Darrel Toepfer wrote:
Jimmy B. wrote:

All preventative maintenance must be logged, including updating the
database on your GPS unit. So, if you have updated your GPS database
and did not log it, you're not airworthy. This one caught a lot of
pilots.


You must be thinking panel mounted... There are lots of time line rules
in regards to IFR panels...
Yeah, sorry. This referred to panel mounted units only.

It was kind of interesting because the same question came up in the
seminar. Someone asked about a hand held GPS running on its own
batteries. Then about a hand held running off of the cigarette lighter.
Then about being Velcro mounted, Then bracket mounted. It was kind of
funny.