A C208 captain noted that the aircraft GPS database would be out of date the next day and upon retur...

Attributes
ACN	961996
Time
Date	201107
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Caravan 208B
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 135
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	GPS & Other Satellite Navigation
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Maintenance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

While performing pre-flight duties; the following message was observed on the GPS screen. 'Data base expires on [yesterday]'. The event occurred as part of the navigational equipment pre-flight because for unknown reasons [yesterday] the maintenance department failed to install the new cards not only on this aircraft but in all our local fleet. [Today] when I went to the aircraft and during pre flight the display now changed to yellow 'data base [yesterday] expired.' I called maintenance control to inform them about the discrepancy. As a line of defense; flight operations can provide us as a warning/caution message to check the data base information the previous date.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A C208 Captain noted that the aircraft GPS database would be out of date the next day and upon return the next day the DATABASE EXPIRED message was displayed. Maintenance was notified.

Narrative: While performing pre-flight duties; the following message was observed on the GPS screen. 'Data base expires on [yesterday]'. The event occurred as part of the navigational equipment pre-flight because for unknown reasons [yesterday] the maintenance department failed to install the new cards not only on this aircraft but in all our local fleet. [Today] when I went to the aircraft and during pre flight the display now changed to yellow 'data base [yesterday] expired.' I called Maintenance Control to inform them about the discrepancy. As a line of defense; Flight Operations can provide us as a warning/caution message to check the Data base information the previous date.

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.

A C208 captain noted that the aircraft GPS database would be out of date the next day and upon return the next day the database expired message was displayed. Maintenance was notified.