If you've tried to do much proper navigation while flying in X-Plane you'll soon discover that the navdata that comes with X-Plane sucks, especially in Asia. In some countries (particularly Indonesia) the ICAO codes for most of the airports have changed over the last few years.
Jul 28, 2017 Thanks to hard work by the community of artists on the X-Plane Scenery Gateway, X-Plane 11.05 will have detailed scenery for most of the world's major airports. As i understand, add-ons like X-Life are needing navdata and i would also like to update the navdata of the XP default gps. Do i need to buy navdata or is there free - of course not the most current - navdata for X-Plane/X-life?
There are also misplaced beacons, VORs that have their range set too short so you lose signal before you can find the next navaid. And most importantly, if you try to use current airport charts, you'll find that most of the time the RNAV waypoints specified don't exist. Once you've subscribed, you can download the data files. There is an option to download and install the data files 'Manually' from the Navigraph website, in which case you get a.zip file, and just need to extract these into your X-Plane folder, as the paths are usually set up correctly. Another way, which is what I went with, was to install the Navigraph Data Manager, which is an application (32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu and Fedora are supported).
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