ONS/FMC database upgrades

[Michael Natale]

I am finding myself flying the F1 Super 80 (not pro) and the Level-D 763 quite a bit (FS9 Ver). I recently flew to TJSJ from JFK and had a hard time getting the Flightplan into my Level D. It didn't seem to want to exexpt any waypoints outside of Domestic Airspace. The rest were not a problem. I occasionally find myself having to add waypoints to the Super 80 ONS by LAT/LONG as well becasue it seems to have an outdated database, particularly with newer SID/STARs. I absolutley love both of these aircraft and would like to update the databases. Can anyone recomend a method to do this? Let me also say that I understand the Super 80 ONS does not have a database, it seems to reject certain newer waypoints entered via simroute files though?

Thanks,
Mike

[Harold Henderson]

In the S80, you can manually enter waypoints and lat/longs, so you can enter any waypoint on Earth - except maybe N/S poles - haven't tried that.

[Robert Shepherd]

I use FSBuild and use the 'Export To' feature to automatically export the plan to FSX after it's generated. But you have to also remember to go into your My Docs -> Flight Simulator X folder and rename the plan to the standard M-80 ONS format of, for example, KDFW-KJFK-100. (You have to have that last three digit flight number in there).
As long as you have FSBuild updated with their AIRACS database, which they provide freely on their site, you will always have a plan with current waypoints to load into your ONS database...

The only problem is that FSBuild is not freeware; but it's a very nice investment especially for planes like the MD-80 Classic and the CLS products where you need to import flight plans from Flight Simlulator. And for creating your flight plans in general...

[Michael Natale]

Thanks for the advice. I'll check those references out.