ACARS

[MrT]

Anyone know how I can download ACARS to trial a copy without giving my credit card details?

It seems if you want to download a demo, you have to supply cc payment details.

I'm not comfortable with that.

Cheers,
Paul.

[FlightChaser]

MrT I agree that does suck from Airnav! Why should you give Credit Card details to get a trial of the software! I paid for Acars 2.1 and AirNav Suite many years ago. I sometimes boot them up now. They have not been updated for many years!

[MrT]

Hi FlightChaser

I bought it years ago too, but misplaced it.

Is ACARS worth the investment these days ?

I recall I didn't get many hits from my location.

[radarspotter10]

Anyone know how I can download ACARS to trial a copy without giving my credit card details?

It seems if you want to download a demo, you have to supply cc payment details.

I'm not comfortable with that.

Cheers,
Paul.

i use the free one, http://www.acarsd.org/download.htm
from pat

[MrT]

Thanks Pat,

I'll have a look.

Cheers,

Paul.

[MrT]

I gather with RadarBox you dont really need ACARS as it is built into RB software ?

Can I just hook my scanner up and have RB decode it ?

[Frank]

I gather with RadarBox you dont really need ACARS as it is built into RB software ?

Can I just hook my scanner up and have RB decode it ?

No you can't. You need the Airnav Acars software.

Frank

[John Racars]

I gather with RadarBox you dont really need ACARS as it is built into RB software ?

Can I just hook my scanner up and have RB decode it ?

No, ACARS is not built into RB and RB can not decode ACARS as well. You need separate a scanner, good (highplaced) antenna, ACARS-decoding-software (like AirNav Acars Decoder 2.1) and a PC-soundcard.

[MrT]

So RadarBox just reads and imports its ACARS data from other software like ACARS ?

What other ACARS software is compatible ?

[Allocator]

Only the AirNav ACARDS Decoder 2 software - see the RadarBox Help and Manual for further details.

[MrT]

Only the AirNav ACARDS Decoder 2 software - see the RadarBox Help and Manual for further details.

Thanks.

Is there anyway I can download it then pay for it after I've tried it ?

I don't like giving my CC details just for a demo

[pjm]

So RadarBox just reads and imports its ACARS data from other software like ACARS ?

There is very little integration in RB when you are using the AirNav ACARS software despite all the data being transferred to RB. Pretty much all you will see in an indicator that ACARS data has been received for a particular aircraft. All the other data seems to go straight into a bitbucket :(

Unfortunately this area has received little to no attention during RB development.

[John Racars]

see the RadarBox Help and Manual for further details.

Maybe for some more informations see also this topic:

http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=3301.0

[Allocator]

I used to use ACARS software quite a lot, but although I have the AirNav software, I find that with so much information already available in the aircraft lists an on the map, I don't really have the time to look through the ACARS data.  Very few aircraft seem to pass position on ACARS and even then it is so sporadic as to make tracking using ACARS a bit hit and miss (positions info is not used by the AirNav software anyway).  If you are into collecting ACARS logs and going through these, then I can understand the need, but really ACARS has been left behind by new developments.

[John Racars]

Pretty much all you will see in an indicator that ACARS data has been received for a particular aircraft. All the other data seems to go straight into a bitbucket :(

This is not correct.

If you are using AirNav ACARS Decoder 2.1 in combination with RB then you will see ALL te details of the ACARS-message RB detected behind the ACARS-tab in the RB interface!