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   Lately, my IFD 100 does not receive weather (Metars, TAFs, etc) or the color coded weather symbols on the chart.  The IFD 540 it communicates with does receive all the weather fine.  Everything else is fine including flight plan entering and frequencies.  Any ideas?

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teeth6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 10 Mar 2014 Status: Offline Points: 741	Post Options Post Reply Quote teeth6 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Weather Posted: 18 Feb 2018 at 2:21pm
	Lately, my IFD 100 does not receive weather (Metars, TAFs, etc) or the color coded weather symbols on the chart. The IFD 540 it communicates with does receive all the weather fine. Everything else is fine including flight plan entering and frequencies. Any ideas?

AviSteve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Feb 2018 Location: Melbourne, FL Status: Offline Points: 2249	Post Options Post Reply Quote AviSteve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 2018 at 9:54am
	I can pass this along to tech support. What is your weather source? Also, what version of IFD software and IFD-100 software are you running?
	Steve Lindsley Avidyne Engineering

teeth6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 10 Mar 2014 Status: Offline Points: 741	Post Options Post Reply Quote teeth6 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 2018 at 10:04am
	Thanks Steve. I use ADS-B for the weather source via the MLB 100 (Skytrax). The IFD software is the latest (10.2 I believe) and the IFD 100 software is 10.2.0. It used to work fine but stopped a couple of months ago. I did make a change to my Jepp subscription 2 months ago and Avidyne suggested I reinstall the app to get the charts to show. I can't be sure but that may be when this started.

teeth6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 10 Mar 2014 Status: Offline Points: 741	Post Options Post Reply Quote teeth6 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Feb 2018 at 7:01am
	Steve, I flew again yesterday and for some strange reason, the weather started showing on the IFD100 again. It was not there for the previous 6 flights and I didn't change anything but it was back. I'll continue to monitor and let you know.

AviSteve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Feb 2018 Location: Melbourne, FL Status: Offline Points: 2249	Post Options Post Reply Quote AviSteve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Feb 2018 at 9:17am
	Well I'm glad it's working again. We have experienced a problem where every once in a while a data packet is lost somewhere in the transmission chain to the IFD100, and when that happens the IFD100 takes a lot of time trying to recover the data stream. We have made some improvements in that area in release 10.2.1. Hopefully your system will continue to work well until that is available (which I'm expecting to be pretty soon).
	Steve Lindsley Avidyne Engineering

teeth6 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 10 Mar 2014 Status: Offline Points: 741	Post Options Post Reply Quote teeth6 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Feb 2018 at 9:44pm
	Cool, Do you happen to know if the correction for the wrong ETA is being fixed in 10.2.1?

AviSteve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Feb 2018 Location: Melbourne, FL Status: Offline Points: 2249	Post Options Post Reply Quote AviSteve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 Feb 2018 at 8:51am
	The only ETA related item that I know of that was fixed in 10.2.1 was an issue where the time was partially overwritten by the AM/PM suffix when being displayed in local time in a datablock. If you can be more specific about the problem, I can check into it further.
	Steve Lindsley Avidyne Engineering