Hi Chaps. I'm struggling with the FMC - particularly SIDS. I have downloaded Terry Yinglings latest TP file - 0810 - for some reason, the FMC dep/arr page has difficulty recognising both rwy and sid. For example, departing manchester EGCC, I can select rwy23R or 05L, but if I do the SID list is empty. Alternatively, I can select the SID I want to use, but not the rwy I want to start from. Any ideas?

This is a superb aircraft... it is let down by the FMC and the quality of the data available for it. All the other "issues" I can live with for the time being, but if I can't program the FMC to fly real-world-esque departures and arrivals, its not much use in IFR conditions. Can we make sorting the FMC out our first priority please?

The only way I get the FMC to function correctly is to enter in all waypoints, VORs, NDBs,etc manually. I first plan a flight via FS Navigator, export to FS9,etc. I print out the flight plan from FS Nav so that I can have all of the waypoints available. Sometimes the FMC doesn't recognize certain waypoints, especially on departure, but I improvise on the departures by seeing what waypoints are showing on the cockpit nav screen. I will enter those from the departure runway into the FMC...in order to get a smoother transition on departure of course.

I will save any of the entered flight plans in the FMC for future use. Since I don't use FS Build, I have to manually entere everything. It is true that the FS9 .pln plans don't agree with CS's FMC. All lat/long's may be correct but the distances are always 8nm between each one in the FMC.

The FMC will not recognize ANY fixes from FS NAV like Fix 01, Fix02,etc, so I ignore those and find any compulsary reporting points like BADGER, HANRY, DUGGS, TOU15,etc. CS's FMC seems to recognize those formats. I've managed several successful flights

Navdata team has just informed us that the data first release candidate is nearly ready for testing. Depending on the tests results we expect public release of the navdata starting with 0901 or 0902. Thank you for your patience.

That is a verry good new !! Thanks !

Wait for the introduction of the Navigraph's database. CS work with Navigraph for that and they will be available in few weeks.

All the best

Hi all,

Quick question : where do I have to install the CaptSim_Procedure_0901?

Thank,
Remy

I thought I read somewhere on here there would be a Captiansim Package on Navigraph for 0901, but alas, it does not appear to be there.