I hate to say it Fishu but you have been contradicted by many professionals producing aircraft for FSX and defending the position of Flight1. Flight1 says they will support SIDS/STARS. I believe the best thing supporters/users could do if the Mustang is a favorite is to fly it and give bug reports and if after that you are not happy then dont support a particular vendor. The way 'the ten' went off was as if they have a personal vendetta against Flight1 and that wont fly.
I'm sorry for the insult but I hate it when my needs are ignored and downplayed as rubbish. You may like it, but it's useless to tell me to like it when I don't get an essential feature with it. I don't know whether you fly offline or online, but I fly exclusively online if I'm not training for a new aircraft and up to date navigational data helps alot - helps me as a pilot and the ATC trying to figure out which kind of route I'm flying. ATC doesn't have years old data, so it's useless to say you're flying via route that no longer exists and the ATC has never heard about. Thanks to the updates for ATC sectors and plane addons I've as the ATC only very rarely ran across pilots with this problem. Majority of people flying online are using up to date data - the rest are improvising. I don't like to improvise, especially if I've paid for a highly detailed aircraft.
I tried to access a forum thread where a developer arrogantly denies the possibility to update the navdata, downplaying the importance of the feature, but they have since then moved the thread into the members only area (
http://mustang.flight1.net/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=178).
I suppose you meant the professionals in this thread:
http://mustang.flight1.net/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=294Let's be short about it:
1) You asked whether SIDSTAR procedures will exists in the product, which is slightly off the point I was making and somewhat irrelevant to the issue I'm having with it
- I'm not so worried of SIDSTARs as for up to date navigational data (RNAV SIDSTARs can be programmed as part of the route if the proper navigational aids exists in the nav data; of course properly implemented SIDSTARs are much more helpful if you need to change it in-flight to another one), which includes fixes, NDB and VOR beacons, airways, runways and airports.
- You asked whether it SIDSTARs will exist, but you did not ask whether those will be updated. SIDSTARs without updates are useless in many airports. What's surprising to me is that it appears from the thread as if SIDSTARs are not already included in the old navigational database that they've included into the product. I thought they had included SIDSTARs into the data already and not just the support for it(!).
2) The answers do not state anywhere that you will be able to update any of it as new ones are published elsewhere.
So that changes nothing of what I've been trying to say here.
In many other commercial products SIDSTARs are not automatically updated with each AIRAC update and are often updated individually by random enthusiastics (
http://www.navdata.at). Although Navigraph (
http://www.navigraph.com) has lately began to offer up to date SIDSTARs included with the AIRAC updates for some of the addons. Although user made sidstars from Navdata are often more accurate than the generated files.
