New instrument - NEXRAD age

MGiacomet

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The age of ADS-B NEXRAD imagery is important.

Please add a new instrument "NEXRAD Age", to display the age of each image as they are animated (or the age of the latest image, if not animating). The instrument would display the age in the format "-HH:MM", e.g., "-00:08" for an image that is 8 minutes old (the minus sign indicating it is a time in the past)



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The age of ADS-B NEXRAD imagery is important.

Please add a new instrument "NEXRAD Age", to display the age of each image as they are animated (or the age of the latest image, if not animating). The instrument would display the age in the format "-HH:MM", e.g., "-00:08" for an image that is 8 minutes old (the minus sign indicating it is a time in the past)
iFly already does this, though there is a long-standing bug in the timestamp (note last couple of frames showing "--" indicating the time is in the future). See the white rectangle in the lower-left corner:
 
iFly already does this, though there is a long-standing bug in the timestamp (note last couple of frames showing "--" indicating the time is in the future). See the white rectangle in the lower-left corner:
Thanks for the video, I see what you mean. Hopefully it'll get fixed. If they make it an instrument, though, it'd give the user flexibility on where to place and how large/small to be, not to mention the info displayed as of today (both Zulu time and age) is redundant. Also, the existing box doesn’t show when it is not animating, so we have no way to know how old the image is.
 
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