Hi John,

 

Make sure you are inserting the memory card into the slot with the gold contacts forward and facing down.  Some of the instructions say incorrectly to have the gold contacts up.  Make sure the card slides all the way into the Chelton so that it is not protruding at all.

 

If you have a two screen system, does the card work in screen #2?

 

I assume you're already doing that, which means the card is probably bad.  The card that came with my system was bad, too.  You might try reformatting it to see if that fixes it (it didn't fix mine).  I bought new cards from Olympus online; I don't know if they still sell them or not.  You might search eBay.  Chelton may sell new cards, too.  As a last resort, the http://cheltonefispilots.com/

website has instructions for replacing the older SM card reader with newer technology.

 

If all else fails, you might try connecting a computer keyboard to the Chelton and working from that.  But you'll still likely want to have functioning memory cards to allow updating the Jeppesen navigation and obstacle data every month for IFR flight and downloading your data file after each flight to save on your home computer's hard disk.  There's a wealth of information there and it's a shame not to save it.

 

Good luck,

Dennis