Aviation Database Updates - Compatibility - GNS400W/500W

Since 1934, when Captain E.B. Jeppesen began selling the world’s first aviation navigation charts, the company that bears his name has evolved alongside — not in response to — aviation. We aren’t providers. We’re partners. We’re co-pilots. And just as it was with Captain Jeppesen, the spirit of pilot helping pilot guides everything we do.

With NavData®, get the most complete and accurate aeronautical information available.

Used by airlines, corporate flight departments, and almost every major avionics manufacturer in the world, Jeppesen NavData® offers you:

Coverage: Only Jeppesen offers worldwide coverage, with access to more than 7,000 airports
Content: Beyond NavData, Jeppesen also provides obstacle and terrain data, and customizable data services for many different platforms and manufacturers.
Accuracy: Because we expect nothing less than the best ourselves, information analysts meticulously edit and verify an average of nearly 600,000 database transactions monthly. Only original source documents are analyzed against the extensive and detailed data available in our systems. This data is then run through the thousands of business rules in our unrivaled database.
Quality: DO-200B Quality process compliant with FAA LOA 1 and EASA DAT certificates.
Configurability: We can tailor NavData specifically for your needs – or you can configure it yourself. No other solution offers the flexibility of Jeppesen NavData.
Concierge-level service: Jeppesen has NavData experts available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to help you with any issues

NavData by the Numbers

The Jeppesen Aviation Database contains more than 18,600 airports and 2.6 million data records. It’s no wonder some 30 percent of our workforce is comprised of charting and navigation experts to process this vast amount of information.

A database three times the size of any other provider

Jeppesen NavData provides the most complete and accurate aeronautical information available. NavData delivers coverage to over 7,000 airports and is the only offering that provides global coverage, with a database that is three times the size of any other provider. In order to provide the largest coverage available in the world, Jeppesen meticulously sifts through over 41,000 pages of source data from 190 countries every 28 days. NavData is available in raw ARINC 424 format or can be packed in the proprietary format for loading into practically all flight management systems and simulators.

Jeppesen Obstacle Database

Comprised of up-to-date data from digital and paper sources from governmental civil aviation and military agencies around the world, the Jeppesen Obstacle Database is the world’s most complete and most trusted database of natural and human-made obstacles relevant to aviation. Attributes contained in the database include:

Obstacle type
Geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude)
Elevation MSL
Coordinate datum
Height AGL
Number of structures per obstacle
Lighting
Vertical and horizontal accuracy

Jeppesen Terrain Database

The Jeppesen Terrain Database provides accurate terrain data to prevent controlled flight into terrain and to manage terrain avoidance warning systems. Like thousands of other pilots, dispatch and other flight operation planners, you can count on the Jeppesen Terrain Database to provide you with the most accurate information possible when there’s no room for error.

The Jeppesen Terrain Database provides a global, uniform, high-quality terrain data source
Base terrain layer resolution meets the basic accuracy requirements of US FAA Technical Standard Order C151b, Terrain Awareness and Warning Systems, and Area 1 under ICAO Annex 15
Jeppesen proprietary topography algorithms fill in any voids in SRTM data
Trace any elevation value back to its original source via intuitive graphical metadata
Terrain data is produced, maintained and distributed according to assurance level 3 requirements established by RTCA Document DO-200A, Standards for Processing of Aeronautical Data