Indeed. Like I said above, I always have my plates out and my ILS frequencies in my nav radio ahead of time in case things don’t work automatically. If it all works as it’s supposed to, then great. And if it doesn’t I don’t want to be scrambling at the last second looking up radio frequencies and messing with radio knobs. All I have to do is switch my CDI source manually and I’m good to go.
The lesson here is to ALWAYS have a backup plan ready to go in case the main plan doesn’t work.
Pilot speak for “I did the Nintendo Cartridge lick on the headphone plug and plugged it back in”…(lol)
ROFL – I am surprised it lasted that long !!!
Maybe its no co-incidence that “S C R U M” rhymes with “D U M B”
It seems to almost be a “Cult” thing , and those that fall into it need an Intervention.
Your argument makes little sense when three different 3rd party devs produced product all with the same error, which on no uncertain terms implies the map is misleading, or is omitting data fields or something along those lines.
One of the developers has already addressed this by making a statement over on Avsim. it is a limitation of the SDK at this point. Asobo is working on it and once the SDK is corrected so that they can create their own custom ILS settings, then the airports will be updated and your issue will be addressed by the 3PD’s as required.
Nuff said. In the meantime. Feel free to dial in the frequencies as so many others have suggested you do in the meantime, and let’s stop beating this particular horse as it is now clearly dead.
So, I have a dumb question. I have the Navigraph subscription and use it on my tablet for charts, flight planning, etc. When people say that they have the AIRAC data installed in the sim, how exactly does that work? Do I need to do something to install it, or does that happen when Navigraph is installed in my system? As FYI, I have several 3rd party airports and have yet to experience a situation where one of the approaches was missing. That being said, yesterday I landed at KBBG (Branson, MO) which has a Navigraph ILS chart, but there were no instrument landing procedures in-game. This is a base game airport.
Yes that news happened 24h ago. I already understood how to dial in freq have done it for decades which is why I never requested suggestions on this which my post should make imminently clear–I only made the post to help make people aware of the issue, and glad it is verified acknowldeged and will be solved at some point.
It’s not that the approach is missing. The approach is still there. But there is an issue with the SDK that does not allow 3PD’s to bring in their own custom Navaids to replace the default. This is why sometimes there might be some misalignment with the NAVAID and the modified airport. But the biggest symptom of this is that it prohibits the ILS frequencies from being autopopulated into the FMC or MCDU. You have to dial those in separately.
In the default airports, or the Asobo (handcrafted) ones, the ILS frequencies are autopopulated into the Avionics so you don’t have to dial it in.
That’s the issue at hand.
If you drop into the Navigraph forum, there’s a link for the MSFS Beta FMS data installer there. They don’t link it from their main site atm because it’s still in beta. You run that, it will find your install of MSFS and install the FMS data into your Community folder like a mod.
If you mean our FSDT CYVR, it’s a 100% full replacement of the whole airport, including runways, which all come with their own ILS and all parking, taxiways, everything.
It should be fairly easy to spot visually we replaced the runways, since they have the custom canadian-style markings with the smaller runway numbers, which can’t be made unless you replace the default runway with a custom one with no markings, so your own custom ones can be seen instead.
Not at all dumb. You need an additional piece of software to install the database so that MSFS can see it.
I meant no offence. I love the airport. I was just trying to figure out why your airport seems to work and so many others do not. One developer said that the SDK didn’t allow them to inject custom ILS into the airport. But you somehow did. It seems that FSDT was able to pull off what a lot of other 3PD’s did not. So congratulations.
Well I bought CYVR and was happy to see the problem (ILS Freq in the MFD) is solved w/ this. One question though as I haven’t even been at CYVR since purchasing last noc: does if have a perfectly level runways, or are they sloped like the default ones? I read somewhere 3rd party airports don’t offer sloped runways for some reason.
I don’t know about CYVR, but I have 3rd party free and pay and all have slopes.
LEIB 3rd party airport has the same issue but it wont let you manually insert the ILS frequency.Makes it useless as you cant use ILS.
Did you try it without the slash?
Yea I wouldn’t expect you guys to fix issues with 3rd party products when you can’t even fix issues with 1st party material. Funny though that unpaid community members can mod your 1st party products in a week and give better results while you guys have been at it for almost 2 years.
It also works with LFSB and LSZH (both FSDT addons). So there is a solution apparently.
It’s one thing to fix a leaking bathroom sink and quite another to build an entire mansion. What an unappreciative perspective you portray. Go back to FSX where everything is perfect.
Not really when they had your perfect FSX as a guide to build the aircraft and still end up failing so bad.
