The CRJ requires a manual download
Yes i did. I have the last AIRAC installed manually from navigraph.
Yes. I have downloaded the last AIRAC from navigraph.
Two different downloads, right? One for MSFS in general, and one for the CRJ specifically.
ohhh ok no. For MSFS I have not downloaded from Navigraph. So I have to download the two of them right?
Yes, the CRJ manual download is on the Navigraph site IIRC. Log in, Downloads, manual downloads, choose the CRJā¦ then I think you just run the installer that you just downloaded
For the MSFS download you need the Navigraph beta installer
FAQ - How to install/update the Navigraph Navdata Installer - MSFS Navdata Beta / FAQ - Navigraph
for the MSFS beta install instructions
ooook I will try it. Thanks!
Release notes - Supported MSFS Addons - MSFS Navdata Beta / Release Notes - Navigraph
might help if you havenāt installed the CRJ data
Insert USR question:
Iāve loaded a completed FPLN to FMS from SimBrief, and how can I insert one more user waypoint, up in the air?
I am not skipping original route but adding extra, so I canāt do it in LEG page. In FPLN how can I insert an empty slot ?
It seems only possible adding behind all planned airways / waypoints. Thanks.
Totally agree. Thereās no reason why a user should be subjected to this long manual process everytime. I remember the Zibo 737 from Xplane 11 had the capability of importing a flight plan file with a particular extension (I believe it was .pln). Something similar should have been there.
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You already can import a flight plan file into the CRJ FMS. Not sure what youāre saying here.
So itās not clearly documented in the manual, but you can indeed import a flight plan from a file in their custom format. SimBrief can generate that format, so if you do your flight planning with SimBrief itās fairly trivial to set up ā once you know the secret!
Hereās a video explaining how to do it:
But there is no technical reason they couldnt give you the option of using the MSFS flight planner. ITs more of an oversite by Aerosoft. A few lines of code and the FS plans could work with the CRJ.
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They donāt use the same database. It wasnāt possible to use the default database in the aircraft the way it was designed. Most of the high-fidelity aircraft does not use default nav databases. Expect more of this when other complex airliners come. Again, this is the way all of the complex airliners have been. NONE of them use the plans from the default planner. PMDG, Majestic, QWings, FSLabs, MilVizā¦ THEY ALL SHIP WITH THEIR OWN DATABASE, WHICH IS UPGRADABLE VIA NAVIGRAPH. NONE use the default planner and it isnāt possible to use the default planner routes on them. It has been this way in P3D for ages.
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After FPLN imported by SimBrief, how can we insert a waypoint (fix) between loaded legs?
I canāt do it in LEG or FPLN page, is there not possible?
According to the manual, in Vol6_FMS.pdf:
Does this procedure work for you?
(Note the tooltip placement in the screenshot in the manual looks odd; the button LSK 5L is the fifth button down on the left, not the sixth! Itās the one at the position you want to insert at.)
That is one reason why to stay away from those aircraft in favor for Fly By Wire and others which use the built in AIRAC and the built in flight planner. Now Navigraph has bought SimBrief so they will probably convince aircraft developers to use their APIs. That is a bad route for all of us because we are forced to spend more money on subscriptions instead of buying aircraft.
I like that Microsoft has locked their weather system for external parties. We want to have good basic infrastructure directly built in to the sim That seems to be a good architectural decision for all end users.
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OKā¦ I mean, Fly By Wire canāt compare to FSLabs or PMDG. No offense to FBW, they have done an incredible job, but it has taken YEARS to develop those other aircraft and there is no comparison. If entering your flight plan is gonna make you stay away from them - well, itās your loss. A pretty big one, at that. You also arenāt FORCED to do anything. The following is not āYOUā specifically, but you as inā¦ general. You can keep flying default aircraft if you want. But then donāt complain about lack of complex aircraft. If you canāt bother to learn how to program the flight plan (which takes all of 3 minutes)ā¦ you donāt REALLY want complex aircraft. For those of us that enjoy having nice things, there are nice options.
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There is a technical reason. How did you come to the conclusion that there wasnāt?