AIRAC and NAV data updates
The aviation community publishes regular updates to aeronautical data (airports, procedures, stands, etc.) in a coordinated fashion every 28 days on a Thursday. The schedule is available at Eurocontrol.
At VATGER, we closely follow this schedule to bring updates to the navigation data, as well as other improvements to the controller setups every month, sometimes also out of schedule if important issues need to be fixed.
In order to ensure that all controllers have the same, correct and up-to-date information available which in turn enables the enjoyment of your colleagues and pilots, it is important to keep your setup maintained! We consider this to be part of the local procedures you are required to follow as per the VATSIM CoC.
To help you know when to update, all three FIRs publish updates to the sector files here:
In addition, the central German NAV department maintains a forums presence where country-wide updates are posted.
We strongly suggest you watch (German: "Beobachten") the respective threads (upper right corner) and enable email notifications to get notified about updates you are expected to perform. Refer to the respective FIR documentation in this knowledge base section for further details about updating.
If you encounter any issues, all FIRs also maintain issue reporting threads: