As I become more educated on programming an FMC and executing the flight plans, something has happened occasional that I don’t understand. I am using Beyond ATC with a flight plan that I imported from SIMbrief. In this case I am flying a Citation X in msfs 2020 but it has happened in other scenarios.
I fly the flight plan and then ATC tells me to fly a specific arrival. When I enter the runway I have been instructed to do, and look for the arrival in the fmc, it is not there. There are several others but not the one that beyond ATC told me to do. So I have to another arrival to that runway. Is this because the SIM does not have all the arrivals in its database that Beyond ATC has? Occasionally one of the arrivals will be a very similar name, maybe the same letters but with a different number after the letters. I am trying to understand why this happens and what I should do to be able to complete the flight using the instructions given by Beyond ATC.
True, but the one in game shall be also the same or as close to real as posible for info to match between Simbrief and avionics in game. I don´t use MSFS now but I have run into similar problems with FS2024. In my case GPS did not accept the flight plan importation as it contained a STAR which was replaced (had a different name) in the newer versions of game´s AIRAC, resulting in Simbrief waypoints not existing and flight plan therefore not working correctly. Simbrief free one is from Spring last year indeed.
At the end of the day it´s better to use Navigraph as Microsoft regulary updates the navigation data base as well, so a very old AIRAC can be useless in some cases and result in avionics not working or facing problems with missing info as you describe.
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I really wonder what posts belong in General Discussion, as most any post can relate to another category. It seems that as soon as someone asks a question it automatically goes to User Support Hub. And even then it is confusing. I have a discrepancy between an airport arrival choice in an FMC and an arrival listed in an ATC program. So is that Aircraft and Systems (FMC is a system)? Or ATC, Traffic & Navaids? Scenery and Airports? Too many categories with easy room for overlap. The moderators could spend their time better on other things than constantly warning about slight judgement calls in posting to a category or sub-category. It’s a bit over the top.