PMDG/AIRAC Navadata Loading in FS9

[Guest Rake7575]

Back to FS9 after a couple months with FSX (no FSX compatible squawkbox--and no PMDG (the very BEST). For airline flying, can't beat FS9 with PMDG and Squawkbox3.1.Since coming back it deems that PMDG/AIRAC (navdata)loading takes longer to load than I've seen before on the FS9 menu screen (the PMDG moving slider box loading navdata). As I recall, initial load up times were pretty fast--is this a result of the new navdata--over 100000 fixes loading up etc? Is there a way to speed it up?Thanks in advance.RakeAMD FX-60Nvidia 7950 GX2 (1GB) video4GB ultra low latency DDR RAMRaptor 150GB HDDell 24" wide

[rsrandazzo 6,353]

Rake-You know- I still don't have a copy of the new navdata format- i'll get in touch with Richard so that we can test with the same data set you have and let you know.One thing i do recommend is to ensure that you are aggressively defragging the drive. (The basic windows defragger is not enough...) I use O&O and defrag under the /NAME method- and it speeds things up wonderfully for me...I'll let you know what we find out.

[dave_paige 11]

I've been using the new navdata for a while now and the load times, if anything, are shorter not longer.

[Guest NAVData]

Hi,as Dave said, it should be shorter and for me it looks like so. The AIRAC file size of the new EAG source is a little bit smaller as with the old DAFIF source. The reason is, that in the old DAFIF source, there were many outdated fixes ...Richard