Quote:| There are actually quite a few STARS and TRANS that I canīt find in my system. Such as OLM8 (I have OLM7) SONDR and HAWKS3. I havenīt changed my cycles from the original May05June01/11. |
It can make it difficult, especially when a tutorial is done for an earlier AIRAC cycle than the one currently in use (if you happen to do an update/or update monthly). But I can use FSC9 or PFPX to create a route similar to a tutorial, by using the same jetways, but with slightly different waypoints, due to changes.
Quote:| I then tried to make some other arrivals using other STARS and TRANS, deleting waypoints to smoothen up the approaches. But then I ended up with endless missing T/D issues :( |
There is a trick to removing waypoints and still being able to get the T/D, but it can take a lot of messing around with to get it. What I do is take note of all the waypoints in the STAR/TRANS and the APPROACH/TRANS, and all speed and altitude constraints that go with them. Then I select a runway (as in 34R, NOT ILS34R) and then manually enter the waypoints and any speed/altitude constraints, leaving out the ones I don't want to use. In the case of KSEA 34R, it could mean leaving out some waypoints from the APPROACH/TRANS IF the heading is going to require a 180
o turn. From memory, doing that allows me to have a T/D, but keeping that waypoint prior to the runway waypoint, (i.e.
CF34R before RW34R).
Quote:| Would it help to update the Navigraph base to a new Cycle? |
There are some differences between AIRAC cycle 1313 and 1105, but probably not a huge difference. As I said in a reply in the
777 Captain - Tech issues > FMC (incl LNAV, VNAV) forum:
Markoz wrote on Jan 1st, 2014 at 4:25am:
fuzzy11 wrote on Dec 31st, 2013 at 9:49pm:| How do you deal with having FSX nav data out of date versus FMC data being very up to date? |
It does make it hard because things do change over time. For example, YMML SID DOSEL8 used to be DOSEL7, but the waypoints in both are the same. Another thing I have noticed is that waypoints do occasionally have name changes, so the name of a waypoint in AIRAC 1212, might be different in AIRAC 1312. One other thing that I think happens, is that when a waypoint name changes, it may not be that it is changed, but that it is removed and replaced with different waypoint, and at different LON/LAT coordinates, than the old ones. |
So I wouldn't worry too much about changing it. At a cost of around 25 ($AU38) for 13 cycles ($AU2.93 per cycle), I consider it pretty cheap to update it monthly. If I was flying online for a Virtual Airline, it would make more sense to update it monthly, but I don't, so I have no real reason to update it, other than that I choose to do so.