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Jason Boche wrote:

Anthony,

Yes, there were a few airports on the World Tour 2023 that were defined in P3Dv4.5 but they don't exist in my FMC or Navigraph Charts (both are supplied with monthly data updates from Navigraph). So while the good news is that you can fly to the airport in the sim, the challenge is that the FMC in your aircraft can't bring you directly there. The reason for this is it seems the airports in the real world have been retired. You can see evidence of this by looking at the airport using an overhead map (for instance using DVA's route planner).

If you're having problems trying to figure out how to use your aircraft's navigational systems to get to the airport, continue reading and I'll share what I did. If you want to figure it out for yourself, stop reading.

You'll need to find the coordinates of the airport. You can find these in multiple places. It should be in your sim. I believe you can also find them by clicking on the airport name/bubble in the DVA route plotter.

Now set up your FMC. Set up your departure airport. For your arrival airport you'll need to select a nearby airport since the one you're flying to is not in the database. On your route or legs page, enter the coordinates of the airport (ie. N050W081 - I'm just making these up).

Now go fly your leg. When the aircraft reaches the coordinates above, descend to VFR altitude and you'll be in the general area but you may not be close enough to the airport to see it. You can either fly around looking for it, or use the mapping function in your sim to see which direction you need to move to fly directly to the airport within the area. If you've entered the route in your sim, it should be easy because you'll see the magenta line going straight to the airport destination in the map.

Once you locate the airport visually, you'll need to choose a runway and hand fly down to the runway. Your FMC should be able to give you fairly accurate numbers for vREF but of course you will have no approaches available to help you.

Jas

Khary Williams wrote:

Jason Boche wrote:

Anthony,

Yes, there were a few airports on the World Tour 2023 that were defined in P3Dv4.5 but they don't exist in my FMC or Navigraph Charts (both are supplied with monthly data updates from Navigraph). So while the good news is that you can fly to the airport in the sim, the challenge is that the FMC in your aircraft can't bring you directly there. The reason for this is it seems the airports in the real world have been retired. You can see evidence of this by looking at the airport using an overhead map (for instance using DVA's route planner).

If you're having problems trying to figure out how to use your aircraft's navigational systems to get to the airport, continue reading and I'll share what I did. If you want to figure it out for yourself, stop reading.

You'll need to find the coordinates of the airport. You can find these in multiple places. It should be in your sim. I believe you can also find them by clicking on the airport name/bubble in the DVA route plotter.

Now set up your FMC. Set up your departure airport. For your arrival airport you'll need to select a nearby airport since the one you're flying to is not in the database. On your route or legs page, enter the coordinates of the airport (ie. N050W081 - I'm just making these up).

Now go fly your leg. When the aircraft reaches the coordinates above, descend to VFR altitude and you'll be in the general area but you may not be close enough to the airport to see it. You can either fly around looking for it, or use the mapping function in your sim to see which direction you need to move to fly directly to the airport within the area. If you've entered the route in your sim, it should be easy because you'll see the magenta line going straight to the airport destination in the map.

Once you locate the airport visually, you'll need to choose a runway and hand fly down to the runway. Your FMC should be able to give you fairly accurate numbers for vREF but of course you will have no approaches available to help you.

Jas

Now I'm trying to figure out how to get off this island lol