I too am able to type in KW99 into the REF NAV DATA page, but all it does is display the airports coordinates and runway info. This proves that the airport is indeed in the data base already - so why can it not be entered as a destination in the RTE page?

 

No really it works fine for me, I can enter it as a destination without a problem.

 

The only thing I can think is that you will have different NAV DATA from me - although mine is at least a year old, but not the one that ships with the NGX.

 

G

Just in addition to my above posting, someone may simply want to check the principle availability of an airport in the FMC's database. Just search the airport.dat file for the airport code, here W99, and it will produce in this case KW99 as result, that's it. By the way, it does not guarantee that you can land there as some airports in PMDG's navdata would never see a B737 - or only once as the bird would likely not survive any attempt to land there. You should check before the runway lenght. Most of those short ones (in summary Excel told me that in Navigraph's AIRAC 1209 there are 2707 listed < 3000ft lenght) are belonging to airports having runways with sufficient conditions but in some cases even none exists.

Example (randomly from wpnavapt.txt, it even does not exist in FSX, it seems):

 

LAKE MURRAY STATE PARK K1F114 02500146 34.077558 -97.108336000.0014600817

Name ICAO Rwy Len Hdg Lat Lon ILS Hdg Alt

 

I marked the ICAO and the rwy lenght in red.

This scheme may help editing the file in order to extend it, the file airport.dat has to be amended, too, but it is much simpler. If adding something both should be ordered by LAT/LON. In this case ADEX might be you friend to add the field into FSX.

Okay, I just need to say something here - to ALL who posted.

 

It has been a VERY LONG TIME since I read an email that:

 

 

1. Had so many different answers,

 

2. Every response/answer was EXCELLENT,

 

3. And the email in chain general provided terrific, well rounded approach to problem solving.

 

 

So, I'd just like to say thank you to everyone who participated. I really love to read forum posts/responses like this. Renews my faith for BBS traffic.

 

 

Dave