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Garmin pilot 8.5 update today

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The feature wars continue! Winner = all users!

Major new features - Weight and Balance
Checklists
Freehand flight plan drawing

Minor enhancements - added ability to define climb, cruise, and descent fuel burn instead of just a single GPH number
more sharing abilities
import AOPA Flight Planner or SkyVector flight planning
can move home screen icons around


The weight and balance is pretty nice, I loaded all the parameters for my plane in, and it matches the spreadsheet I've been using

Checklists are also nice. there are a few prebuilt ones, but I'll put mine in manually over a few days.
 
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