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

Peter wrote:
"Chris" wrote


GPS for IFR is only just coming into Europe and I think that France recently
published the first GPS approach.


The issue isn't approaches; it is the ability to use the GPS for
European BRNAV routes. VOR/ADF/DME is not legally sufficient; a BRNAV
approved (loosely meaning the same as the U.S. "IFR approved") GPS is
mandatory for that. There is no way around this. Funny, isn't it,
given the lack of GPS approaches in Europe and the general anti-GPS
attitudes over here


This is not true: There are both VOR/DME -based and GPS-based
approved BRNAV airplanes in Europe.

The minimum requirement for BRNAV is a VOR/DME -based system
capable of storing at least 4 waypoints.

I have European approval on my Piper Turbo Arrow with a
King KNS-80 as the RNAV box.

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Tauno Voipio, (CPL(A), OH-PYM)
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