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AirNav Development:
Hi All

We are finishing the development of Patch 1.
Almost all the reported problems are corrected now.

Many users have complained about the difficulty in keeping aircraft databases updated.
We have contacted a few sites but we have not yet come to a solution.

What are your ideas here? As users what would you prefer to have? We could sign an agreement with a company that would provide us accurate real-time mode-s information for all the world aircraft. To retrieve this information you need to be connected to the internet.
Is this what users are looking for?

Any feedback appreciated.

Allocator:
AirNav,

The guys that provide the Mode S database for the excellent SBS Populate for the SBS-1 are The Gatwick Aviation Society:

http://www.gatwickaviationsociety.org.uk

It is also possible to use their (free) SBS Popultate program to look up individual codes, or to use their on-line database form to look up aircraft.

I think that it would be well worth contacting the GAS and making an arrangement with them.

flightchecker:
Good idea, Allocator,
wish I had posted before you :-(

Anyway: "that's it"

Karl

Roadrunner:
I agree with the others. The GAS programme has it all - live updating (if you want) ability to update in your own time (if you want) and not having it connected does not affect data capture - by that I mean any internet downtime does not stop the sytem working. I regularly use it post outages to look for missing data etc.

Another area for the data - an EASY way to download to Access/Excel or others, that may also allow update of data from other systems. EG I have 10,600 aicraft logged in SBS1 and only 2000 in RB, to be able to use the data I have alrerady obtained for both systems would be great

AirNav Development:
What you think about airframes.org ?

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