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Old 16th Jun 2018, 23:29
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rjtjrt
 
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Originally Posted by Squawk7700


That is because it was temporarily offline and displaying the offline image which is a picture of the airport entrance sign.

As the images come from so many different sources that are managed by different providers, we are looking to implement a system at EFB level that checks if the file uploaded is the same as the last one and if so, then it won't be displayed and a message about the image being offline will be shown.

Thanks. Good idea.
That would be good, as this am Yarrawonga showed a missleading picture of good weather with a disclaimer “not to be used for flight planning”, but such disclaimers can be used sometimes on a valid image.
Would be preferable to show no weather image if it is not current.
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