So where do I find addon which adds all important VFR-flying objects to the sim?ģ. which are important in VFR flying, am I correct? I also found that TruScenery has made Finland OSM but it is no longer available?Ģ. So this addon updates the gound scenery according to OSM data? But however, it does not include landmarks, masts or buildings etc. What is best scenery for Finland or Scandinavia? I found and it seems to be quite new. So far I prefer VFR flying in Finland and I am wondering is there any good addons to get to make VFR flying more realistic?ġ. So next step is to get familiar with all addons and to get the sim and environment look as realistic as possible. But now I am getting again interested in sims and installed X-Plane 11 and I am getting familiar with basic flying again. It is an old cycle from 2010 so it won't be totally up-to-date but it will have other things that the X-Plane's doesn't.It's been 15 years since I last time flew Flight Simulator 2004 and it seems that things have changed after that. So it really depends on how you fly and what you need navigraph for the latest real data, x-plane if you want to be totally in sync with the simulator or if you fly in the US where the data is generaly up-to-date.Īnd alternativelly there is the cycle 1006 from Navigraph which comes free with AirTrack. But this happens less often and tends to be only in small airfields. The only problems you may have are when a certain airport shows up in navigraph and doesn't exist in X-Plane or when an airport that exists in x-plane doesn't exist in navigraph.
This might not be so bad however, as you will have at least the the Navigraph data in one place (AirTrack) and if you need to go to a certain recent waypoint, you are bound to find it in the database so you can type it in the AirTrack's FMC and it will show you the way and will even send it back to X-Plane as a LATLON point if it doesn't exist there. So in the worst case, you may end up with one set of data in AirTrack (the Navigraph data) and another set in X-Plane (the X-Plane data). This totally depends on Navigraph and them making the data available for XP or not. You can import it to certain X-Plane third party packages like the CRJ-200 or UFMC, but you cannot directly to X-Plane. The disadvantages are: It isn't free (costs 20 credits, 2 euros I think), it only lasts for 4 cycles (112 days max), and there is currently no official supported way of importing this data into X-Plane. This can be critical if you fly online since controllers will tell you to go to one waypoint or perform a procedure and it can be a bit embarrassing if you don't know where it is and if it doesn't exist on the X-Plane data as it is often the case in Europe. The advantages are: You get the best data possible, with the latest navaids, waypoints, airways, SIDs, STARs and Approaches. So then you can download the data to AirTrack and you can use it on this web site with the flight planner. When you buy a cycle from them you are entitled to use it in as many of the supported products as you want in other words, if you buy cycle 1204 from NG you can download the token to use in AirTrack and you can download a package from their web site to use in a specific plane, say for example the CRJ-200 from Rollon.Ĭoncerning AirTrack you will get a token which you can then either insert in AirTrack when you select their cycle, or you can enter it on this web site which will automatically unlock the data to all your devices in one go (if you happen to have more than one). Note that you buy it from them at their web site. New data is made available every 28 days, just like in the real world, and their data is pretty much up-to-date. You purchase a Navigraph data cycle *at the Navigraph website* using their credits system. The disadvantages are that AirTrack (or the web site flight planner) will not be able to use Enroute Airways, SIDs, STARs and approaches when creating a flight plan, and that the data is not always so up-to-date or precise when flying in Europe or locations outside the US, even if you use their latest cycle which at the moment is 1204. The advantages of using this data are: It is free and you get exactly the same data on X-Plane as you get on AirTrack so everything is in sync, what you see is what you get. Likewise you can select it on the web site for web site related operations, like creating flight plans online. I've just updated this data set to the latest one available at It is totally free so you don't need to buy it. You can download this same data to AirTrack on the Navigation Data page by pressing DOWNLOAD. X-Plane AIRAC this is the same data that comes with X-Plane and that can be downloaded freely from There are two types of AIRAC with AirTrack: