Briefing Charts from Flightaware

[CPC900]

Any idea why the weather charts are seemingly a few days old when you look at the weather brief for a flight?!  Is there a setting to get the latest charts in a config somewhere?

[Nabeel]

Your browser could be caching the image

[simpilot]

It has been happening for a while now - Flightaware is storing the images using a url with a timestamp now ie

what used to be

http://flightaware.com/resources/wx/us_depiction.gif (the link used in the tpl file)

would need to be this ->

http://vox.flightaware.com/resources/wx/us_depiction.gif?1264693268

1264693268 = Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:41:08 UTC

to get the current chart as I write this post.

You can use the unix timestamp function to add it to the end of the url - also notice the change from www to vox.

I started using maps from weather underground anyway - I like them better 

http://www.wunderground.com/Aviation_Maps/

and there are other sources out there as well. 

[Nabeel]

Those sneaky guys. I'll check out the other maps you posted

[piper338]

Those sneaky guys. I'll check out the other maps you posted

Sorry but was this ever fixed?

[Nabeel]

Nope, never got the chance. But this is in the template, so you can change it easily yourself.

[piper338]

Nope, never got the chance. But this is in the template, so you can change it easily yourself.

I've been trying but I think the reason I am having issues is I think Flightaware is just using NOAA info from http://aviationweather.gov now...

but an example..

http://vox.flightaware.com/resources/wx/mets_ALL.gif?<?php echo time();?>

That seems to work is that the correct way?

[Nabeel]

I've been trying but I think the reason I am having issues is I think Flightaware is just using NOAA info from http://aviationweather.gov now...

but an example..

http://vox.flightaware.com/resources/wx/mets_ALL.gif?<?php echo time();?>

That seems to work is that the correct way?

Yeah, that's right. I'll check out that .gov site