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HomeHomeDiscussionsDiscussionsiFly Owners Q&AiFly Owners Q&ACommunications frequencies missing on an airport? What gives?Communications frequencies missing on an airport? What gives?
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10/2/2012 1:01 PM
 

Had a flight plan in Ifly 720 that ended at OR96. From the flight plan screen tapped on the OR96 and, as usual up popped the airport info screen for OR96. I have all updates as far as I can tell.

It had the usual info EXCEPT It didn't show anything for the usual Communications line. In fact, if I remember right, the Communications line wasn't even there.

The only frequency there happens to be a Unicom per AirNav and other sources and my memory is 123.30 . ( And it's not a recent change. Been 123.30 for a long time.)

Any reason it didn't show up there?

I happened to be sure that that airport did have a multicom but didn't have it memorized in my head or in my radio. Fortunately I wasn't flying in there that particular day.

But it's a bit disconcernting if I expect to pull up the CTAF for an unfamiliar airport while flying and it ain't there... and to worry that if there's a next-time it could be somewhere where I really need to pull up the communications frequencies pronto... with no time to be trying to unfold the paper sectional and put on my reading glasses and bury my nose and attention in it to dig out the frequencies.

Alex

 
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10/3/2012 3:13 PM
 

Alex, I dug and found the reason. That data is burried as a REMARK in the FAA database, and the remark is pegged to a non-existant runway (02/20), so it's being skipped. I'll modify the code to ensure this doesn't happen. Unless we have other reports of this, I don't see doing an emergency fix so this will be in our Spring release.

Thanks,
Walter


Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot
 
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