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Posted onPost created on May 13 2014 20:23 ET by Steven Mathis

The FMC in my PMDG 737 NGX does not list any SIDS or STARS. I've downloaded the latest edition of data (1405) and my FMC recognizes it, but under SIDS or STARS, it lists 'NONE'. Also, when I select 'Chat' on FSINN, I get the following error message : 'Failed to create FSCopilotFSInn.Chat'. Has anybody ever encountered these errors?

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Posted onPost created on May 13 2014 22:14 ET by Matt Mulhall

The first one, make sure that you have a origin and destination in place before searching for SIDS and stars. Airports alone can have a lot so the FMC would never have a list of thousands of SIDS/STARS. You have to specify the airport and then choose either a departure or arrival from either airport. As for the second one I had the same problem and never fixed it. What I did was switch clients to vPilot when it came out. Hope I helped,
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Posted onPost created on May 13 2014 23:21 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

Steven, have you tried walking through the Tutorial #1 .PDF that PMDG provides with their aircraft? On my installation they are located with the manuals under (FSX)\PMDG\PMDG 737 NGX\Flight Manuals, where "(FSX)" is the folder where FSX is installed. It takes you through setting up the FMC for a short 1 hour flight - including SIDs and STARs. Are you seeing the SIDs and STARs when doing the tutorial?

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Posted onPost created on May 14 2014 05:16 ET by Steven Mathis

I walked through the tutorial, but when I got to the page which asks me to press the DEP key, under SIDS, it said 'NONE'.

Steven Mathis

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Posted onPost created on May 14 2014 07:37 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

Hmmm What is in your (Flight Simulator X Install Folder)\PMDG\NAVDATA folder? Mine looks like this:

Right now I'm more interested that all these files are there, rather than when they were last modified.

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Posted onPost created on May 14 2014 08:45 ET by Dirk Depelsemaeker

Aren't the SID/STARs in their own folder somewhere else? 1 file per airport, they're just .txt files? For FS9 anyway...

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Posted onPost created on May 14 2014 16:33 ET by Steven Mathis

Larry, I have all the files you have except for ARPT_RWY.dat. I downloaded it now several times, but I do not know why it is not being included. Navigraph always puts SidStars and NavData under PMDG, but installs this PMDG folder under NAVDATA, which is already under a folder called PMDG. For settings I use C:\FSX, but Navigraph installs it the same way every time, no matter what I use as a setting. Can you help?

Steven Mathis

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Posted onPost created on May 14 2014 16:49 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

You'll note that the Airport RWY file isn't part of the current AIRAC (take a look at the dates of the files)

I can't go to this link and check because Avsim.net is blocked at my work, but this sounds like it might help you:

forum.avsim.net/topic/424036-navigation-database-editing/

Lawrence Woodworth (DVA4229)

Posted onPost created on May 14 2014 23:43 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

OK, that link helped, but only to point me in the right direction. Look in (FSX)\PMDG\SIDSTARS. You should see a ton of text files with each one named as an airport ICAO code. The tutorial starts you at Gatwick (EGKK) so if you have an EGKK.txt file in this folder (there is one in mine), you'll see it contains all the fixes around Gatwick, followed by the SIDs, then the STARs for Gatwick.

If you're missing this folder, see if maybe it was accidentally dragged and dropped into another folder. The easiest way to check is to search the PMDG folder and its subdirectories for "SIDSTARS". If it finds one under another folder, you probably need to move it back directly under PMDG.

Lawrence Woodworth (DVA4229)

Posted onPost created on May 17 2014 07:00 ET by Steven Mathis

Larry, it took some manipulating, but I got it figured out. Navigraph placed an PMDG file with the sidstars and navdata files within the PMDG file which was already there. I just took those files out, put them in the master PMDG file and deleted the other one. What gets me is why does Navigraph produce an extra PMDG file, when I entered only C/FSX for file placement? Oh well, I got a lesson in Navigraph. Thanks for your help Larry. I really appreciate it.

Steven Mathis

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Posted onPost created on May 17 2014 12:41 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

Glad you found the problem! cool

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