Hi SD Team,

I just updated my charts to the latest AIRAC (effective since yesterday) and noticed, that all sector boundaries for German FIS disappeared from the map. Does it have to do with the restructuring of  FIS and that all sectors are now called Langen Information?

I remember from to AIRAC cycles ago, SD displayed the major FIR boundaries between Langen, Bremen and former Munich. I also remeber seeing the sector boundaries between Bremen North (Lower Saxony north of Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein), Bremen South (rest of lower Saxony) and Bremen East (Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).

Now, with the new AIRAC the FIRs have merged into Langen FIR (Munich has merged one or two years ago) but SD still shows the old FIR boundaries but does not show the individual sectors and frequencies anymore.

I already spoke to other SD users of our club and they reported the same across PC, Android and iOS.

Is it because DFS is slow to release new data? Or is there anything I can do to help you? I just recently got the new papaer charts from DFS beeing effective since yesterday and they show the new sectors. If you like, I can scan these charts for you or create some custom data files and mail them to you.

Florian

Until recently SD shown a line on the map (I think green dashed) and provided a label in the virtual radar like "Bremen Information 119.825" with is definitely FIS! Also this information disappeared from the frequency section of the PLOG.

I could count up at least 5 SD customers from our club who asked me about this and would like to have this feature back. Unlike you seem to do it in the UK, FIS does provide radar based traffic and airspace information to VFR pilots. Thus, knowing the exact frequencies and assigned areas is vital for us.

So no matter how you call this feature, bring it back, please!

If you did not get any data with the latest AIRAC this could be because of a delay in publishing them from DFS. The change of all sectors became effective MAR 28 the same date the new 2019 VFR paper charts became effective. No NOTAM or other "official" information has been released to us pilots before. We only received a good-bye letter from the Bremen FIS controllers since their positions where moved to Langen.

If I can do anything to help you getting the necessary data, let me know!

Florian