Updating Bendix King GPS databases without pulling your hair out.

Background:
Many CAP aircraft have IFR approved GPS navigators installed in them and all new aircraft purchased have the uber-capable Garmin G1000 flight deck installed. Part of the FAA requirements to be able to use these sophisticated and extremely accurate satellite-based navigation systems for flight under instrument flight rules is that the on-board database of airport and waypoint information be updated every four weeks. That's every twenty eight days--or a little more often than once per month. This article is the first in a series of articles we will be publishing as a guide to keeping your GPS databases up-to-date and the aircraft ready to go at a moment's notice...

Read the rest at the Civil Air Patrol community site, The CAPvine.