The real world lat/long for Phoenix is 77°57.43’S/166°44.60’E. When flying to NZFX, the navdata takes you to a spot approximately 5 miles north, at 77°52.90’S/166°42.30’E. The ZFX VOR is in the proper position however the airfield is not. I don’t know if this is a product of lack of up to date scenery but it does create issues with approaches into the airfield which, are used for nearly every arrival due to the nature of the environment and lack of useful landmarks.
Hi,
Are you able to provide us with your official source, please, so that we can report this?
Thank you!
Cheers
Richard
Please see the attached screenshot from my real world EFB and up to date navigational data (AIRAC 2601). The upper pin is the improper, simulator-derived navdata location for NZFX which differs significantly from the real world operational airfield. This discrepancy causes incorrect runway placement and alignment in the simulator (I am on Xplane) as well as threshold enforcement issues in the Xplane WED.
I cannot upload the document here but you can reference the US Antarctic Program Interagency Air Operations Manual for the locations of Mcmurdo area airfields. The 2023 version is the most recent publicly available version so there are some slight variations but it is still fairly accurate.
Hi,
Thanks for the information. The X-Plane dataset does not contain airport or runway information (you can’t update it using the X-Plane SDK). So these misalignments should be reported directly to X-Plane; they are part of their software.
In other words, we can’t fix this - only X-Plane.
Cheers
Richard