AdamZ
Touchdown! Greaser!
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- Feb 24, 2005
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- Montgomery County PA
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Adam Zucker
So I was planning a flight to a private paved strip that is on the sectionals ( no instrument approach) and I fire up the 296 to load in the route for the intended trip and I go happily along plugging in the home field then the first VOR and the Second, third and fourth. ( I know I can go D-> but felt like using it as a back up for an IR trip in a /U plane.So I get to the destination field and NADA nothing it won't plug in ugh!
I call Garmin and they tell me that Jepp does not include private fields (in their data base unless the field pays a fee ( onetime fee) to be in the data base. They suggest I call Jepp. I call Jepp and Jepp confirms. Said they never got accurate info from the Feds on the private strips like when they close during certain seasons or if they close permanatly etc. They couldn't tell me what the fee to be included was but man what a PITA.
Garmin told me that private fields and Heliports are in the 496 Data base but thats the only one and that Garmin includes them not Jepp. Sheeseh now I'm acutally gonna have to do some pilotage.
I call Garmin and they tell me that Jepp does not include private fields (in their data base unless the field pays a fee ( onetime fee) to be in the data base. They suggest I call Jepp. I call Jepp and Jepp confirms. Said they never got accurate info from the Feds on the private strips like when they close during certain seasons or if they close permanatly etc. They couldn't tell me what the fee to be included was but man what a PITA.
Garmin told me that private fields and Heliports are in the 496 Data base but thats the only one and that Garmin includes them not Jepp. Sheeseh now I'm acutally gonna have to do some pilotage.