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Fenix A320 - Possible to input destination not in navdata?


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Hello fellow aviators,

I'm currently flying quite a bit in China. Some interesting airports like ZUZH, but most of these domestic airports have no published navdata so Jeppesen/Simbrief/Navigraph are at a loss. Operating A320 on an airport not in navdata must be rare in real life, but of course technically possible.

So, does anyone know if there is a way to INIT a flightplan to a destination not in navdata? I tried INIT FROM/TO with coordinates in a few different formats and also with a "Pilot waypoint", but didn't work.

My current workaround is creating a flightplan to a nearby airport, after which I create two Pilot Waypoints in the MCDU: One for the end of target runway and one 10nm out as final approach fix, and then programming target altitudes and minimums as constraints.

This is niche within a niche, but perhaps someone here has an answer. 🙂

- Tuomas

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I usually purchase samscene 3d scenery with airports, or the other crowd that did Hong kong and shanghai. (WF).

I don't fly to smaller airports in china, just cities hubs.. But i understand exactly what you mean. I can recall routing the 738 to one large city only to arrive and find absolutely no stock airport.. Just a blank patch where it should have been. Subsequently i purchased the samscene 3d airport for this city. (Using the Internet i can usually find some Navdata for approaches).

This of course does cost money and frankly i am pretty annoyed the stock msfs so poorly underrepresents this aviation area.. However wirh map enhancer, and 3rd party contributions i can at least get a decent experience. But not all airports are addressed in this manner so Flightsim.to is where you can usually find enhancements on some of the lesser known airports

 

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Worth mentioning that Samscene recommends to put its airports at the bottom of the load list so that their internal navdata will override navigraph/default. Not sure if it'll solve your issue (not sure if you're even using a Samscene airport), but thought I'd mention. 

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