Mandatory update

[Bobsk8]

Just wanted to do a quick flight tonight, now a mandatory update with FS Base generic air ports downloading at .83 Mbits per second. 😡

[Georgleboui]

It's the AIRAC update.

[Bobsk8]

10 minutes ago, Georgleboui said:

It's the AIRAC update.

Well while it was downloading it clearly stated that it was Generic airports. 

[carlanthony24]

Clearly states online it was an airac update. 

 

[Tuskin38]

11 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Well while it was downloading it clearly stated that it was Generic airports. 

because it updates the airport Nav data

[pete_auau]

took around 2 minutes  to do the update base

[fppilot]

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

Well while it was downloading it clearly stated that it was Generic airports. 

 

48 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

because it updates the airport Nav data

I clearly saw both during the update.

Edited February 21 by fppilot

[MarcG]

Update was quick for me last night, which was a pleasant relief as I was in the middle of diagnosing some stuttering issues.

[fluffyflops]

every airac we get the same topics....

[fluffyflops]

6 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Just wanted to do a quick flight tonight, now a mandatory update with FS Base generic air ports downloading at .83 Mbits per second. 😡

to save the same topic every month here you go. 

expect another one on 20th march,

 

 

https://www.nm.eurocontrol.int/RAD/common/airac_dates.html

 

 

[Zangoose]

You should be used to this by now - It happens monthly and it's always the same reason.

[sloppysmusic]

Would be polite if when you started up a message said the new airac was available would you like to install now before flying or after when quitting the sim. Seeing as its just data no code it could even be run with an external updater app without the sim running. You could even subscribe to notifications when it was ready to install and or installed. 

If you've only got a small amount of time before work or dinner to sim it would be particularly annoying. 

Ah who am I kidding? A small inconvience really. 

[Christopher Low]

The update downloaded and installed quickly for me last night. It was spooling up the download speed right through the process, and hit the stratospheric heights of 62Mbps when it finished. It will be interesting to see my download speeds next month when we upgrade to a new 500Mbps fibre connection.

Edited February 21 by Christopher Low

[Ron Attwood]

Oh goody, I thought, when I saw this update. At last they've sorted out the multiplayer model matching. 😄 Then I read the log. Great if you like tubes. 🙄

[Reader]

5 hours ago, sloppysmusic said:

Ah who am I kidding? 

As far as I can tell, the whole idea of mandatory updates is to ensure that all
mainstream users are using the same set of files.
It's been bad enough with thousands of posts of "I can't make this work",
offset by as many thousands of posts saying "it's been faultless from the start" 
and everything in between, without allowing users to choose between randomly
selected installed versions, even "airac" updates.