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Maneuver Card Generator

Write your maneuvers once. Download them as a Garmin Pilot .ace and a ForeFlight .fmd, or print them as a card deck or a kneeboard sheet.

Your cards never leave this browser. Printing needs no account; the Garmin and ForeFlight files come with a free one.

1 Aircraft

These fields are what Garmin Pilot and ForeFlight show at the top of the checklist, and what the printed cards carry as a title.

2 Maneuvers

The template above fills this in. Open it only to paste your own maneuvers or change the wording.

Edit the definition
Line format
# Group NameA group. Add [emergency] or [abnormal] to set the ForeFlight tab.
## Checklist NameA checklist inside the group.
Bank ~ 50 DEGChallenge and response, split on the ~.
Gear DownChallenge with no response.
NOTE: CAUTION: WARNING:Comment lines.
TITLE: TEXT:A heading, or plain body text.
---A blank spacer line.
[[VY]]A number you fill in above. Blank on an EFB file it reads VY; on a printed card it becomes a box.
[[VREF|1.3 VSO]]Same, with different wording to fall back to when it is blank.
[carb] Carb heat ~ ONOnly appears when that configuration is selected above. A fuel-injected engine has no carb heat, so the line is dropped rather than left as noise.

Write airplane-specific numbers either as a fill-in field — [[VY]] — or as the concept, VA OR BELOW, POH SETTING. Never as a bare blank: you cannot fill in an EFB checklist with a Sharpie, and a checklist full of ___ is worse than useless in flight. A fill-in field is safe because it always falls back to real wording in the EFB files, and only becomes an empty box on paper.

3 Download

For your EFB

Garmin Pilot, GTN, G3X

ForeFlight — unofficial format

Type it in by hand

To print

5.5 × 8.5 in — one card per maneuver

11 × 8.5 in landscape — kneeboard sheet

Both open your browser's print dialog. Choose Save as PDF as the destination if you want a file rather than paper. The colours print either way — there is no background-graphics setting to remember.

About the ForeFlight file. .fmd is not a published format. This tool writes it from community reverse-engineering, and ForeFlight has neither published nor blessed it. Check the import on the ground before you rely on it in the air, and use the plain-text download if it does not work for you. 61Insights is not affiliated with or endorsed by ForeFlight or Garmin.

Preview

Check the content before you fly with it. The templates summarize the Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3C) or the Instrument Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-15B), together with the Commercial Pilot ACS (FAA-S-ACS-7B), the Private Pilot ACS (FAA-S-ACS-6C) or the Instrument Rating ACS (FAA-S-ACS-8C); they do not quote them, and the multiengine and emergency items are derived rather than taken from an FAA list. The private template covers flight maneuvers only and omits the seaplane Tasks; the instrument template omits the preflight and postflight Tasks. Check the editions in force and your POH before a practical test. This tool is a reference aid, not a source of authority, and it is not a substitute for the approved checklist for your airplane.