Will Microsoft, Xbox and PMDG teams collectively find a way to update nav data?

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HalberQuacky made a really informative post in the PMDG 737 Xbox thread about Navdata sources in the real world and in MSFS - here is a link.

And I have no doubt it is complicated, and there is no simple answer. However, at the end of the day, I still think Microsoft could and should ensure that airplanes and navdata sold in the marketplace have a pathway for updates - and some carrot and stick incentivization for developers to actually provide them.

PMDG 737 Discussion (Xbox Series S|X version)

I need to reiterate what I said in a previous post. PMDG aircraft use a proprietary nav data format, which is found in every product they have sold for the last 20 years on all platforms: FSX, P3D and now, MSFS. The nav data is the heart and soul of the FMS. Almost every internal function of the FMS depends on it, and PMDG FMS units are specifically coded to work with their own format. It’s not that they couldn’t change to using MSFS native data, but doing so wouid involve many months of wor…