Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #59119
From: Colyn Case <colyncase@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Jeppesen Sanderson NavData & Obstacle Coverage, Cobham (Chelton) EFIS Non-LVP Americas Highway Robbery
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:49:05 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>

So this gets to the question of exactly what can change in the gps data base.
I assume waypoints can come and go and new procedures show up, or get enhanced with vnav.
How do you deal with that?

On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Danny Miller wrote:

Keeping your databases is very expensive.  Unfortunately, if you're going to
use your GPS for IFR flight, approaches, procedures, etc., it must be kept
current.  My alternative is to use my iPad with a $150/yr subscription to
ForFlight (http://www.foreflight.com/ipad) for all my flights (VFR & IFR)
and then once a year I update my Garmin 430W databases for $100.  It seems
to work very well and I don't have Jeppesen gouging me.

Danny Miller
N 38° 43' 25.7"
W 77° 30' 38.6"


-----Original Message-----
From: John Hafen [mailto:j.hafen@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 7:48 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: Jeppesen Sanderson NavData & Obstacle Coverage, Cobham (Chelton)
EFIS Non-LVP Americas Highway Robbery

I just wrote out a check for $624.45 to keep my Chelton system up to date
for another year.

Do any of you know a less expensive option than Jeppesen?  Or do they simply
have a corner on this market place?

Regards,

John Hafen
IVP 413AJ 300+ hours
55 degrees, raining, with heavy icing above Seattle, world's worst place to
own an airplane  --
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