Duff info in database.

[viking9]

I'm finding the database a pain lately. This morning I have a German C-160 3F9929 reported correctely in A/C Type and Reg but under AC Name as a Mirage IIIC and Airline as France - Air Force. Also had a French E3CF - 3B77DA shown as a Mirage 2000 and Airline shown as Greek Air Force.

Tom

[abrad41]

Tom

You should take a look in NavData.db3 database, you will be suprised at the things that are wrong in there, from lots of nulls to lots without any details at all and I do beleave this is where mylog looks to get its information from.

This is within the database that was supplied with RB (new one supplied means never been used, never had any updates).

I am now starting to go through the whole database to get it upto date (getting my information from Airframes site), Might take a couple of months to do this, but well worth it I think.

Cheers

Andy

[viking9]

Andy,

What are you using to edit NavData.db3?

Tom

[abrad41]

Hi Tom

I use SQLite Maestro, you can get a free months trial from there site if you are interested, then I think I paid about £65 for a full copy.

It took me a while to work out how to do certain things, but there is a lot more to the program, that I do not know about.

I am lucky, that I saved a copy of NavData.db3 database at the start when I first installed RB, so now I can run RB and work on the original file, then when I have finished updating it, I can just replace the one I am using now.

Cheers

Andy

[viking9]

Thanks, Andy.

Tom

[abrad41]

Hi Tom

Did you get a chance to look through the database?  I have started ploughing my way through it and it is worst than I first thought.  There is c/n numbers where company's txt should be and company txt where c/n numbers should be, there must be thousands of Null entries/untitled entries and ones with no aircraft entries at all.

Well I must plough on mate.

Cheers

Andy

[tarbat]

Or do what I did a while ago, and delete ALL aircraft from the Navdata Aircraft table.  At least then you've only got to correct aircraft flying in your area.  Remember that the majority (90%) of aircraft in the Navdata Aircraft table will never be seen in your area.

[abrad41]

Sounds a good idea tarbat.

Is there a easy way of doing this - like multipil deletion.  I think I tried with a completey emty database and RB would not show any aircaft on the screen.

Tell me more mate, I would be very interested, I would rather fill in all the missing details myself from airframes and rely on gas and the populater function

Cheers

Andy

[tarbat]

Andy, I use SQLite Maestro for all my database maintenance.  Just right click on the Aircraft table, and select "Empty Table".  It generates the following SQL - "DELETE FROM aircraft"

[abrad41]

thanks tarbat

That worked fine, as you proberly now I use SQL Maestro as well, but I am not as clever as you.  Will it run in RB being emty

Andy

[tarbat]

I think so.  Although I used SBS-Populate to populate an empty SBS-1 Basestation database will the 8000 aircraft in MyLog, and imported that into the table.  That way I guaranteed to get the latest data from GAS.  See http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=1489.msg11716#msg11716 for details.

[abrad41]

That seemed to have worked mate.

Will leave it running a while then take a look at it in SQL

Thanks Mate

Andy