Nav database update

[Icarus747]

It happened again!  For the THIRD time now, I have purchased the NAV update and it does not include the VOR 13 L/R approach into KJFK... known as the Canarsie approach.  Nor does it allow you to select runway 31L on the Kennedy departure, so you can't do the Canarsie climb.  I know this is NOT your fault Hardy, but perhaps you could put me in contact with someone from NAVBLUE?  If pro's all over the world are using their database I find it odd the procedures above are not in it.  Anybody have any thoughts?  Yes, I can build them, but it's a colossal waste of time.

[Hardy Heinlin]

I'll ask them. But whatever the result will be, it won't change before the next nav update in March 2019.

Can you tell me the official identifiers of the missing SIDs/STARs/approaches at KJFK?

[Icarus747]

VOR or GPS 13L/R, and for whatever reason the box won't let you take the KENNEDY 4 (JFK4.JFK) if using runways 31L or R.  So you can't utilize the Idlewild, Breezy Point or Canarsie climb.

They may have a reason.

Good luck, and thank you! 

[Hardy Heinlin]

Just got a reply from Navblue. (Mailed them yesterday.)

VOR (or GPS) approaches KJFK runway 13L/R have now been added to cycle 1902 -- as tailored procedures. Visual procedures are only added as tailored upon request. And it looks like my inquiry has been considered a request :-)  Whether this addition now affects just my database package or the packages of all their customers -- I don't know.

I guess this rule has been introduced when Navblue took over Navtech.


|-|ardy