FYG001 Posted March 25, 2022 Report Share Posted March 25, 2022 After some (self induced) errors yesterday, I think it might be useful to publish a few thoughts on the AIRAC cycle. As is known aviation data is published in cycles of 28 days, always starting on a Thursday, I believe 0900UTC. Yesterday 24 March was such a date when cycle 2203 came into force. download your data file with the Navigraph FMS Data Manager Startup the CL650, and IMPORTANT - tick the box to 'Use real world date and time' If you don't you'll mess like me, having a date in the PAST cycle : unable to download the Simbrief FPL, STATUS of the database staying yellow Don't try to change the date in the FMS STATUS page, it led to a CTD with me In the STATUS page cycle the OLD for the NEW database And you are good to go These are the next cycles for 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastuasi Posted March 25, 2022 Report Share Posted March 25, 2022 Odd cause I never use real date and time, updated my navdata last night, just checked and yep, sim date says 2018, no crash and it doesn't error out in fms, sees the update just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FYG001 Posted March 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2022 Hi Rastuasi, CTD happened after I tried to verwrite the data in the STATUS field, not by not having teh correct database. But what defintely did not work for me was RECALLING the Simbrief Flightplan with a sim date that was outside of the Navdatabase date field . When I changed the sim date to fall within the Navdatabase period , I was able to recall again. Odd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pils Posted March 25, 2022 Report Share Posted March 25, 2022 1 hour ago, FYG001 said: Hi Rastuasi, CTD happened after I tried to verwrite the data in the STATUS field, not by not having teh correct database. But what defintely did not work for me was RECALLING the Simbrief Flightplan with a sim date that was outside of the Navdatabase date field . When I changed the sim date to fall within the Navdatabase period , I was able to recall again. Odd? The CTD was reported to the CTD forum I assume? I believe the flight plan uplink checks the nav data cycle used in Simbrief against what’s loaded in the sim to ensure referential integrity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FYG001 Posted March 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2022 Hi Pils, sorry no, I did not report the CTD in the CTD forum, it was such a stupid move to try to overwrite the date that I did not deem it right to report ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pils Posted March 26, 2022 Report Share Posted March 26, 2022 1 hour ago, FYG001 said: Hi Pils, sorry no, I did not report the CTD in the CTD forum, it was such a stupid move to try to overwrite the date that I did not deem it right to report ;-) If you don’t mind reproducing it then please do. Any crash is one we want to hear about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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