I just hope that there is any hope to relieve the dilemma of the ever-changing SID/STARs - my flight planner and FMC is constantly out of sync and therefore give me incorrect data and massive flight planning headaches.I would suggest to generally lock down the SID/STARs for flight simming and increase the cycle to a yearly update.

Have this problem too, since day 1.But with so many "basic" problems I see during the last months, either people are all experts who don't care about such "low level" questions, or they handle things the dirty "shut the eyes and run through" way.Andreas

It would be nice if all the products used a universal database structure so the same data would be shared by all.That being said, the data needs to be extracted from FS and all add-on scenery/updates so that scenery and navdata coincide. I do not recall which flight-planner I had but it did extract the data from FS8 when I was using it.I use Radar Contactand NAV 3.1 with FS9 and usinga slight edit to the files downloaded from navdata.at get at least the flight planner and RC to line-up. I also the Reality-XP Apollo 50 GPS which imports flight-plans with their waypoints and uses those for the map display.Unfortunately and perhaps necessary, FMC products seem to use their own database and do not import the location coordinates from the flight plan placed there by the planner. I always include the SID/STAR waypoints outside the 30 nm airport range unless selecting the IAP which excludes approach vectoring in the last stages.Some FMCs can apparently export a plan to FS for use by ATC so if you create it in the FMC FS should then sync up. What needs to be remembered is that unless you request an IAP (and RC has flexibility in this area) ATC is not bound to follow a DP/SID or STAR to its beginning or conclusion.