V3.09 (non-beta) Ready

[RodBearden]

Sorry - yes - I jumped the gun there!

Rod

[AirNav Development]

Corrected (trying one more time): With my new timeout settings I just lost a flight for 5 minutes as it passed from local to network.

New exe at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/31/anrb.exe

[RodBearden]

Downloaded - but it's late now - not much traffic around - I'll see if I can check it out now, but results may have to wait til tomorrow...

Rod

[AirNav Development]

Tks Rod. Will keep waiting for your feedback tomorrow.

[RodBearden]

Just had one - good timing - it reappeared on the network after around 25 seconds, so looking like a big improvement - is there an emoticon for crossed fingers?

Rod

[AirNav Development]

:-) It wascorrected on the previous exe but we made an error on the code. This last one should work (at least we tested it here)...it is unbelievable the complexity of the software...most users tend to think that it is just a software with a grid and a map but after 2.5 years we are still improving it. And it wil continue like that.

[RodBearden]

My only programming experience was trying to write Excel macros, and that's bad enough! But I've worked with developers and programmers for a LONG time and I know the problems.

Anyway, just had another flight that reappeared on the network 6 seconds after hardware timeout, so I reckon this version has got it right! Well done, chaps!

Bed now...

Rod

[AirNav Development]

Tks Rod. Now to all the other beta testers: pls give your best today and try to report any problems. We are here ready to correct them.

[GlynH]

Well in my short period of testing the new .exe it looks OK here.

Those Aviation & General Signs issues seem to have been cured.

My solitary menu issue with the busy pointer seems to have got worse leading me to think it is related to the FTP upload?

When I am in the menus and the FTP Upload (and possibly some other stuff as DB writes etc.) whatever thread is being used to complate these tasks is impacting upon my pointer turning it into the busy/sleepy hourglass pointer that will not go away until I come away from the menus.

I know it sounds like all I do with ANRB is play with the menus all day but it is really disconcerting when you are in the middle of a task and the nice arrow turns into the busy pointer and certainly can't be right.

I have never seen this behaviour on any other program and I use hundreds...

This issue was as good as sorted in previous builds but made its way back in some time ago...:-(

To give it a fighting chance when I install a new full version I start with a new database so that i sonly a fraction of its usual size...

Off to work now so won't get much time to play...

Thanks & regards,
-=Glyn=-

[pjm]

Now to all the other beta testers: pls give your best today and try to report any problems. We are here ready to correct them.

Ok, I've installed the new version and testing now.

Also I am sharing the data.

AirNav Dev - can you tell me, if invalid positions are received locally and data is being shared, would you see the invalid location data at the server? If so what do you do with it?

fwiw these are the area's I'm interested in

[pjm]

Well, after 1 quick test, I don't believe it is fixed either.

I wasn't logging port 30003, however I just tracked QFA729 and it appeared in the text interface the whole time, but disappeared from the radar screen where the purple arrow shows in the screenshot below (it was in the radarscreen where the green arrow is).

[pjm]

I've captured a video and telnet session of port 30003 for another example (with the latest ANRB).

http://www.petermcgrath.info/AirNav/blackhole.zip

The aircraft in question is mode-s 7C810C and is is highlighted in both interface and the radar screen (when it is visible on the radar screen)

You can see it in the text interface the entire time of the video.

As the video starts you can see the aircraft approaching the blackhole.

at approx:
18:10 the aircraft stops moving across the radar screen (enters the black hole)
18:16 disappears on the radar screen (GPS parameters disappear)
18:19 aircraft leaves the black hole and re-appears on the radar screen.

Throughout the entire session all parameters (Altitude, GS, heading, vrate etc) are being updated except GPS location, which stops being updated in the "blackhole"

[tarbat]

My solitary menu issue with the busy pointer seems to have got worse leading me to think it is related to the FTP upload?

I also get a busy pointer during FTP upload.  I don't get it at any other time.  I suspect it's caused by the ftp server being slow to respond.  It doesn't give me a problem though, I've always accepted it, in the same way that programs like Excel give a busy pointer when saving a file, for example.

EDIT: I also get a busy pointer on QNH lookup and network download.  I've always accepted that as normal.

[tarbat]

I'm still seeing very long range spikes on the polar chart.  These appear to be created by NETWORK aircraft.  See these far to the south of my location, in an area where I normally don't get this range.



EDIT:  It looks like these spikes only get created when the aircraft is flying on a radial away from my home location.

[tarbat]

Other than the polar chart spikes, everything else seems fine on this new version.