Manually tuned radio is showing as "not in use", unable to interact with ATC menu

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
If I am flying near an airport and have unicom tuned manually I’m not getting options in the ATC menu to use the radio. I’m also not able to find the airport on the nearby list. I’m not sure if that is because of the radio tuning?

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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  1. Fly in and out of an airport while tuned to its unicom frequency
  2. Do not file a plan
  3. On way back access the ATC menu, there should be options to announce position as well as other options. Instead, there is a message that the frequency is not active.

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• Many of the frequencies listed in the EFB and on airport charts do not align with the ones used for in-game ATC comms. Sometimes they are swapped (eg, TOWER will be using the GROUND freq), sometimes they are off by .05, sometimes they just do not correspond at all. This does NOT seem to affect things like VOR stations, just airport freqs. The only reliable way to tune to an airport is to find it in the ATC comms menu, which can be cumbersome if you are trying to get clearance to fly through controlled airspace and have to scroll through 5 constantly-shifting pages of local and uncontrolled airports.

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