Hi, I have the same issue. It worked fine until version 1.1.0.0. Since then, I have that problem.

Any way to circumvent it?

There are two minor bugs in the tool:

1. Airline "Y4" comes up as "Eagle Aviation" in Mexico. Indeed, African Eagle in Kenya does have the IATA code Y4, but the same code is used in Mexico by Volaris. Maybe there is a way to differentiate between the two?
2. Same problem with code "P2", which is used by UTair of Russia, AirKenya and Aero Condor of Peru. However, at least the Kenyan flights show up as "UTair"
3. Not really a bug, but more of an ommission: Iran Air and Kenyan are not included

Other than that, let me say again how much I love this tool. It's very convenient for travel planning and a source of information and inspiration for aviation fans.

Bravo!^^

This is very strange, maybe your display driver is refusing to display large bitmaps.
Could you please download and try this versison? It should display two smaller map rectangles (and the map may be distorted), but the question is, does the map appear at all?

Most route data comes arranged by airline code, so if several airlines share the same code, you will likely get only one of them (or the other ones will appear with a 3-letter ICAO code). I'll check airline names used (they are all listed in the file airlines.dat). I think UTair now has "UT" as code.

These should be present in the next update.

I posted the report of the original problem. Here is what I see with the test version:
Regular window
the map is a four rectangle checkerboard, I can see all the airports in green with their shadows but the top-left and bottom-right rectangles are white, the top-right and bottom-left rectangles display the sea and land correctly
Maximized window
after maximizing the bottom-left rectangle became white like the top-left and bottom-right one, the top-right rectangle displays just fine, or in other words, three quarters of the screen are white showing only airport names, the top-right quarter displays correctly

Thanks again for this awesome tool!

Thanks, very interesting!

Could you please try this version out?

I added a "bottom left offset" setting to Options, it will shrink the map by the specified amount of pixels. Try setting it to 100 and verify that the (reduced) map appears fine when the window is maximized. If it does, please try finding the lowest "bottom left offset" value that still allows the map to display correctly when maximized.

Note that this setting is not kept in the registry and has to be made every time after starting the program.

Just another bump for this fantastic program.

cockpitvisit,

You're going to like this. The map always displays correctly if the bottom-left offset is anything other than zero, yes even when the offset is 1. What's more, it doesn't matter how large the maximized window is. Whether or not I have the Taskbar auto-hide or Vista Sidebar enabled (both of which affect the maximized window size) the app always goes white maximized (with 0 offset) and always displays correctly when the offset is 1.

Of course, I'm a software engineer so nothing surprises me any more (although I don't do Win32 API work so I can't help you here).

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Caesar

Great program. Very useful!!

This is good. I'll add a persistent option for this one-pixel offest in the next update. For now, anyone affected by the problem should download the test version, go into Options and set the bottom left offset to 1.

Are you going to update the database soon?

Wonderful piece of work. Thanks a lot. And even my local airline UU is featured.

This is a great tool, thanks! I will use this, for both entertainment and travel planning.

Not to be too demanding, but a few great enhancements would be:

-- Set up an automatic download from OAG (I imagine that you do this anyway) to keep it current. Of course, that would require licenses and fees (I shudder to wonder whether your tool violates any license currently. . . I won't tell anyone. ;) )

-- Make a zoom feature. This may be difficult technically; I don't know. But it would be helpful for some of the small ones, e.g., the amazing domestic route maps of Chinese airlines. (Kind of like the Northwest Airlines magazine, which shows the route maps of all SkyTeam airlines. It's beautiful, but indecipherable, especially China Southern.)

-- Add a feature to display all non-stop flights on all airlines from a selected airport. This should be a snap to do, and would be very valuable for travel planning.

I am not suggesting that there are shortcomings in your tool; just some ideas for the next version. Thanks again!

I hope so.

I am not using OAG data (and am not an OAG subscriber). The data is combined from several timetables publicly available on the Internet. Including any kind of automatic download into the tool is not possible because it might overload some servers if many people do it at the same time. Including an ability to get data from a local OAG installation is not possible because it would violate some laws (OAG timetables are no doubt encrypted, and making a tool to circumvent that protection is illegal in many countries - even when the user has a valid OAG license and no intention to distribute the data).

You can zoom either using the mouse wheel, or plus and minus keys on the keyboard.

If you click on an airport in the map, all direct flights originating from it will be shown in yellow. If you select an airline in the toolbar, only flights of that airline will be shown.

Runs perfectly in Ubuntu with Wine. Thanks.

Wonderful, thanks.