A VOR was off by 5 degrees. List of problematic VORs?

[HalberQuacky]

@GoRongor

No matter how he got there: His CDI shows him on a specific radial which appears to be 5° off that very radial when shown on a map. Unless these maps are using a terrible projection causing such a deviation within only 15 NM distance, there is no room to assume much else than a misconfigured VOR. The North direction (maybe currently suffering from an error in the local magnetic variation database) of that VOR needs to be corrected. Then, this problem will be gone.

In this case, the variation for the EHK VOR defined in the default MSFS nav data is incorrect. It has the current variation of 11 degrees, instead of the correct variation of 16 degrees that exists in the real VOR zero degree radial. This causes all the radials of that VOR to be rotated 5 degrees to the left of where they actually lie on a georeferenced chart like LNM uses, so a sim aircraft flying the airway with a centered CDI and correct course selected will be off course to the left when plotted in LNM.

Most VORs in default MSFS have the correct published variation, but some (like EHK), “slipped through the cracks” in the import process, and ended up with the current variation. I assume this happened in the process of converting the original NavBlue source data into BGL format for use in MSFS.

Either that, or the original source data was wrong. Based on some other egregious errors I have seen in various approaches supplied by NavBlue, I can’t rule out that the problem might be on their end rather than Asobo’s.