Hmm, I just went and looked. Yes, there appears to be a bug in X-plane with something to do with selecting a start position close to a seaplane runway. You can manually select the start position on the left side of the screen by flicking the switch that goes from runway to ramp. Just don't select from the visual map. I will file this bug.
Not sure what to say about the lights as I see lights on my system.
My apologies on the runway lights. I forgot that I had Final Frontier scenery installed which includes PAKT and this is where the problem lies, not your scenery. Regards.
Using default scenery, aircraft.
When attempting to enter PAKT in FMS or G530/G1000 systems, regardless of plane (default or downloaded).
The same error message is displayed regardless of whether PAKT is the Destination or Origin Airport: "This flightplan contains an invalid destination airport: PAKT. Does this airport satisfy the requirements for this aircraft?"
This only happens in FMS or G530/G1000. The airport is listed on X-plane 11 airport selection menu (and will load), and the in-game ATC also will allow a flight plan to be filed.
I went into the Plane Maker and the runway length needed to appear on the map was already 0. It makes me think there must be some problem with the airport in the gateway.
The longest runway of this airport is water, therefore the airport is qualified as having water runways, and will only be shown to planes that are checked in Plane Maker to support landing on water.
The asphalt runway is shorter than the water runway, and ARINC424 only supports "longest runway surface" to qualify the type of runway surface available at an airport.
So, the data is technically correct in that the longest runway surface is water.
My suggestion is to make the water runway shorter, which you can obviously do since it hasn't got any threshold coordinates to be validated and the "runway" is also not visible in X-Plane. Just make it at least one meter shorter than the asphalt runway, and then the asphalt runway will take control of the airport.
There are no runway lights at night; only the taxiways are lit. Also, you cannot select any of the gate / ramp starting positions.
bkeith October 15, 2017 1:35 AM
Hmm, I just went and looked. Yes, there appears to be a bug in X-plane with something to do with selecting a start position close to a seaplane runway. You can manually select the start position on the left side of the screen by flicking the switch that goes from runway to ramp. Just don't select from the visual map. I will file this bug.
Not sure what to say about the lights as I see lights on my system.
Cheers,
Brendan
Gilandred October 15, 2017 10:12 AM
My apologies on the runway lights. I forgot that I had Final Frontier scenery installed which includes PAKT and this is where the problem lies, not your scenery. Regards.
Holding point of RW29 is not correct in this pack. Actually it is placed on RWY, should be on holding position of taxiway A.
bkeith July 6, 2018 7:40 AM
I am not sure what scenery you are using, but the most current version listed above is totally fine when I loaded and checked it.
An unknown user July 6, 2018 8:47 PM
Experienced the issue using 52541 (as shipped with XPL 11.20). After updating to 60810 everything is fina.
Using default scenery, aircraft.
When attempting to enter PAKT in FMS or G530/G1000 systems, regardless of plane (default or downloaded).
The same error message is displayed regardless of whether PAKT is the Destination or Origin Airport: "This flightplan contains an invalid destination airport: PAKT. Does this airport satisfy the requirements for this aircraft?"
This only happens in FMS or G530/G1000. The airport is listed on X-plane 11 airport selection menu (and will load), and the in-game ATC also will allow a flight plan to be filed.
I went into the Plane Maker and the runway length needed to appear on the map was already 0. It makes me think there must be some problem with the airport in the gateway.
Philipp Ringler March 2, 2021 7:03 AM
The longest runway of this airport is water, therefore the airport is qualified as having water runways, and will only be shown to planes that are checked in Plane Maker to support landing on water.
The asphalt runway is shorter than the water runway, and ARINC424 only supports "longest runway surface" to qualify the type of runway surface available at an airport.
So, the data is technically correct in that the longest runway surface is water.
My suggestion is to make the water runway shorter, which you can obviously do since it hasn't got any threshold coordinates to be validated and the "runway" is also not visible in X-Plane. Just make it at least one meter shorter than the asphalt runway, and then the asphalt runway will take control of the airport.
Julian Lockwood March 2, 2021 8:15 PM
Done. I’ve resubmitted PAKT to the Gateway with the water runway shortened to 2,000 meters.
there is waves for a boat ,but there is no boat.
Jan Vogel June 8, 2023 4:36 PM
Could not reproduce this on a vanilla installation.
Runway surface is unusable, abrupt surface elevation changes.
Jan Vogel March 27, 2024 6:13 AM
PAKT is fine after scenery recut of 12.0.9 - user error (by installing third party mesh)