I think it's funny when people balk at having to pay for nav updates...

You paid $70 (or $95) for the plane(s), but don't want to pay ~$25 for a year's worth of nav updates?

 

If you don't want to pay, go diving into the FAA database and parse it into the proper formats yourself. Have fun.

 

Doesn't it beg the question as to why the aircraft use the raw data? Must be something navdata does that's pretty good for the aircraft makers. Never seen any raw data or what the navdata output looks like so I can't say.

Doesn't it beg the question as to why the aircraft use the raw data? Must be something navdata does that's pretty good for the aircraft makers. Never seen any raw data or what the navdata output looks like so I can't say.

 

If it's from the FAA, you can guarantee it doesn't exactly sit well with computers, thus the parsing.

You sure you have the revision 3 1207 Adam? I see everything at CYOW fine here:

 

 

Best thing to do to be sure is to completely delete the FSX\PMDG\Navdata and SIDSTARS folders, then download and run the revision 3 installer from the Navigraph site.

Thanks Ryan !

Best thing to do to be sure is to completely delete the FSX\PMDG\Navdata and SIDSTARS folders, then download and run the revision 3 installer from the Navigraph site.

 

Is it really necessary to delete the old data first?

 

I thought the installer from Navigraph took care of that?

 

Maybe I've been using wrong data for a while...

Awesome news Ryan! Thanks for the heads up.

 

Cheers

Is it really necessary to delete the old data first?

 

I thought the installer from Navigraph took care of that?

 

Maybe I've been using wrong data for a while...

 

Necessary? No. I always delete the old data as it saves having to wait for the old data to be backed up before the installer installs the new.

Registered.. found out you had to pay for some credits to buy it. :( Pass.

 

Well if you have a fmc and fly online, it is a must. And I think it isn't expensive.

You don't have to buy all. You can choose to buy 2 times a year. You're not up to date than, but most of the time you don't notice the data is outdated.

 

Eric

So, how much are the credits? I think I would only update every 1 to 2 years...unless I ran into a problem.

€10 = 100 credits

€20 = 200 credits

€30 = 350 credits

 

Each FMS Data cylce update = 20 credits.

 

So you could buy €10 worth, update twice a year keeping you up to date for 2 / 3 years like I do. Not a bad deal.

Yeah I paid $13, and I can use those credits for 5 updates.

 

I only run updates every quarter or so

 

And it is for any plane in the list you only use one set of credits.

 

So I used 20 credits and that updated PMDG J41, NGX, Flight1 Mustang, Feelthere ERJ, Feelthere EJets, and FSBuild

sensational ,the cheapest must have add on

What about having the gate data added, that's always kind of frustrated me telling me that it's not in the database.

Devin,

 

The gate data is kind of superfluous though - it's only used to get the coordinates to enter into the IRS, it doesn't do anything else useful. Since all our planes are equipped with GPS, you can get the accurate coordinates for your present position right off the POS INIT page 2 and line select them in for the IRS entry.

Registered.. found out you had to pay for some credits to buy it. :( Pass.

 

It's about 10 USD for 100 credits. 20 credits gets you a cycle for ALL the airplanes you fly (ie I've got NGX, F1 Mustang, T182, ES C750, etc etc). You don't have to buy every new cycle, nor do you have to keep buying new cycles. Your credits will expire though after 200 or so days however. I bought a few cycles for a while then stopped - the navdata doesn't change that much over the course of a year. Most times the changes add another higher number to the DP... like the MSP5 departure instead of MSP4. I fly on vatsim and Pilot Edge with late 2011 data no issues.