There is misinformation on Batumi Runways

(DISCLAIMER: I HAVE THE LATEST AIRAC ON SIMBRIEF,NAVIGRAPH AND THE PLANE IT SELF)

I had a flight From LLBG to UGSB (Tel Aviv to Batumi) And my simbrief got my arrival runway in batumi as 30. I looked at the charts there are only arrivals for Runway 12 (First issue), I Was coming towards a decent to Batumi and in my MCDU it said that there are only LOC approaches for runway 12 and a visual for 30 so I set my approach to 30 All this time i used SayIntentions ATC, The controller told me my arrival runway is 31. I got confused so i told them there;s no such runway as 31 only 30 and 12 they said that the current active runway is 31. I got so confused i just left the sim and checked the runway numbers it said 31 and 13 so i researched more on Google and turns out Batumi Airport changed their runway numbers from 12 and 30 to 31 and 13 in 2020. So Turns out in the current AIRAC 2509 the latest one has the old runway numbers. So i wanted to report in this post about missing information about the runways. Thank you!!!

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Hi,
I have checked the official AIP from Georgia, and the latest release shows runway 12/30.

Google or any other 3rd party aviation web page is not always up-to-date; therefore, please don’t trust these pages too much.

To answer your second question about landing runway 30, not having charts doesn’t mean you can’t land there. I have also checked the AIP and can’t find any information here.

It is difficult to say if this is correct, but usually such information is part of the AIP.

So, our data and also the charts seem to be correct, and the scenery in the MSFS is outdated.

Cheers
Richard

Okay Yeah I see, Thanks for a quick response

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