Mike Racine

They did the same thing for me. I gave them the old “the problem is all over the pilot forum boards” and the garmin tech admitted I was his third call that day for the same issue. I’ve already received my card and updated it and installed it without issue. You will notice that the Gns430 will verify the integrity of the new card, so it takes a bit longer to boot up the first time…

Went to update my 530W and 430W databases today. Got through 3 of 4 cards, and the app stopped working while updating obstacles on the terrain card. Now the updater won’t see the card at all. Garmin says not their fault, but rather bad card. I’ve been flying with a GNS530s for 20+ years and have never had this problem. The card isn’t that old, and magically it crashes while updating…? I don’t think it’s the card that caused the problem, it’s the updating software that’s taking the cards out. If it’s the cards, why aren’t we seeing in-flight failures or on-start-up failures? Something is fishy here.

Here’s the FAAs official answer about clocks... https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/agc/practice_areas/regulations/Interpretations/data/interps/2016/Nkugba%20-%20%282016%29%20Legal%20Interpretation.pdf ...and the answer is yes, your GPS will suffice. I really like the timer functions of my GTX330ES transponder. And you can set it up so that using a countdown timer, it’ll announce “Timer expired” in your headset...