while looking at navigation data, airports, and airspace.

As far as the graphical notams, Garmin Pilot will display closures of both taxiways and aprons at airports in the U.S. and will provide alerts when new notices are available. The app further “decodes” notams into plain English.

Another improvement enables the user to take notes, draw taxiway routings, or highlight weather through a new, on-screen map annotation feature. The app will allow up to three pages of saved annotation.

In addition, Garmin Pilot will support select Bad Elf GPS models and, when connected to Stratux, will be able to display ADS-B weather and traffic information as well as backup attitude and GPS position, Garmin said.