Hi,I have not yet purchased PMDG aircraft, I would like you guy that have it allready to tellme one thingIs the navaigation data used by PMDG in the format of a txt file ? Could you post here a same peae of it.This is because I am looking for navigation data for europe in the format ARINC 424-18 , this format is a txt file with all navigation information; it can also be used by other software and GPS.Thanks,Ian

You might want to check out Navigraph. They are the ones who distribute most FS navdata. Also, the PMDG navdata covers the entire world, not just Europe. I'm not familiar with the AIRINC 424-18 format, so I can't tell you whether or not the PMDG data will work.

Our navdata is not ARINC 424 format, and please don't post any of it here, it's not free information as it comes from the work of Richard Stefan and Navigraph and is payware. Any attempts to post our navdata here will be deleted/banned.

Dear PMDG staff, please let me clarify:I do not want anybody to post here any files from you or from others.I wanted to ask if your nav data is ARINC 424-18 or not , if yes I would have purchased one of your product.I also wanted to ask if anybody know were I can find ARINC 424-18 nav data , I am ready to pay offcourse if the files are payware.I need outdated data as it is for simulations.I have been to Navigraph (I have an account with them) but cannot see anything that looks like ARINC 424-18.Thanks for anybody's help,Ian

Hi Ian, Please sign your full name to posts in this forum per forum rules, thanks.Perhaps this may be of interest to you?https://www.arinc.com/cf/store/catalog_detail.cfm?item_id=609Not quite sure what that particular ARINC is but lots of hits on Google.

Hi Ian, Please sign your full name to posts in this forum per forum rules, thanks.Perhaps this may be of interest to you?https://www.arinc.com/cf/store/catalog_detail.cfm?item_id=609Not quite sure what that particular ARINC is but lots of hits on Google.

Captains, please allow the moderators to enforce forum rules. Thanks.

Hi Ian, Please sign your full name to posts in this forum per forum rules, thanks.Perhaps this may be of interest to you?https://www.arinc.com/cf/store/catalog_detail.cfm?item_id=609Not quite sure what that particular ARINC is but lots of hits on Google.

Captains, please allow the moderators to enforce forum rules. Thanks.

Don't quit your day job.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/299581-name-signing-rule/page__view__findpost__p__1837989

Before you go quoting someone you should read what they were actually referring to, Eric.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/299581-name-signing-rule/page__view__findpost__p__1837989

Dan, a moderator has already been in this topic, replied, and has not said anything. Let's not be more catholic than the pope.

Read my original post, Eric. I oftered a great link, good advice and was polite. People like you make more of things than they are, get a grip and look at who's helping and who's the one actually trying to play forum police.

Read my original post, Eric. I oftered a great link, good advice and was polite. People like you make more of things than they are, get a grip and look at who's helping and who's the one actually trying to play forum police.

Thanks to Turbine777 for the link, I had found this already but what they are proposing is the standard to make ARINC nav data not the data it self, I have looked on the web without any success.Sorry about the full name issue, done as you can see belowThanks,Ian

Ian, I am not aware of any hobby-level simulation that uses ARINC 424 format. I started my search a few years ago and concluded that the best thing out there from the simulation pilot perspective was PMDG. The format that Navigraph provides for the PMDG aircraft is all text, global in nature and includes navaids, fixes, airways and terminal procedures. It is relatively easy to manipulate if you want to add an old favorite such as VHHX, and is issued every 28 day cycle in an easy to download/install package. There is an excellent tutorial on how to create or edit the terminal procedures (sidstars) available free at Terry Yingling's site planepath.com. Have a look if you are interested.The major limitations with the current navdata format used by PMDG is the lack of radius to fix legs but there are good workarounds.The bottom line, FMS-based navigation is fully implemented and the data cost is a couple of bucks per cycle as opposed to the greatly higher cost of the ARINC products.You might also be interested in the NACO (FAA) digital aeronautical products available for sale at their web site, most of their products are free but you can get the raw data that is manipulated by various OEM's for a cost.

Thanks for your post,I have already purchased the PMDG nav data and yes it looks good.I am trying to us it with FTS (Fly This Sim) software , they have a GNS430 in there panels but with only US navigation data.They informed me there nav data is in ARINC 424-18 format.So now I have the PMDG nav data I am not to sure of how I will get the data into my FTS, I think I have a few hours of work and testing in front of me.Thanks for your help, highly appreciated.Ian

Why not just buy the Reality XP GNS430?

Why not just buy the Reality XP GNS430?

Not sure what that has to do with anything, but if it does use that particular ARINC that he's looking for then that may be why he's looking for it since anyone that has the 430 (530 in my case) knows the database is still fairly old, and yep I'm considering with the manual update - still old.

If you get a G1000 PC Trainer (about $40) it comes with ARINC compliant database (byte format) that covers practically the whole world, but how you are going to extract this data and make it available to your FTS simulator - I have no idea and I highly doubt it will be possible.