I found that on my site no thumbnails (from www.airport-data.com ) showing up anymore.
After hours of debugging my network without effect, I found that installations with mono throw such an error:
NB On at least one of the links posted by OP (http://trackadsb.com/VirtualRadar/desktop.html) images are displayed for some aircraft, but for those aircraft, I don't see the call to AirportDataThumbnails.json being made?
Unfortunately no, I found never a solution for this...
My programming skills are way to limited. To me, it looks like a bug in airport-datas-API. It worked a long time and without doing anything on VRS, it stopped working. So Id say VRS is not the source of the problem. The people on airport-data must have changed something.
I dont know if we can change the picture-provider? I think there is an option to enable this feature in general, but no option to select another provider. I assume airport-data is hard-coded in VRS.
Unless airport-data reverts their API-change or VRS gets updated to use another provider (or let us choose antoher one), I see no way to get the pictures back. But as told above, Im not a programmer. Maybe a simple fix could be implemented, but thats beyond the scope of my knowledge.
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