I run XPlane11 on my Intel iMac from an 8 Tb USB drive. Lately when I start to load a planned route I get an error saying that the route has been planned with AIRAC 2204 while XPlane has AIRAC 2203 installed. Following some of the post replies here I deleted FMS Manager and installed a fresh copy into my Applications folder. When I launched the manager there were no mappings listed. I added three including XPlane 11 and XPlane GNS 430. I made a point to direct this installation to my XPlane folder on the remote USB drive. I will attach a screenshot of my Manager listing. After completing this update I launched XPlane and, using the installed G430 Nav device, started to load a known route file. As soon as I selected the .fms file and loaded it I got the same same XPlane warning saying the chosen route AIRAC disagreed with the one installed in XPlane (2204 versus 2203). I cannot seem to correct this. Can you assist please? Let me know if you need any additional data.
In my posted note I made a point of saying I was quite careful to select path to the external drive where XPlane is stored. There is only one copy of XPlane I use and it on a dedicated 8 TB USB drive. As you can see in the screen shot posted with my note the Navigraph display indicates the location of the three addons as “User”. This means I have selected a location other than the default “Xplane”. I tried using XPlane earlier and it resulted in the same error message when I tried to load the nav data. I will try your suggestion both ways again.
I probed a bit deeper, going into the Settings window. There i discovered that in spite of carefully choosing the external location of my XPlane folder, the application construed that as my internal desktop folder. That would certainly explain why the airplane would not have the correct data. Accordingly I went into the Paths part of the Settings window and changed the XPlane11 path from my user/desktop to /Volumes/1 - XP/X-PLANE 11/. I think this should work. I’ll let you know.
As described in my last note I changed the path in the settings window to be my external drive where I store XPlane. This seems to have done the trick as I no longer see the warning about incompatible AIRAC generations. A simple fix as it turns out.
