Jeppesen update for Airmap

[dutch crosswind]

For my Lowrance Airmap 500 I download irregularly the jeppesen international database via LEI. However sometimes LEI-extras is completely disappeared from internet, and sometimes I can only download an old update. However I need the latest urgently. They don't answer e-mails. Does anybody know what is happening and does anybody know an other way for the download? Or should I throw my GPS in the dustbin?

[wknick]

Lowrance has completely abandoned the aviation line of GPS receivers and no longer supports Jeppesen updates for the Airmap line of GPS receivers. I personally called the company in Tulsa, Oklahoma and received absolutely NO support from the technical services. I certainly expressed my displeasure at the company decision to no longer provide support. I took my Airmap 1000 overseas and installed the international database and very recently returned to the US. Upon visiting the LEI Extras (http://www.lei-extras.com/) I discovered I could not download an updated US aviation database. I'm unable to locate my previous US database file either to at least make some use of it again in the US for aviation. I called Jeppesen and was told they only provided the unformated aviation data to Lowrance whereupon the database was structured and formatted to make the *.at5 file to be read by the GPS. They weren't much help as they don't create the database file, only the data. Lowrance would not offer anything to allow users to continue to personally update the devices either.

Anybody out there have a copy of the latest Jeppesen aviation database file (JepAmr0706.at5) to send me. I don't know if I can get it to work on my SD card but I would certainly like to try!

[tedflyer]

I have jepint0808.at5 if you need it.

[pilotodc8]

by chance read your old post of the airmap 1000 file jepint0808.at5,if you have a copy please i need one,just got a unit with out any card and now is hard to use,
Thank for the help if you can
Piloto

[biplanegear]

Lowrance Avionics had a problem with quality control; Airmaps were manufactured in Mexico; shipped out to Tulsa; shipped out worldwide and some; if not many returned faulty; the sheer cost to the company must have outweighed any profits made apart from the loss of good will from Airmap customers. Quality Control was down the pan. Add to that Management problems; their management certainly had no idea of how to advertise worldwide hence Garmin wiped the board with them and only because the Airmap management were totally out of touch with international requirements; i.e. Jeppesen aviation international databases. European Military Traffic Zones did not exist and all that was needed was a few more Dollars for Jeppesen to incorporate MATZ into their databases; Lowrance never did this; couldn't be bothered and so they must have lost a lot of business to Garmin. I believe that Lowrance were more concerned about their home US market than the rest of the world; their loss, Garmin must have picked up many lost orders to Lowrance and only because of management incompetence at high levels. It is a pity; because the later Airmaps were excellent only to be let down by ignorance of the worldwide market that they lost. What a lesson to learn the hard way. Garmin must have smiled all the way to the bank. A great product that should still have been in the market place.

[pirmasens]

Hello, Id like a copy too please. Not sure of my database, but its been a long time since I updated mine and its probably older than this one. Thanks