Will this version have a bit moe updated data- relflecting new runways (MSP, CVG, STL have all opened new runways recently)Bot to mention the wholesale changes at Madrid Barajas and the Polderbaan at Schiphol.Also eliminate 'old' navdata like Weymouth NAS near Boston :)

FSX will have more recent data than FS2004 but it will still be somewhat stale when the product is released--the same as prior versions.

well, the data won't be a few days old when the product is released, if history is any indication it will be a year to 18 months old.

"FSX will have more recent data than FS2004 but it will still be somewhat stale when the product is released--the same as prior versions."This has probably been answered somewhere but I can't seem to find it in my searches.Can the Nav Data in FSX be updated during the life of the product or will it be static like now?I dream of world where add-on nav data and Flight Simulator nav data live together in beautiful place where runway 9L in one world doesn't mean 8R in another. And where people in Vienna don't have to work day and night for no money to make sense of it all. Please Microsoft, take us to the promised land.

I guess the "promised land" includes sids and stars too.

Can the Nav Data in FSX be updated during the life of the product or will it be static like now?The Nav Data in FS2004 can be updated now and has been for many airports.However, no one has taken on the task of making massive updates across the entire world / system.The FS2004 system which includes holding points, holding patterns, missed approach procedures and missed approach holds takes a lot of data.There is one caveat to the updates. Default Navigation Aids cannot be removed. Those which have been decommissioned can be set to an off frequency and to a 1 nm range - but they will still be present.

the vast majority of users wouldn't care for such updates, so spending the effort to provide for them makes no sense from a business perspective for Microsoft.

>Will this version have a bit moe updated data- relflecting>new runways (MSP, CVG, STL have all opened new runways>recently)>In the case of KATL and KSTL's new runways, they are too new to be in FSX. This exact topic was discussed a few months ago here in another thread, and STL and ATL were specifically brought up.Rhett

I posted this a long time ago but here goes again...snapshot of data was taken by MSFS in April of 2005. Anything built after that in regards to runways, VORS, new intersections, etc... will not be in FSX.