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GPS stayed Gold

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Forum Name: IFD 5 Series & IFD 4 Series Touch Screen GPS/NAV/COM
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Topic: GPS stayed Gold
Posted By: Stevei
Subject: GPS stayed Gold
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2019 at 2:31pm
Yesterday, it took at least 15 minutes for GPS to go "Green". Clear sky, no obstructions. 

I checked Foreflight and it was fine with GPS. I decided to depart since it was a local flight, and upon doing my runup, GPS went live.

What would account for such a long delay?





Replies:
Posted By: Flybuddy
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2019 at 3:29pm
Was this first flight after update?


Posted By: Stevei
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2019 at 3:47pm
No, it wasn’t, but the 2 previous following the update, took a while. Just not this long.


Posted By: mfb
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2019 at 11:46pm
Did you activate your flight plan on the FMS page? The GPS icon won’t go green until the flight plan is activated. It activates automatically when you take off.

Mike


Posted By: Stevei
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2019 at 10:40pm
Originally posted by mfb mfb wrote:

Did you activate your flight plan on the FMS page? The GPS icon won’t go green until the flight plan is activated. It activates automatically when you take off.

Mike

Mike,

Bingo. That's it.
Thanks so much. I'm a relatively new owner and I guess I activated flight plans earlier on previous flights.
Lesson learned.


Posted By: khuffine
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2019 at 11:45pm
Happened to me. It was already activated. I turned to vloc then back to gps and it went green instantly. May be a glitch.

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Khuffine



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