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New Navdata.db3 - 20120701

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EK01:
A big thankyou to Alan and Rod. Having carried out their instructions to the letter, I now have the following :

Number of routes in the table : 396,350 (was 217).
Number of airports in the table : 10,779 (was 8114).
Number of aircraft in the table : 109,152 (was 163,320).

The aircraft table has obviously reverted to pre latest download levels. Without encountering the same problems, what is the best way of carrying out the latest download and only having the aircraft table affected or do I just leave things as they are (being computer illiterate possibly the best idea).

Ian

Runway 31:
If the routes are your main interest I would not update using the Navdata Updater.  You can always use populate to get new aircraft or use the utility details posted previously but not being too computer literate it may be best just to leave things as they are and use populate.

I prefer to have the aircraft and let the system tell me about the routes.

Alan

EK01:
Cheers Alan.
Much appreciated. I'll just leave things as they are !

Ian

Hawkeye:
I prefer a regular clear out of the old RB route data because with all the flight number changes the airlines make, especially in spring and autumn, a lot of it is out of date. It doesn’t seem logical to me to keep an outdated  database which could be providing a lot of incorrect information.
As Alan says, the autopopulate facility brings them up to date fairly quickly anyway.
I also run FlightDisplayLite when using RB which also finds quite a lot of current routes which haven’t autopopulated.

It’s obvious though that users should have the choice of updating route data separately, not least to make all the tremendous work people put in to update the aircraft database worthwhile.  Seems pointless them providing updates that people aren’t going to download just because they have to have irrelevant info they don’t want.  Shouldn’t be too difficult to split them surely?

As Ian and Rod point out there’s also a problem with the 20120701 update regarding airports and codes which in my opinion means it is of  little or no use to anybody. The ones that don’t want to update routes won’t be downloading  it anyway and the rest will surely have done as I have and reverted to the previous one, again making the updaters work seem a waste of time and effort. I haven’t downloaded it again to check but presumably as AirNav haven’t said otherwise this problem hasn’t yet been resolved. 

Regards

Syd

Runway 31:
Syd,

I believe in the past that Airnav have said that the tables cannot be seperated and to have it any different than it is now requires a software re-write hence it will have to stay this way until the next version

The good thing is that there are way round it using the utility detailed above so no one needs to miss out.  I havent seen any mention of airports and codes on the thread.

Alan

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