1 Aircraft
These fields are what Garmin Pilot shows at the top of the checklist, and what the printed cards carry as a title.
Your numbers
Fill these in for the airplane you fly and they flow into every download. Leave one blank and the EFB files keep the general wording, while the printed cards leave you a box to write in.
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 Name | A group. Add [emergency] or [abnormal] to set its category, shown as a tab in the preview. |
## Checklist Name | A checklist inside the group. |
Bank ~ 50 DEG | Challenge and response, split on the ~. |
Gear Down | Challenge 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 ~ ON | Only 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
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.