SIMCONNECT_DATA_FACILITY_AIRPORT does not contain Region

Edited: 20250131

Version: SDK 1.1.2 2024 MSFS2024 V1.2.11

Frequency: Always

Severity: High → Annoyance

Context: SIMCONNECT_DATA_FACILITY_AIRPORT does not contain Region code

Attachments: N/A, but can be provided upon request

Bug description:

SIMCONNECT_DATA_FACILITY_AIRPORT does not contain the Regiont code, the string is empty.
at least using c# interface for both RequestFacilitiesList or RequestFacilitiesList_EX1

I also looked at the raw bytes returned in entries and no Region code was found at other locations

Repro: Issue request and review the resulting data

As the FacilityData query requires a Region code this adds quite a workload and potential errors at customer site when one wants to use these features.
Hence impact is considered High

Seems not to be required for airports (according to SDK Doc)

BTW:
VOR, NDB, WAYPOINT LISTs provide the Region code
Did not check with MSFS2020 so far, if done I’ll post it here

Hello @bm98

You don’t have the region for any of the returned entries or only for some of them?
Airports seem to be fine for me, but this request also returns heliports on MSFS 2024 and they don’t seem to have region defined.

Regards,
Sylvain

Indeed some have, some don’t but I did not look for a pattern yet.
Would it be usefull information?

Only a subset of airports have the region code defined. The information is not available for those without IFR navigation data. It could also be lost in cases where the “airport” containing the navigation data is deleted by an airport scenery.

That’s right. Some light aviation airdromes that are not coming from AIRAC data but are aggregated from other sources are missing this information as well.

Closing this as by design as the Facilities API is not to blame here and the issue with airport and heliport missing a region code comes from the navigation data itself.

Regards,
Sylvain