That is definitely a legend !! We just came through the Rocks
with an AvMap EKP IV - they are THE greatest GPS !!!!!
We've flown with ours with 3 year-out-of-date data - not a
good idea for serious trips, but it certainly works fine. It does
warn about the date, but that's just at startup .... Same for
the terrible "moving map" GPS built into our King Nav-Com -
it's almost always 3 years out-of-date .... maybe this year
I'll have to cough up for the update, to Ramble ...
just in case I have to fall back to that GPS.
Never heard of ANY GPS that would stop working just
because the data was out of date --- could have been some
other cause.... Like being out of clear sight of satellites
from being waaaay down in a valley ... ;-)
--
......bobp
http://www.prosumers.ca
http://bpatterson.qhealthbeauty.com
http://apatterson2.qhealthzone.com
-------------------------------orig.-------------------------
On Saturday 02 June 2007 13:25, Garry Wright wrote:
I heard a story some time back - about a year - that someone was flying
with an Avmap EKP IV (thru the rocks no less) when their database
expired and the unit shut down. This sounds like an urban legend type
report but I'm interested because I want to make sure it does not happen
to me. My database is almost at the asserted 1 year expiry and it has
not happened to me yet. Anyone know of this report?
Garry
068R
-----------------------------------------------------------------
List archives located at: https://mail.dcsol.com/login
username "rebel" password "builder"
Unsubscribe: rebel-builders-unsubscribe@dcsol.com
List administrator: mike.davis@dcsol.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------
