Updating Data............ CRASH!

Geico266

Geico266

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I have the wost luck updating data into anything. Must be my age, bad mojo, or something.

A few years ago I had an RV-9A with a Blue Mountain EFIS 1 system in it and I was getting ready for OSH. Plane packed, everything was ready. I mean OSH started in 6 hours! I slipped in the update CD, went through the simple proceedures and Poof! The black screen of death. :mad2: $1,200 and 3 weeks later I was good to go. :mad:

I told myself to NEVER again update anything. :no:

I tried to update the road maps in my Garmin 496. I use it everyday. I bought the update, followed the instructions to a "T" everything seemed to work, then after 2 hours of updating the 496 says "Unable to complete update." "Media card not correct format."
This has an internal media card and there is no way for me to format it!:mad2::mad2:

I told myself to never update anything!:no:

Last night I tried to update the Cheltons for the first time since I owned the plane. Bought a Jeppesen update, loaded in the SmartMedia card and tried to update the NAV / Obsticle data by carefully following Chelton instructions. Poof! The white screens of death! :mad2::mad2::mad2:

The data card was corrupted, but Jeppesen's update manager is suppose to "check" the card prior to it being ready to use. Obviously, they need to work on that. :yesnod:

I told myself I'm an idiot, and I should listen to myself.:yes:

Is it just me or do other have problems with updating avionics?
 
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I tried and tried and tried to update the lowrance via the website - not a chance in the world it was gonna work. I finally just bought the updated card from 'em and sent them my old one back. :rolleyes:

I hate technology. Even this computer. Especially this computer. :mad:
 
Three times when updating my Avidyne EX500 from a USB memory stick I'd get almost all the way through the procedure and it would pop up a message that one of the files was found to be corrupt. This would leave me with no aviation data in the MFD since it wouldn't finish the update of the files that were OK and it had already erased the prior data. The first time this happened I flew the trip without the MFD's data and when I got home I ran checkdisk and also did a verify on the data but all was found OK. Next time this happened I just repeated the upload without touching anything and it worked on the second pass. Same thing the third time. Each time was with a different memory stick. Something tells me there's a bug in the EX500 update routine.
 
I have a kln89b with the appropriate cables. The gps updates are cheaper if you download them yourself (a difference of $200? a year). For the security of having the old datacard, I opted for the card replacement.
The luck I've had doing updates (GARMIN nu`vi, GARMIN 496) tells me some processes are not all that foolproof. The extra expense may be worth it.
 
Why don't you do like I do. I just don't update my own stuff, let someone else do it. :rolleyes::smile:
 
Like I told Larry last nite ... I always used two data cards when doing the Jep update .. then if the one I was doing got corrupted I still had the previous one to fall back on.

RT
 
RogerT said:
Like I told Larry last nite ... I always used two data cards when doing the Jep update .. then if the one I was doing got corrupted I still had the previous one to fall back on.

RT
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The reason it crashed is cuz you showed up and jinxed it! :yesnod:
 
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