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Current users may update their EFB installations by downloading and executing the AivlaSoft EFB Installer or Update 1.3.10 found here: http://www.aivlasoft.com/download/index.html Changelog: http://www.aivlasoft.com/download/changelog.htm

Hi Alan, Navigraph is already working on a revision. Should be available very soon.

Hi Alan, thanks for the detailed report. Much appreciated. I quick view into the KFHR.txt file shows that with cycle 1304 Navigraph has slightly changed the data format without telling me so I will get in touch with them and let you know.

Hi, as per the forum rules, please sign your posts with your real first name. Thanks. Basically there are two sources used: simulator data (*.bgl files) for all facility data like airports, runways, ILS frequencies, navaids. Procedural information is taken from the AIRAC cycle currently installed. If you update your navigation data (either Aerosoft NavDataPro or Navigraph FMS data) on a regular basis, as well as you install up-to-date scenery files, you will get the charts up to date.

Hi Alan, yes please, always install the update for both components, the DataProvider and the DisplayUnit, regardless whether its a distributed system or not.

Hi, and welcome to the forum. As per the forum rules, please sign your posts with your real first name. Thanks. I don't know the "right" procedures to arrive into EGBB, but I can explain the technical details behind the curtain. The filters South, North, East, West are sectors of 90°, starting at 45° to 135° for East, then 135° to 225° for South etc. Every procedure (SID or STAR) is verified to which sector it leads or from which sector it comes. This "classification" is just a rough idea to get an overview. It might happen that none of the procedures are listed in the southern sector but you will find one in either the eastern or western sector. If you intend to land into runway 33 at EGBB you can fly the GROV1B arrival which is listed in the eastern sector. Although the first and the second leg of GROV1B have a heading of 322° is is listed in the eastern sector and not in the southern. Why? EFB only takes the first and the last waypoint into consideration when determining the direction. Hope this helps.

Hi Marc, Of course, you may have ... I don't track YOU, I track EFB (it's a joke ...) To be serious: Whenever the flight plan has been changed (e.g. due to adding a procedure, or removing a waypoint, or use the "Direct-To" function) EFB creates a new, temporary flight plan which reflects these latest changes. The file is called "efb_current_garmin.pln". This flight plan is then forwarded/loaded to the FSX GPS engine to keep it synchronized with EFB. If the user (or any automatism) saves the current flight (e.g. MyFlight.FLT or similar) then the FLT file contains a section called "[GPS_ENGINE]" which itself contains a line starting with "Filename= ....\EFB_current_garmin.pln". Usually these lines will be removed by FSX itself, but I assume that if the flight has not yet been finished, the lines will remain in this file. Since the flight plan file "EFB_current_garmin.pln" is a file that is always temporarily used by EFB for all flight plan changes, the context of this plan changes continuously. To avoid loading an old flight plan when loading a situation/flight file (*.FLT), EFB scans all these files on exit and on startup and removes these entries, if there are some. Hope this helps.

Hi Felix, the initial climb clearances are not part of the navigation data which is used by EFB to depict the charts.

Thanks Bill for the feedback.

Hi Paco, thanks for sending the scenery.cfg. As far as I can see the Aerosoft scenery is not part of this scenery.cfg. Therefore EFB doesn't read the new files instead of the stock files. I think that something with the installation of LEMD went wrong. Usually after the installation has been done, a new path is added to the scenery file which points the the corresponding BGL files.

Hi Paco, thanks for the screenshots and thanks for sending me the BGL-files. From my point of view it seems that the scenery.cfg is the key to find the cause. Could you please send me the file "scenery.cfg" to support@aivlasoft.com". The file should be located at "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX".

Hi, as per the forum rules, please sign your posts with your real first name. Thanks. Please could you send me the BGL file so I can have a deeper look inside? You may send it to support@aivlasoft.com. To figure out which file it is, open the airport information and double-click into the free area above the "General Info" tab. This will show the file name which is currently used to depict the ground chart. [attachment=0]whichBgl.jpg[/attachment]

Hi Ryan, finally, after a long time of debugging I could track down a tiny but nasty bug. I hope that this will solve all the pending issues around NOAA weather downloads. I will send a new version to the beta testers today.

Hi Bill, I just re-checked the installer but there is no section which deletes any user data files. It must have another cause than the installer. We didn't hear other users who complained about similar things.

Hi, as per the forum rules, please sign your posts with your real first name. Thanks. If you cannot see the folder, did you already read this? viewtopic.php?f=3&t=217 In this post you can find a description on how to process to get that folder visible. Hope this helps.

Hi Jerry, did you verify whether this airport is listed in either the Aerosoft or Navigraph procedures data? If there are no procedures available for the airport, you cannot select from. EFB does not use the procedures data from the BGL files, it only uses procedures from one of the above mentioned navigation data provider.

Hi, version 1.x does not support P3D. Version 2.0 will do, but there is no release date predictable yet.

Bill, Seems to be beyond EFB, but anyway on the EFB's side you should verify the following settings: SYSTEM > Settings > Charts > Traffic:- Show AI / Multiplayer traffic should be ticked. - Online traffic, Show online traffic should also be ticked.

Me too ...

Thanks Jean-Louis for the feedback.

Reinhard, That's by design of FSX and/or Windows. You can hide the toolbar in FSX by pressing the ALT key for a few seconds. Another press on the ALT key brings it back. The taskbar can be set to "auto-hide" (right click on the taskbar, then select Properties). The borders cannot be removed, that's also by design. Indeed, connecting XP and Win7 can be a painful task. It's much easier when you have two computers running Win7. Although it will not help you now, I can say that version 2.0 will be much easier in this regard.

Hi Glenn, thanks for the report about your first flight using EFB and thanks also for the kind words on EFB. Much appreciated! Are you running a wireless network? The connection between the DataProvider and the DisplayUnit is 'observed' while the programs are running. As soon as the DisplayUnit doesn't respond to the DataProvider within a certain amount of time, the DataProvider assumes that the DisplayUnit has been exited. Then the connection will be disconnected. Most often it's due to a low performance network (such as older wireless networks), or because of an overloaded DisplayUnit. That's correct. Adding a runway is only possible by using a newer scenery which reflects the today's runway layout. Please do not add/change any lines within this file. It's created by Aerosoft or Navigraph and the content must be in accordance with several items in other files of the same cycle.

Jean-Louis, as I already mentioned, I don't know the process of creating such an AIRAC cycle. I think that such a question could better be answered by Navigraph.

Jean-Louis, I cannot answer this question since I'm not the creator of these files. You'd better ask Richard Stefan from Navigraph. I meant that if you have a look at the header of any data file from the latest (today's) cycle then you realize that such a header is quite different from the header what you have posted. In other words, the header that you have posted must be from a very old file which is evident when I read the line "// AIRAC Cycle : 0808 (31/JUL/2008 - 27/AUG/2008) - Rev.1"

Hi Glenn, the runways.txt file cannot contain different runway settings for a certain airport. If the entries in the file don't match the requirements of your installation, then feel free to overwrite or even remove them. There are some default entries (e.g. PAFA) which are coming with the installer. So maybe they are already outdated and can be removed/replaced. Maybe this viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1260 will help too.