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

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

 

Edited September 14, 20241 yr by ray hughes

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.