Couple of Radar Box Questions...

[Johnn]

Hi There,
I was just wondering, do I still get a warranty for the airnav radar box if I buy from www.flightstore.co.uk for £349 :), Is flightstore a good company?

By using the network, can I see all of the traffic right around the world? but with a 5 min delay of coarse.

Thank You
Johnn

[CoastGuardJon]

Hi John, Yes, yes and a conditional yes - you'll only see traffic where there is an active RadarBox, where there ain't, you won't!

I've had books off Flightstore over the years and always found them OK.   They currently offer last year's Pooley's Flight Guide at a very reasonable £4.99, a vast reduction on full price.

[mike L]

Hi
 I got my Airnav radar box from flightstore as I opened the e-mail from them
to tell me it was on the way the post man rang the door bell
and i have used them for Icom bits

all the best mike

[Johnn]

Edit:
Is there any disadvantage of installing a RB on 2 pcs? e.g. home pc and laptop for mobile use?.

Do you sometimes keep your radar-box on 24/7 ?

Thanks again
John

[colinhall]

Morning, Question for Allocator, Im off to Heathrow on Saturday for the day,whats the best settings for ANRB so I can catch all the aircraft on the ground and the one,s that are either landing or tahing off on the other side off the airport than me.  I will be at the spotting area near the Rennaisance Hotel.thanks,
Colin.

[Allocator]

Morning, Question for Allocator, Im off to Heathrow on Saturday for the day,whats the best settings for ANRB so I can catch all the aircraft on the ground and the one,s that are either landing or tahing off on the other side off the airport than me.  I will be at the spotting area near the Rennaisance Hotel.thanks,
Colin.

Colin,

There is a good video tutorial on the AitNav website here:

http://www.airnavsystems.com/RadarBox/Video/index.html

I haven't been close enough to see aircraft on the ground at Heathrow - I'm about 5 miles away so I'm seeing the aircraft down to short finals.  I can see aircraft on the ground via the Network though.

I suggest that you use the altitude filter in the "Advanced" menu to only watch aircraft between 0 and 15000 feet otherwise your screen will be just too cluttered.  You could also set up your favorite operators in Fleet Watch and that will allow you to tick the "Show only fleet watch aircraft on map".  Get the high detail outline file for Heathrow and put this in your Outlines folder so that you can see the airport in detail.

Hope this gives you a few ideas :-)

[Allocator]

Edit:
Is there any disadvantage of installing a RB on 2 pcs? e.g. home pc and laptop for mobile use?.

Do you sometimes keep your radar-box on 24/7 ?

Thanks again
John

You can install RB on as many PC's as you like, as it will only show live/Network aircraft when the hardware receiver is connected by USB.  However, you can replay recorded files without having the hardware connected - good for demonstrations when you can't set up the antenna.

You will end up with different Navdata and MyLog databases on each PC. You can  copy these back and forward on a USB stick depending on how serious you are about records.  I would always suggest that you copy the NavData.db3 from the main PC to the secondary PC (laptop?) so that you have access to the most complete source database when away from the Internet.