<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1292228, September 2015

An air taxi crew on a training flight discovered some airport RNAV GPS approaches in the aircraft GPS database had been removed without notice from jeppesen.

Attributes
ACN	1292228
Time
Date	201509
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Chancellor 414A / C414
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	VFR
Component
Aircraft Component	GPS & Other Satellite Navigation
Person 1
Function	Instructor
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 10700 Flight Crew Type 520
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

While training for a checkride; we attempted to execute the RNAV 17 approach. We discovered that on the last database update from jeppesen; both the GPS approaches for our airport; RNAV(GPS) 17 & RNAV(GPS) 34 had been deleted. There was no notification via jeppesen update or NOTAM that these approaches were not available. Had this been an IFR/IMC arrival; we would have been caught unaware and would not have been able to land at the destination since the only other approach is a VOR/DME and at the time; the VOR was notamed OTS. This has happened to this operator several times to different airports in the last year. Something needs to be done to notify operators when approaches have been deleted from databases and subsequently made unavailable.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air taxi crew on a training flight discovered some airport RNAV GPS approaches in the aircraft GPS database had been removed without notice from Jeppesen.

Narrative: While training for a Checkride; we attempted to execute the RNAV 17 Approach. We discovered that on the last Database update from Jeppesen; both the GPS approaches for our airport; RNAV(GPS) 17 & RNAV(GPS) 34 had been deleted. There was no notification via Jeppesen Update or NOTAM that these approaches were not available. Had this been an IFR/IMC arrival; we would have been caught unaware and would not have been able to land at the destination since the only other approach is a VOR/DME and at the time; the VOR was NOTAMed OTS. This has happened to this operator several times to different airports in the last year. Something needs to be done to notify operators when approaches have been deleted from Databases and subsequently made unavailable.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.