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New Chart Data

5/21/2018 3:39 PM

Ray Phillips

Joined: 9/28/2013

Posts: 104

New Chart Data Modified By Ray Phillips on 5/21/2018 4:23:53 PM

I have several charts and instrument procedures that will expire in 2 days. Updates from iFlY are currently not available. When will this be corrected?

5/21/2018 7:57 PM

Cobra

Joined: 4/20/2011

Posts: 2602

Re: New Chart Data

Walter posted this in a beta forum discussion recently: "Data expires every 28 days, always on Thursdays. Our goal is to have the new data in production Monday the week of expiration (which we almost always hit). This gives users 3-4 days to get updated."

5/21/2018 8:28 PM

Ray Phillips

Joined: 9/28/2013

Posts: 104

Re: New Chart Data

Cobra wrote:

Walter posted this in a beta forum discussion recently: "Data expires every 28 days, always on Thursdays. Our goal is to have the new data in production Monday the week of expiration (which we almost always hit). This gives users 3-4 days to get updated."

Yes, I am familiar with the practice. Today is Monday, just a few days to go.......

5/21/2018 9:38 PM

JohnnyBlackCT

Joined: 12/31/2017

Posts: 161

Re: New Chart Data

I always update data the night before each flight.

5/23/2018 10:33 AM

Mark Kolber

Joined: 9/30/2014

Posts: 224

Re: New Chart Data

Since updates were brought up...

I'm a multiple EFB user. Some is for instructional purposes; others a mater of personal likes (and that I'm an EFB geek). At this point, iFly (both iOS and Android) is among the slowest in applying updates. I don't mean timeliness; I mean the speed of the process. (FlyQ is amazingly fast - it often surprises me). There are a few things I've seen some of them do which I think helps.

One is to update only charts which have changed. Less to update = increased speed.

Another is to permit updates early, retaining two sets of data, the older of which auto-deletes on the transition date - that allows me to update when the data is available but still fly on current information both before and after the transition date.

If iFly does either of these, I'm ignorant about it. If it doesn't, any chance of that being in the queue?

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