Seattle Avionics charts and plates

[rkorff]

Having an issue with charts and plates not being available or even detected all the time. Did a recent flight to FL after verifying charts and plates were being displayed and available days before flight. After takeoff and through 2 fuel stops, charts and plates were not detected on either USB stick. Tried swapping pilot and copilot sticks with no success. Upon the return trip on Thursday afternoon, all charts and plates were again detected and displayed properly through a fuel stop and engine restart. Have twin 10" classic sky view system with twin adahrs, -261 txpdr, dynon comm, gns430w, and dynon ads-b single channel unit. Had backup of charts and plates on iPad and current approaches on gns430w, so no real danger, but just frustrating. Anybody else having issues like this? Any ideas?

 

[Dynon]

That's odd indeed. My first reaction would be to try a different stick, but you're saying that it happens to both display and always simultaneously? Note that it can take a few moments after boot for the stick and its contents to be recognized, but I think that you're looking throughout the flight when they don't detect. One test to try: Are other contents (say, an FAA database update) visible on the stick when you go to the software update page where you can load files from? IE, does SkyView see other contents on the stick?