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Old 7th Apr 2011, 05:03
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The airspace definitions on the Aware device are updated on the AIRAC cycle but the underlying charts are not - just like your paper chart isn't. You need to buy a new digital chart for the device once a year, again just like your paper chart.

So for example this autumn when Lyneham CTR and CTA are disestablished, the Aware and all the other devices using raster maps will still show the airspace on the screen until the following March. They will of course not alert you any more though.

By contrast, that airspace will disappear from the display completely on vector based devices such as SkyDemon.
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