Garmin : Save Valuable Time with FltPlan.com Pre-Departure Clearances
February 11, 2019 at 05:50 pm EST
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What's the most valuable asset to a pilot? Many would probably tell you time, especially when there's a business interest involved. For most pilots, getting from point A to point B as safely, quickly and efficiently as possible is the main objective. Fortunately, we have a tool that can help. Our built-in Pre-Departure Clearance (PDC) services on FltPlan.com were created to help flight crews and passengers save valuable time, allowing them to get airborne, and ultimately to their destination, faster and more conveniently.
What's the Advantage of PDC?
Our PDC services can add convenience and help reduce time on the ground prior to departure. Instead of the conventional method of calling ATC for departure release, our FAA-approved PDCs are natively integrated into FltPlan.com and eliminate the need to call clearance delivery from the cockpit. These PDC services are currently available at more than 70 airports throughout the United States.
Pre-Departure Clearance within FltPlan.com
How It Works
It's easy - simply submit a flight plan for approval within FltPlan.com, and an approved PDC will appear for an active flight approximately 20-30 minutes before your filed departure time. PDC notifications can be received via email, text or as a pop-up that opens in a separate window when the PDC message is displayed on a pilot's active flight plan list within FltPlan.com.
PDCs include:
Your filed route
Amendments to your route
Your cleared altitude
Your transponder code
Your departure frequency
Any special instructions
No Datalink? No Problem.
PDCs are a great solution for aircraft that aren't equipped with controller-pilot datalink communications (CPDLC). Pilots have access to PDCs on a mobile device running FltPlan.com, or by receiving PDC information via text and email notifications.
PDC services are available with FltPlan.com and a $199 per year subscription, per aircraft. For more information and to sign up for service, visit https://www.fltplan.com/pdcinfo.htm.
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Garmin Ltd. published this content on 11 February 2019 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 11 February 2019 22:49:00 UTC
Garmin Ltd. is one of the world's leaders in designing, producing, and marketing satellite geopositioning systems (GPS). The activity is organized around two families of products:
- marine and land geopositioning systems: tracers and sensors, pocket assistants, automobile guidance systems, sporting equipment (equipped with detectors for speed, distance traveled, heart rate, etc.);
- aerial geopositioning equipment: high-frequency communication transmitters, aerial display products, digital transponders (for transmitting altitude and flight number, broadcast by towers and control radar systems), beacon receivers, audio panels, etc.
Net sales break down by area of activity between outdoor activities (32.5%), sports and fitness (25.7%), marine (17.5%), aviation (16.2%), and automotive (8.1%).
At the end of 2023, the group had 9 production sites located in the United States (3), Taiwan (3), China, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (50%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (34%) and Asia/Pacific (16%).
GARMIN LTD. 
