Aircraft displaying incorrect info?

[AirNav Support]

John,

If you want your box tested you can send it back to us. If you want details please contact us directly from the methods in our signature.

Regarding the routes issues, we had a few testers go through this through the beta. We may work with you in seeing whether we can narrow it down. There is no need to post examples on the forum at the moment. Development will contact you.

[John Racars]

Support and All,

Thank you verry much for all the help and advise given to me in this subject until sofar!

Support, I like specialy to thank you for you offer to send my box back to you for testing.
I consider or I use this given possibility.

Development did contact me in the meantime.

Thank you again!

[DazrahT]

I've noticed some aircraft are occasionally showing incorrect origin-destination information.

I can't agree with you more Mr T, that this seems to be a big problem.

I've spent hours in the last day just typing in route data where is is missing or incorrect. Think at the last count it's about 100 flights, and that's only stuff flying over the Midlands (UK).

Question for AirNAV Support
If a user inputs data into their routes database, does this get uploaded to other users via the AirNAV network, or is the local database just that, "local"?

[AirNav Support]

It is local.

[DazrahT]

Right, so it's local.

My next question then is if a user has input data manually, does this at any point get overwritten by data received (potentially incorrect) from AirNAV?

[AirNav Support]

There is date time stamp in database when you enter the route. If the time on that row is 6 months or greater in the past and we have information on that route it will overwrite it.

[DazrahT]

Thanks AirNAV for explaining how and when data gets updated, but obviously then if my data is correct, but your data after the 6 months is up is still incorrect, then your data overwrites mine.

Perhaps some sort of separate part of the site should be implemented for users to input data directly into your database? (obviously after the data has been verified)

[DazrahT]

Second day of route amending or adding!

Think I've worn www.libhomeradar.org out!

[tarbat]

Thanks AirNAV for explaining how and when data gets updated, but obviously then if my data is correct, but your data after the 6 months is up is still incorrect, then your data overwrites mine.

You can prevent this by turning off route auto-populate in preferences.  You'd then need to maintain your own routes database completely.