Originally Posted by Underfire
Many obstacles and terrain which were not previously an issue, became issues and had to be added to the database.
You're talking nonsense. The
E in EGPWS is purely GPS & database-based. If an obstacle is not in the database, the box won't squawk that you are going to hit it! It n to a forward-looking radar.
There is the "off-airport" mode, but as I said, based on what I have seen using the system for many years, I doubt that it would have given a warning.