G3X Touch + GDL39R + GTX23ES = occasional traffic failures?

[kaa]

Hi everyone,

Recently I started getting occasional traffic page failures, which I'm not quite sure how to debug.

I have dual G3X Touch displays, and GDL39R is connected to the MFD. Normally the traffic page looks like this:

However, sometimes it looks like this:

When this happens, GDL39 is still online:

Note that the traffic page says that the source of traffic is now GTX TIS-A, but there never any traffic data when this is the case.

Why does this happen? Should I just disable "TIS-A Traffic data" in the remote transponder configuration page? Or is there a way to use all traffic sources (GTX TIS-A never seems to work though for some reason).

Thanks!

 

[DillTen]

May be related to this thread where other users of this combination, including myself, have sporadic drop-outs of traffic data.

 

[kaa]

Looks exactly the same, thanks for pointing it out. I guess I could've searched better.

Maybe mods can merge the two threads.

 

[Longez]

Should I just disable "TIS-A Traffic data" in the remote transponder configuration page?

Yes, you should disable TIS-A traffic on the GTX 23ES configuration page since you have a great ADS-B traffic/weather receiver.

TIS-A traffic availability is VERY limited in the U.S. and is very low value compared to ADS-B traffic. You never want your G3X Touch system to use TIS-A traffic over ADS-B traffic and disabling TIS-A is the best way to assure this.

Steve

 

[kaa]

Disabling TIS-A seemed to help, we'll see long term. Thanks!