For an alternative viewpoint- I have paper charts: High, Low & VFR for almost all of North America/Atlantic, Pacific Oceanic etc. They are 8-10 years old and correspond nicely with my sim airplanes and their databases of that vintage.As a result I do NOT update any database but continue to run neatly in sync with old data info corresponding to the paper charts and various publications.Alex Reid

Full REAL name. Because if your name is Randall Flagg then mine is Roland Deschain.Your's truly,Stephen KingKarsten Sandleben

I think that this is a major case of pwned...

Uhhhhh my REAL name IS Randall Flagg... a very unfortunate relationship to "The Stand".... Apparently my parents never heard of it when they named me lol

Have you tried Dan Downs' customized data of US airports? In this post http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=289108 he says how to get it.

Also look at the free FMS data for around the UK and US area at planepath.com. Remember, though, this is current data and may not match default old scenery used in both FS9 and FSX. It therefore might cause visual alignment problems but not if you are using the "raw" data in the final landing stages which comes from FS navaids in the scenery (ILS, etc.).

What are those exactly?Any waypoints that don't show up are a function of the database, not the FMS itself.

For example - If you want to put in the route page airway A110 ending with waypoint UACK then in the present fms's you are unable to do so as it just comes up 'error' as the fms expects a 5 letter waypoint. (No biggie, just an observation)John Ellison

John, wasn't that just the MD-11? I have a fuzzy memory of this discovery some time after release.

With MY memory Dan, maybe lololJohn Ellison