kimberlyanne546
Final Approach
According to Wiki sites, the Hollister airport in CA is at least 20 years old (sorry, can't figure out when it was built).
I know for SURE that the yoke mounted, small, portable GPS unit in my little rental 150 is not that old.
Yet, when I took it out of the plane on my vacation, determined to figure out how to use the darned thing for my flight back, or at least program it with my five airport way points / route / flight plan - it did NOT have Hollister.
The owner told me before I left the database had not been updated in a while or maybe not ever (unsure).
After much fiddling, I figured out how to plug in the long / lat that AOPA had on my printed flight plan. Even then I had to do so in another screen / menu by creating a user defined way point.
So my question is - Hollister is a large, two runway, untowered (but well known) airport. How could it not be in my Garmin?
Is there a work around I could have used?
And before you ask, no, I did not RTFM (didn't have one).
I know for SURE that the yoke mounted, small, portable GPS unit in my little rental 150 is not that old.
Yet, when I took it out of the plane on my vacation, determined to figure out how to use the darned thing for my flight back, or at least program it with my five airport way points / route / flight plan - it did NOT have Hollister.
The owner told me before I left the database had not been updated in a while or maybe not ever (unsure).
After much fiddling, I figured out how to plug in the long / lat that AOPA had on my printed flight plan. Even then I had to do so in another screen / menu by creating a user defined way point.
So my question is - Hollister is a large, two runway, untowered (but well known) airport. How could it not be in my Garmin?
Is there a work around I could have used?
And before you ask, no, I did not RTFM (didn't have one).