I've just sent a note about this to Garmin, but I ran into a huge issue tonight. I keep the eastern 1/3 of the country on my tablet - see "gp2.png" for a screen shot showing current approach plates for the eastern seaboard. This includes, specifically, both Virginia and Washington DC.
Yet when I go to the Washington Dulles (KIAD) airport page, note that many of the approaches and arrivals are marked with the blue "need to download" icon, and clicking on one of them (with Internet/Wifi disabled) gives the error "cannot connect to server".
Luckily I found this during flight planning but could you imagine being in IMC talking with Potomac and discovering that the charts you downloaded were just missing?
(Yes, I carry a backup, but the point is that if the charts say they're downloaded, why aren't they? And how can I _really_ download all the charts in the regions of interest?)
Like I said, I reported this to Garmin already but it has the potential to be a pretty big issue if encountered in flight, so I thought I would post here as well.
Steve Lin