Pmdg 737 Navigraph

[Ezilda Newnam]

downloadthe 2207 Rev 1 Airac cycle using the Navigraph FMS Data Manager, select PMDG All compatible Products (Download to a folder on your desktop) and then copy the NavData & SidStars folders in to the following \Community\pmdg-aircraft-736\Config

So after messing with this for a few hours, I went into the working folder in the MSFS packages folder, and there was a nav folder in there. C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator\LocalState\packages\pmdg-aircraft-737\work\NavData.

Funny you mention this fix as I found it posted somewhere else not long after posting this - and indeed deleting/removing RWY DATA file fixed my issue immediately. Not sure why it went from working to not - but I will keep this in mind for future Airac updates. Cheers!

MSFS uses NavBlue nav data, and provides an API for 3rd party content makers (ie, planes) to access - and encourages them to do so. There are regular AIRAC data updates applied automatically in MSFS (13 per year?).

Their argument makes no sense. How a plane works has nothing to do with what waypoints the pilot wants to use in a flight plan. Also, I use Navigraph on an iPad, and import Simbrief plans in to the default 787, with (almost) no problems of missing or mismatch data when both are using the same AIRAC version. Maybe 1 here and there, easy to fix.

The native navdata - with missed approach procedures - works fine with the new 787 and 747. I import SImbrief / Navigraph flight plans in to the 787 (which uses the NavBlue database) and they match 99% of the time. So this is a bogus argument.

Obviously for PMDG to include Navigraph nav data would require a license, so do you suggest that PMDG forces marketplace customers to pay a 10 dollar / month subscription fee? Because having the navdata updates included in the plane, would require a per-user subscription.

Even worse for PC users who bought the plane on Marketplace, and are already paying for a Navigraph subscription. Would you want to force them to pay double?

If the Navblue airac was complete enough to make the PMDG systems work, that would be an option. I tend to believe PMDG in this case though, rather than a theory that they have a deal with navigraph preventing that.

When the sim was released, KASH, a super busy airport had no approach data. I had to program them in myself (I had figured out how back in the FSX days). Finally I think a year and a half later it was added in.

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