I don't use my SkyRadar often (have a 700 and am using an Autopilot so normally have that connected to USB). However I decided to play with it the other day so unplugged the Autopilot and plugged the SkyRadar back in.. And now on to the problem..
Any ideas on how on earth to get my 700 to reliably reflect the correct date? These days it's fixated on 2009. The day (Thursday) and time are correct but the year just doesn't fix itself even once the GPS has a fix and knows the real date.
The problem with Wx is that this makes 'old' weather new again. That is even reports that are a couple of days or years old (in reality) , if in memory (which they seem to be) are calculated as many negative days (e.g. --76868356) old. That is to say 'as if they are future dated' and therefore are not considered expired and appear on the weather mode.
It's very confusing (actually impossible) when looking at the Wx to be able to know what is actually recent and what might be ancient. I see this negatively aged weather even before the ADSB has actually picked anything up (e.g. at start up on the ground) and it continutes in the air when receiving weather (as verfiied by Connected Devices dialog box). Everthing new or old is calculated as negative aged, becomes visibly and really difficult to distinguish from old junk.
At time with judicious playing of start up, let it aquire, unplug power, reboot and repeat a few times I can sometimes get an accurate date (suddenly I have weather that's actually reported as 5 minutes old) but it takes quite a while to to 2,3 or 4 reboots to get it to work.
Is there a fix - O.S. or otherwise. (iFly 700). Help!. In the mean time I'm plugging the Autpilot back in instead.
Thanks,
Alasdair