Missing Airpot names within Navigraph's monthly data

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I’m am a regular annual subscriber to monthly Navigraph Database updates. I always create my flight plans in Simbrief. However, ICAO: VANM is in the Navigraph charts, but it is missing from the FMS Database. I was receiving an “FLIGHTPLAN REJECTED” and BAD ROUTE PARSE within the FMS. I had a hard time finding the problem until I tried to enter the flight plan manually into the FMS and found that VANM, when entered into my destination, came up “Not found in Database”. Changing my route to a near by airport - VABB fixed the upload issue to the FMS.

So it seems that Simbrief was good with the ICAO and Navigraph charts was good with it, the database was borked. where is the validation to prevent this in the future??

It would be nice to have validation if airports ICAO are not found in Navigraph’s database?? I chased my tail for over an hour trying to find this issue!

  1. Sim: XP12
  2. HotStart Challenger
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In what simulator did you try to import the flight plan, and using which aircraft/addon?

Regards,

Tim

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Also, I now looked that airport up:

It’s seemingly/possibly still under construction, and may open in October later this year.

Thus it’s highly unlikely that the airport exists as a default airport in any simulator.

I found a freeware addon for MSFS:

https://flightsim.to/file/64609/project-nmia-navi-mumbai-international-airport

However, for X-Plane 12, I was able to confirm just now that there is no VANM in the base simulator, and there doesn’t seem to be any add-on scenery available for it either.

In X-Plane, airports, runways and taxiways do not come from navdata, but from “apt.dat” files instead. When neither the default apt.dat nor custom sceneries include data for an airport, you will not be able to program a flight to that airport in the FMS of most aircraft.

This is different for some addons that use a fully integrated database (that includes airports and runways), such as the Fenix in MSFS, or addons that use the older “GNS430” database in X-Plane, where, because it exists in Navigraph data, you would be able to program such a flight in the FMS and fly it.

However, without a custom scenery pack depicting the airport, you would arrive at the end of your flight, fully established on the final approach of your choice, facing where the runway supposedly is… only to find out that the runway (and surrounding airport) does not exist in the simulator.

The bottom line is, the airport exists in Navigraph’s database but, at this point, simply does not exist in most flight simulators.

Regards,

Tim

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I agree. Never would have thought there would be approaches and charts available for an airport that is still under construction or near completion.

Thanks for the follow-up and quick lesson.

  1. XP12
  2. HotStart Challenger
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Sadly there is no solution for you at the moment, as far as I can tell, as I couldn’t find any freeware or payware for this airport for X-Plane.

Regards,

Tim

P.S. my guess is, the airline(s) currently testing the airport infrastructure prior to its public inauguration must be Jeppesen customers.

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