Amy Wilder is a private pilot with more than two decades of experience as a writer and editor in a career spanning journalism, marketing, and communications. 
She has worked in aviation journalism since 2023, combining a lifelong passion for flight and a love of the aviation community with a penchant for storytelling. As a licensed pilot, she brings firsthand insight to the stories she covers, lending an authentic, on-the-ground perspective to industry coverage.
She holds a Master of Arts in Eastern Classics and a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts, both from St. John&#039;s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Culture.

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The new Flights page replaces the previous Trip Planning page and consolidates route planning, weight and balance, fuel planning, and flight briefing into a single interface. Quickset cards allow users to enter data and expand to view additional details. The update aligns the mobile app experience with Garmin Pilot Web.
SmartCharts, previously available in the U.S. and Bahamas, will expand to Canada and Mexico in August for Garmin Pilot Premium subscribers. Pilots operating in those regions will gain access to the continuous descent final approach&nbsp;path on the vertical profile view, which Garmin said supports a more stable approach on nonprecision procedures. Cold-weather altitude adjustments will be available for cold-temperature-restricted airports in Canada and the U.S. In addition, a worldwide subscription option is available for pilots operating across multiple regions.
“The redesigned Flights page delivers a more intuitive flight planning experience with integrated routing, weight and balance, and fuel planning tools,” said Carl Wolf, Garmin v-p, aviation sales and marketing. “The highly requested expansion of SmartCharts brings this simple, dynamic charting solution to more pilots flying in North America.”
For AirVenture, the FISK VFR Arrival SmartCharts procedure now includes additional labels to identify waypoints and key details, colored runway dots and squares matching those used by air traffic control, and a direct link to the EAA AirVenture notam. Beginning July 9, users can also load the FISK procedure as a standard terminal arrival route into compatible Garmin avionics via the database cycle update, enabling autopilot coupling along the arrival route.

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