NavData out of date and no updates?

[OldSubSailor]

So Laminar does not ever update this, ever; and the only way to do it is to buy a subscription? Why is this? 

[Pils]

5 hours ago, OldSubSailor said:

So Laminar does not ever update this, ever; and the only way to do it is to buy a subscription? Why is this? 

I think they might have updated it once during the life of X-Plane 11 after it was updated with 11's initial release, as they did again with 12's. Two reasons for this that I can think of: (a) they want the scenery that ships with the sim to match the navigation data, and they don't do major updates to the scenery very often; and (b) it presumably costs money to license the data from Navigraph for inclusion in the base sim, and those terms will be better with older cycles (so that Navigraph can sell subscriptions, obviously).

[OldSubSailor]

@PilsThank you for the reply. So Navigraph is like a sole-source supplier of navdata (globally) then and not something that USGS etc. supplies?

[OldSubSailor]

So to answer my own question. 

Well I did some more digging and it looks like that Navigraph is geared towards the flight simulator community  and they use Jeppesen as their Navdata source. Now that is pretty durn cool-I am impressed. I used Jep for my Pilot Class way back in the early 80s. I am retired and will have to save up for the annual fee if I decide to go that route. 

[mjrhealth]

On 9/9/2023 at 5:32 AM, OldSubSailor said:

@PilsThank you for the reply. So Navigraph is like a sole-source supplier of navdata (globally) then and not something that USGS etc. supplies?

No you can get it from Aerosoft as well, I get 3 updates a year. Navdata pro. Purchase as you need no subscription

Edited September 21, 2023 by mjrhealth