Airnav support - I am an experienced user and i am trying to establish exactly how does the search of the airliners.net photo database work. Apologies that this is a long post. I have two queries
1) The first is that I have been trying to update many photos where the airliners have changed owner/livery, like the easyjet G-TT** airbuses or the ex FCA aircraft now in TCX livery. I only display one photo and don't use the option to have two.
A good example is G-TTIF, there are now 3 pics of it in Easyjet livery in Airliners.
I have tried the following and each time when I next pick it up, it searches the airliners site and finds an old Feb 2008 picture in BA livery which also updates the airline field to GB Airways/BA.
1st attempt - I have deleted the thumbnail from the photo file on the C: drive. Then I deleted all data in AC, PT, LK, PT2 and LK2 for that record. No joy.
Next time I deleted the thumbnail and the whole record. No joy
Next I manually copied a thumbnail of the easyjet picture on airliners onto my C: drive (renaming the file to the registration). This gave me the correct picture but without the extra details next to the picture like airline and construction number.
How do I get the airliners.net photo search to give me a later picture than the one I originally downloaded, which shows the latest owner/colourscheme.
2) Often newly delivered aircraft are populated into Navdata. As they are newly delivered there is obviously no pictures on airliners and you get the "photo not available" message. No problem with that. However Navdata then puts pink squares in PT, LK, PT2 and LK2 . This means that everytime I pick up these aircraft it doesn't go looking at airliners.net.
However after a short while or so, Airliners.net will start getting photos of these newly delivered aircraft, but because the pink squares never go away in Navdata, Radarbox will never search for them. The only way that I can delete the pink squares and get Radarbox to search for the newly available pic is to click 'edit cell' on each square, then input a space and then delete that space, leaving the field blank. This is the only way I have found to turn the field from pink to white so that it searches airliners.net for available pics.
Is there any way in the next issue that you can get pink fields in navdata to timeout after a week, in order that it does a search of the databases again to see if the info is now available.
