IFD and Foreflight Synchronization

I'm able to push flight plans from Foreflight to the IFD-440 but can't seem to figure out how to update Foreflight if I make a route change on the IFD. Any help would be appreciated. 

Edited by scotthess - 20 Jul 2019 at 9:49pm

If you make a route change in the IFD, I found you have to push the new flightplan to FF again.  It doesn't happen automatically just because you had pushed the previous plan to FF.

Agreed. After skipping a waypoint on the IFD, FF doesn’t know that either. You have to tell FF what segment of the route you are on. (At least that has been my experience). Once you are on the correct segment on FF, it seems to follow along fine. 

Edited by teeth6 - 20 Jul 2019 at 11:23pm

Yes. You first push the new route to FF and then tell FF what segment of the route you are on.  Obviously, your plane will be positioned properly on the map showing it on the route, but in the flight plan section above the map, you must make the proper segment active. 

I don't understand why a Garmin navigator in a Cirrus can push sync flight plans to Foreflight but the IFD cannot.  The capability is obviously there in Foreflight.  In a friend's Cirrus the other day Foreflight continuously updated itself when a change was made on the plane's panel navigator.  So Foreflight is capable of this which means that Avidyne is choosing not to pursue this feature.  I for one would really like to see this happen- it is very impractical to have to manually push the flight plan back to FF after every change on the IFD.  I understand why it would not be enabled the reverse direction for legal reasons - like you don't want FF changing the IFD plan unless specifically commanded to do so, but synchronization in the direction of IFD TO FF would be very useful.

I actually prefer consciously pushing the flight plan in either direction. FF is a separate electronic flight bag from the IFD, not just a display of what the IFD is doing. The latter is what the IFD100 does.

Melohn wrote: There is an option in ForeFlight to “Automatically Receive Flight Plans”. When turned on, it only works with Garmin products, not the IFD.

HenryM wrote: ForeFlight currently initiates the flight plan transfer all on its own when you tap an icon. It seems it should be able to do so without having to do anything on the IFD side. maybe a feature request for ForeFlight?

HenryM wrote: I don’t see an IFD feature to initiate a flight plan transfer. The EFB is responsible for that, and could poll the IFD every so often to see if the FP has changed. The EFB (ForFlight or any other one) could do this all on its own. The EFB could make it work in either direction too.

True.  Plus after sending a new or changed flight plan to FF you still after tell it what leg of the plan you are on.  Not a big deal in my opinion.