Navdata

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Royski wrote:

Paul wrote: I can think of three issues with allowing other companies to produce charts and plates for the IFD. One is certification.  If you buy a download from Joe's Bar & Grill and Charts and Plates are you legal to fly IFR approaches?  Who said the data is good and how was it tested? Another is financial.  I think Jepp gives Avidyne money whenever they sell an IFD subscription.  This revenue stream is part of Avidyne's financial model.  If they didn't get it they would have to charge IFD owners somehow to make up the difference. Another is contractual.  I don't know if the contract with Jepp has limits on what they can do that competes. I'm sure Seattle would like to be able to sell charts for a certified GPS but by the time they overcame the hurdles I don't know if they would be much less expensive. (Nature abhors a vacuum and fills it with speculation.  Steve, feel free to chime in and correct my musings.)

tony wrote: Steve, will Avidyne make the ICD for the database public so other companies like Seattle Avionics can compete with jepp?

The above is copied from other threads.  The Jepp navdata rates are incrementally more than I was paying for my 430, but of course my 430 was non-waas.  In any case I did not see these questions answered. 

I believe it is safe to say most if not all of us would prefer competition over a monopoly in navdata providers.  So how about it?  Should we expect to see other options at some point such as Seattle Avionics?

Richard,

We'll run that example by the Jepp reps we work with to see if they agree with that pricing quote you got.

Frustrating for sure.  If you send me (sjacobson@avidyne.com) your contact info, we'll make sure the Jepp rep fixes this pronto.

Scott - Jeppesen have sorted it out in the mean time through some kind of manual entry of the order and I have been able to update the navdata.

I've read that any good quality FOB will do. There is supposed to be a 2 GB (?) one included with the device.

You will want to make sure you get it, at least those who have not yet had installs completed.  

This is a question for those who have been through more than one data update cycle. After our first download, the USB fob contained three database files (charts, navdata and obstacles) and some sort of authorization file. As a practice, it seems to make sense to delete old files prior to the next download, both to conserve space on the fob and to avoid confusion about which files to download into the IFD540. Should the authorization file be deleted along with the data files, or does it make any difference?