Does an "IFR approved" GPS placard require database updates?

On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:24:32 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:

In rec.aviation.misc Charlie Derk wrote:
: During my instrument training I was told that if you have an IFR
: certified GPS, it had to be updated if you were using it for IFR Flight.
: You can use it VFR even if it hasn't been updated
: Charlie

As I've heard it, you can technically fly IFR with an expired database, so
long as you have verified that the data for every piece of information in the database
that you will use is correct.

-Cory


I've heard that recently myself. You can use an expired database GPS
for all the VFR you want. But to use it for IFR, you first have to
confirm the database information for any approach you'll use hasn't
changed. Or you have to manually chage it in the database if it has
changed.

I don't have a reference on that, but the subject came up in a group
of instructors and a couple of FAA inspectors. In any case, I know
the FAA is allowing a local FBO to rent out and train in a plane with
a LONG expired database. This Garmin 430 was definitely installed
complaint with TSO C129, but the owner was too cheap to keep up the
database updates.


Chuck