Previous years AIRAC Charts

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When I purchase Navigraph Charts, will I be able to view charts for the previous AIRAC years. I remodel FS2004 and still enjoy flying the B727, B707, and DC-7. Looking for VORs, NDBs, and ILS approach charts for the year 2004 or later. Are those charts available ?

Thanks for your reply. It would help my decision to purchase.

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Hi,

No, sorry. We don’t offer any historic charts, only current charts.

Regards,

Stephen

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Hi Stephen,

I understand you do not offer historic charts. Let’s for a moment entertain the idea of offering datasets from 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 or another set of years within the Navigraph subscription. What would it take to make them available? I’m assuming it would require a license to those datasets; how about technical requirements? I assume a drop down menu to select current or historical AIRAC? If this seems like an extra cost, would it make sense to offer additional subscription level for such datasets?

The reason I wonder if Navigraph would consider adding historic charts, because that might setup a baseline reference for scenery developers, as well as for simmers. Again it is an idea, and at least it is worth entertaining.

Thank you for consideration, and hopefully a response.

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By the way, I have a (dirty) solution to reverse back into the navigation places, the outdated and removed radio navigation aids.
Firstly, you need bash. If you are under MacOS or Linux, no issue. If you are using Windows, the easyest way to have a bash + GNU utils is by downloading the self contained « CMDer » portable package:

Then, you will have to do two things:

  • run a cmd, type « bash » in it to start the bash shell, then copy both the current airac, and an outdated airac nav data from X-Plane 11, for instance (outdated since 2018):

cd
egrep “NDB|VOR|DME” “/c/Program Files/X-Plane-11/Resources/default data/earth_nav.dat” > old_airac.dat
egrep “NDB|VOR|DME” “/c/Program Files/X-Plane-11/Resources/Custom Data/earth_nav.dat” > new_airac.dat

And eventually, put the differences in a user_nav.dat at the right place:

diff old_airac.dat new_airac.dat | cut -d " " -f 2- > "/c/Program Files/X-Plane 12/Custom Data/user_nav.dat

And, you have, using XP11 datas, a list of 2018 VOR, DME, VOR/DME, NDB and associated ILS, put in place, within the new AIRAC.

EDIT: because of the file format, you may need some more customization:

( echo “I”; echo “1150 Version - data cycle 1802 custom, metadata NavXP1150. 2025 Wayback Machine” ; (diff old_airac.dat new_airac.dat | cut -d " " -f 2-) ; echo “99” ) > "/c/Program Files/X-Plane 12/Custom Data/user_nav.dat

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