General aviation pilot flies the GPS 36 approach to jwy with an expired data base and a current pape...

Attributes
ACN	856604
Time
Date	200910
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	JWY.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Flight Conditions	Mixed
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft High Wing 1 Eng Retractable Gear
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	GPS & Other Satellite Navigation
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 20 Flight Crew Total 1400 Flight Crew Type 700
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

I was flying from my home field to jwy and both airports are in the dallas/ft worth area; and are only 30 or so miles apart. The weather was marginal with a thin cloud deck at around 900AGL; so I filed an IFR flight plan. Once above the clouds the weather was clear; but the cloud deck remained below as I was vectored towards jwy. Near my destination I was cleared direct 'gadte' intersection for the GPS 36 into jwy. I had printed out the approach plate for jwy and of course gadte was there. However; when I went to select the approach on my garmin 430 the gadte transition was not available. I asked for; and received; direct herno and did a procedure turn there. Unfortunately; the database subscription on my GPS had expired and the approach had changed in the meantime. While there was no safety of flight issue (I was above the clouds and only entered the clouds after passing herno intersection on a segment of the approach which had not changed) it could have been an issue if I was in worse weather and/or in an area I didn't know well.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: General aviation pilot flies the GPS 36 approach to JWY with an expired data base and a current paper chart and is unable to fly the GADTE transition as the procedure has changed.

Narrative: I was flying from my home field to JWY and both airports are in the Dallas/Ft Worth area; and are only 30 or so miles apart. The weather was marginal with a thin cloud deck at around 900AGL; so I filed an IFR flight plan. Once above the clouds the weather was clear; but the cloud deck remained below as I was vectored towards JWY. Near my destination I was cleared direct 'GADTE' intersection for the GPS 36 into JWY. I had printed out the approach plate for JWY and of course GADTE was there. However; when I went to select the approach on my Garmin 430 the GADTE transition was not available. I asked for; and received; direct HERNO and did a procedure turn there. Unfortunately; the database subscription on my GPS had expired and the approach had changed in the meantime. While there was no safety of flight issue (I was above the clouds and only entered the clouds after passing HERNO intersection on a segment of the approach which had not changed) it could have been an issue if I was in worse weather and/or in an area I didn't know well.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

General aviation pilot flies the GPS 36 approach to jwy with an expired data base and a current paper chart and is unable to fly the gadte transition as the procedure has changed.