XSG-11502

Airport won't be allowed as a valid entry for any FMS or GPS flight systems. It registers "Invalid Entry,"

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Airport Metadata Issue

Reported by:
 abqmtl on March 1, 2021 11:19 PM

Assigned to:
 Gateway Community

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.

Airport Identifier PAKT