Loading future data bases
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Category: Avidyne General
Forum Name: IFD 5 Series & IFD 4 Series Touch Screen GPS/NAV/COM
Forum Description: Topics on Avidyne's IFD 5 Series and IFD 4 Series Touch Screen GPS/NAV/COM
URL: http://forums.avidyne.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2573
Printed Date: 15 May 2024 at 12:43am
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Topic: Loading future data bases
Posted By: swyloge
Subject: Loading future data bases
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 12:39pm
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Is it possible to load future NavData and Obstacles data bases into the IFDs? If so, then how do I install them when they become effective? ------------- Swyloge |
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Posted By: paulr
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 2:38pm
| You can only have 1 set of databases installed at a time. If you install databases before their effective date, they'll overwrite the active set. Best you can do is to preload the databases onto a USB stick before the effective date, then install them when you need them. |
Posted By: yce
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2023 at 9:55am
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If a future dated database is installed, does it become active upon install or is that data not available until the "go-live" date? My understanding is that nav data is good "upon receipt" so that data should be good. This is one thing I miss from my CNX-80- the ability to load more than one database and have it automatically switch to the newer one when necessary.
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Posted By: MysticCobra
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2023 at 12:12am
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yce wrote:Posted By: yce
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2023 at 6:28am
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actually- it doesn’t. The database is present on the unit. Does the software, seeing data tagged with a future date, use that data? If nav data is good upon receipt (which is what I’ve always heard) then the future date warning is just an annoyance.
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Posted By: paulr
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2023 at 7:10am
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The answer was implied but I will make it explicit. No, the future database is not valid and cannot be legally used before its issue date.
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Posted By: MysticCobra
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2023 at 8:13am
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The only question in your post was: "If a future dated database is installed, does it become active upon install or is that data not available until the "go-live" date? " The answer to that question was already explicitly stated: "You can only have 1 set of databases installed at a time. If you install databases before their effective date, they'll overwrite the active set." So, to make it expliciter, the answer to your question is, "It becomes active upon install."
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Posted By: chflyer
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2023 at 8:26am
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I can imagine how difficult two database support would be to implement if the AviOS wasn't designed that way from the start. Just a bit of a shame that Avidyne didn't take on that element of the 20 year old gns480/cnx80 when they decided to design a new FMS-type gps/nav/com.
------------- Vince |