Garmin G3X Touch and GTN - How to Install Databases

Great tutorial... I'll hopefully having to go through this soon. Well, not "hopefully" with regards to the costs of the db... ugh that's pricey.

If you remove the SD cards in the G3X, it won't save flight data or data to upload to FlyGarmin Log Books. I have a GTN 25. I should pull the SD after updating?

Great end user video! I love this kind of info👍🏼

Great information - New to the G3X & getting close to panel completion & fire-up. What memory size cards should one order, 5 each?

Great video, horribly antiquated technical process. Garmin needs to make this possible through a store on device or at worst through a modern mobile smart phone app.

I get that you would keep the non database card in the G3X, but I thought you were supposed to leave the database card in the GTN650? I seem to remember not having it in mine once and it was problem. Is this a difference between the 650 and 650Xi? Thanks and great video!

Do you have to purchase the updates every cycle?

Ever notice how you don't actually get any support from Garmin if you are not a dealer?

You're telling me that $13000 GTN doesn't come with the databases already installed?

What size SD cards do you recommend?

Few things frustrate me more than the price of avionics. Not only do you first pay $50k (the price of an entire luxury car) for some hopelessly outdated computer hardware, you then have to pay a grand a year for data that the US government collects on the taxpayer's dime. (Geo-referenced plates, terrain data, airport data, it's all freely provided by the FAA/USGA). It's just... wrong.

Since when is the database card left out of the GTN? Or did you use a different card for the nav database update?

Thanks! After Hours of searching, now I’m confident I can cracjk the code and actually find my GTN750XI and G3X system ID’s!

Now if I could just find a way to have the G3X Touch display “% Engine Power” the way the old G3X Legacy model does🤷🏼‍♂

Hello. I would like to know how I can add more airfield runways in the G3X (map)? Thank you.

Very helpful thank you.

Is it possible to update the Certified G3X Flight Charts and VFR/IFR charts one day early (i.e. BEFORE the current database expires), or do I have to wait until the old database expires?