Aviation database for Garmin 2610/2620?

I didn't write down what fix types I was using before starting
my experimentation and as a result I couldn't find any combination
which would give me SACRI and still be below the 32k limit. (I found
SACRI in the AOPA flight planner, and both my Garmin and Lowrance
databases have it, but after checking I couldn't find it on the VFR or
IFR charts.)

Per your suggestion I dropped all of the fix types and went
to VFR/IFR/High-IFR, got all of my fixes back, and had enough room to
put private airports and NDBs back into the database (about 25,500
waypoints, almost 5000 less than I had before). I had dropped the
private airports and NDBs when I started flying IFR and had to add all
of those fixes.

To answer your original question, I think the chart method of
selecting fixes is much better than the type selection method. I now
have private airports which gives CoPilot a leg up over my expensive
GPSs which don't.



On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:31:04 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, ArtP said:
I tried just using the IFR/VFR chart symbols. The good news is
my database went from 30,000 records to 15,000. The bad news is that
every one of my routes now has missing waypoints. It seems that many
of the IFR intersections are missing (ie. SACRI which is the
intersection of EMI/272 and ENO/318).

Both the FAA data and the DAFIF say that SACRI is only on the high
altitude en-route chart. Try selecting high altitude en-route.

In a previous article, ArtP said:
To answer your original question, I think the chart method of
selecting fixes is much better than the type selection method. I now
have private airports which gives CoPilot a leg up over my expensive
GPSs which don't.

Great to hear it.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
I use shell scripts at ork. Some cow-orkers refuse to touch them, their
excuse is usually "I don't understand perl". Their fear of perl is such
that all things unknown are also perl. -- Andrew Dalgleish

Slav Inger wrote:

Hi there,

Does anyone know if Garmin 2610 or 2620 can be loaded with an aviation
database to be used in the cockpit? Thanks.

I've done something similar with the eTrex Vista. First, I found a database
of US airports that included lat/long data. Then, I wrote a perl script
that found all airports within x miles from a given lat/long using a GC
formula, and then generated a waypoint file to load. I then used a linux
compatible gps utility to load the data via the serial interface. I was
using it for ballooning, but would work as well as a backup in the cockpit.

Cheers,

Jim