AIRAC 2610 — PMDG 777 manual airway entries returning INVALID ENTRY

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After updating from AIRAC 2609 to AIRAC 2610, certain airways return INVALID ENTRY when manually entered in the PMDG 777 FMC.

This did not occur with AIRAC 2609.

Aircraft / Software

  • Aircraft: PMDG 777
  • Simulator: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
  • Navigation data provider: Navigraph
  • Previous AIRAC: 2609
  • Current AIRAC: 2610

Steps to reproduce

On the PMDG 777 RTE page, enter:

VIA: DIRECT | TO: DALOL

Then on the next line:

VIA: V631

The FMC immediately returns INVALID ENTRY.

The individual waypoints are valid. For example, DALOL and ENVAR are both accepted, and DALOL → ENVAR can be entered as DIRECT.

The same behavior occurs with:

  • MADOG → Y753 — INVALID ENTRY

Additional airway testing

To determine whether the problem affected airway entry generally, I tested additional airway segments on separate flights using AIRAC 2610:

  • BURGG → Q22 → RBV — entering Q22 returns INVALID ENTRY
  • SSOXS → Q167 — works
  • RBV → Q419 — works

SimBrief comparison

The complete VHHH → KLAX route:

DALOL V631 ENVAR M750 MADOG Y753 JAKAL A1 ALBAT Y755 CARDS HIOTI CBE MORIZ TENRU Y88 DAIGO Y889 OATIS OTR3 PUTER A590 PUGAL A590 POWAL 5100N/17000E 5200N/18000W 5200N/17000W 5200N/16000W 4900N/15000W 4600N/14000W 4200N/13000W VESPA AMAKR BOARS SNS J126 RZS

loads correctly when imported from SimBrief.

Therefore, the route and individual waypoints are available in the database, while the manual airway lookup rejects certain airway segments.

Also, I had this issue in both the 777-200LR and the -300ER.

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Hi,
Wow, what a report … The best thing I have ever seen. A great example of how to write reports. Perfect, much appreciated … very impressed.

But back to the topic:
I will check it, but I have also identified an issue with a waypoint on an airway. Possibly it is the same issue. Let me check it in more detail. I will come back to you with my results.

Please give me a few hours. When needed, we will release a second revision (or course).

Thanks again
Richard

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Thanks for the quick reply. Looking forward to hearing what you find. I have flown this same route out of Hong Kong many times in the 777, entering the route manually each time, and I have never had an “INVALID ENTRY” for any of these airways/waypoints.

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Hi again,
Just an update to this. I have figured out the issue, and it is indeed on our side. I´m sorry. We are working on a fix, and you can expect a new revision within the next couple of hours.

Thanks again for the detailed report and your patience
Richard

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Hi again,
We have fixed it. Please update your PMDGs and try it again. It should work now. We apologize for the problems that have arisen.

MSFS 2024, PMDG T7, AIRAC 2610 revision 2 installed:

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Thank you very much,
Richard

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Awsome, thanks again for the help and the quick resolution.