Updated the FMC with 2013 but the FMC still shows its not up to date. Boy you really need it in Alaska some of those airports are way off centerline. Oh you know the show on TV that shows Unakleet Alaska? MSFS sure missed that one the airport is nothing like the real one. Is there an Alaska update you know of? Dan Thompson

Can't really answer your Navigraph question, I would just double check the NGX or whichever PMDG product you're using is in fact using the new nav data. Here is the nice little freeware I use for Unalakleet: http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/8887/fsx-unalakleet-alaska-scenery/

"some of those airports are way off centerline" What do you mean by this? The runways are misaligned? or do you mean the approaches are offset from the runway centerline?

 

Alex

Sounds like you need to update your Magnetic declination file (magdec.bgl) as since parts of FSX are nearly 15 years old, magnetic bearings have changed by a few degrees since then. You can download the 2010 magdec.bgl file from here http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids.html. Whilst your there download the latest NAVAID update as well. These updates coupled with the latest NAVDATA should align your runways with the approaches correctly.

Updated the FMC with 2013 but the FMC still shows its not up to date.

 

Hi Dan,

 

Maybe you use a saved flight. (with an older time or month)

You have to go to time and season and hit the button refresh or update.

 

Eric

This is all I had to do to fix the runways I had problems with:

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/356825-ils-localizer-slip-off-744x-and-md11x/

 

I didn't have to grab any new mag files or Navigraph data to work with native FSX airports so far but I'm not 100% certain about Unalakleet. I landed there once two weeks ago using native FSX GPS and I don't recall any problems. And yeah, it was totally barren; just a turn off and a fuel box

 

Clark

 

Can't really answer your Navigraph question, I would just double check the NGX or whichever PMDG product you're using is in fact using the new nav data. Here is the nice little freeware I use for Unalakleet: http://flyawaysimula...alaska-scenery/

 

Thanks for the tip!

I didn't have to grab any new mag files or Navigraph data to work with native FSX airports so far but I'm not 100% certain about Unalakleet. I landed there once two weeks ago using native FSX GPS and I don't recall any problems.

 

So you're telling me that a combination of a grossly out of date magdec.bgl file and a 3 degree offset localiser wouldn't be a recipe for disaster in this instance??

 

But then I suppose if you go out of your way to (somehow!) use the stock standard FSX GPS and not bother to learn the aircraft's own navigational systems then you wont have to worry about about runway headings, offset ILS's or magnetic variations. WINNER!

Sounds like you need to update your Magnetic declination file (magdec.bgl) as since parts of FSX are nearly 15 years old, magnetic bearings have changed by a few degrees since then. You can download the 2010 magdec.bgl file from here http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids.html. Whilst your there download the latest NAVAID update as well. These updates coupled with the latest NAVDATA should align your runways with the approaches correctly.

 

For some reason your link doesn't work, but if you go to the page you can then choose to download the file. Thanks for the info, good to know there's one more improvement for FSX.

For some reason your link doesn't work, but if you go to the page you can then choose to download the file. Thanks for the info, good to know there's one more improvement for FSX.

 

Your'e very welcome, happy to help. If anybody else is having trouble with the link (seems to be working my end) the link is contained in this forum post http://forum.avsim.net/topic/336155-magnetic-variation-updates-for-fs9-and-fsx/

 

It's a must have in my opinion

So you're telling me that a combination of a grossly out of date magdec.bgl file and a 3 degree offset localiser wouldn't be a recipe for disaster in this instance??

 

But then I suppose if you go out of your way to (somehow!) use the stock standard FSX GPS and not bother to learn the aircraft's own navigational systems then you wont have to worry about about runway headings, offset ILS's or magnetic variations. WINNER!

 

Snark ignored. I flew to PAUN in a Cessna with a stock FMS so that's all I could say about it.

 

However, I did have very similar problems at KSEA on the PMDG MD11 and all that was needed to "fix" the MD11 ILS offset to match the default airport was just the registry fix I mentioned. That doesn't accommodate the new runway they added though. Since then I've landed at dozens of stock FSX US airports with no problems in the MD11.

 

Sooo, someday maybe I'll encounter a mismatch and need to download the mag file, or maybe not. So far so good. Don't know what else to say.