That's not what we are trying to do. We don't have a computer with a fast
internet connection at the airport, so we have to write the new data every
month at a remote location (our maintenance officers house). We are going to
buy duplicate cards so that we can prepare three of them, and go to the
airport once and install them in the three airplanes. We will have three
subscriptions.

I was just trying to find cards for less than the $130 each that Garmin
charges for them. If they are 256 meg SD cards, that is way higher than they
can be gotten for elsewhere. We just don't know what they are yet because we
haven't gotten our first 530 installed.

Brad
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Brad Salai wrote:

Does anyone know the format of the data cards for the GNS 530? Our club
is
putting them in our small fleet, and we are considering buying extra
data
cards to make the updates easier. The Garmin price seems high. If these
are
standard cards, we may be able to do better elsewhere. Anyone have any
experience to share?

Brad

The license for the navdata is for one unit. If you figure out how to
distribute the data for use in more than one unit at the same time, you
will
not only have a contractual issue, I suspect the FAA would be inclined to
withdraw the IFR certification of the installation (s).