Radarspotting

Over the last few days, PlanePlotter has been behaving strangely. My usual view is about 100 x 80 miles that includes Manchester and Birmingham and out to the Wash.

At the moment all I am seeing is my own data - no shared or positionless plots.

If I zoom out to double that area, Manchester lights up with shared plots and there are also some positionless plots nearby.

Zooming back in, and the shared/positionless plots are still there on screen but slowly disappear until I am left with just my own data!

Anyone know what setting I've screwed up?

Ian

Hi Ian .Same thing happens this way.Coincidance if I stop shareing to flightaware it goes back to normal????

Hmm, might give that a whirl. I've checked my PP set up and it passes so sounds like a good idea.

Ian

Ian,

Might be worth cycling through the sharing  options - blue icon with the double arrows - a few times. Also check Options sharing setup to be sure nothing had become unticked.

Tim

Began to wonder why I was seeing shared plots if I expanded my view - doesn't PP know where I am?

I usually use a calibrated airways map as my PP background. If I pressed the Outline key (7th one along on the toolbar) that used to bring up an outline of the selected area - now it wasn't (N of Scotland?).

And pressing the map key should download a map of the selected area - that just gave me random areas - Norway, Spain, France, Europe!).

Checked on chat and this shouldn't happen so clearly my install of PP was broken. So I started to set up a new install of PP.

But since I run PP as a Virtual Machine, I usually have backups. Luckily this morning I found a version from a month ago that worked ok. Copied the registry key for COAA (thanks Tim for that timely info http://radarspotting.com/forum/index.php/topic,3213.msg14611.html#msg14611), imported it into my broken version and voila - fixed. Positionless and MLAT working again.

Now I need to compare the two registry files to see what was different.

Much easier than a reinstall.

So for those of you who have simpler set ups  ;), I suggest taking a backup copy of the COAA registry key might be worthwhile.

Ian

Hi Ian

Always worth trying PP regfix in the main folder  first  ... and also avoid using the ABCD buttons unless  you are 100% sure you know what you are doing.