If one-stop shopping for your database updates sounds too good to be true, well, you’re still mostly right. But for some owners, the time has arrived, thanks to a program from Jeppesen and Garmin called PilotPak that lets select owners pay for one database subscription and install it on all of their panel-mount units.
PilotPak still has a limited customer set; for now it applies solely to owners of airplanes with late-model Garmin avionics to get single-database pricing for their multiple Garmin products. An airplane owner who has a GTN 750 and 650 along with a G500 PFD/MFD would pay for one database instead of three. The cost savings could be dramatic. With the three-database configuration described above, the annual cost of database subscriptions would drop by as much as 70 percent.
