Pilots: We (at KSLC) have had a significant amount of aircraft this year cut HINKY out of their routing and go straight to IRRON after BOOOT. (image attached)
We use to think that pilots just willingly being negligent but given the amount of times this has happened, I wonder if it is problem with NAVDATA in some sims.
Could I get some pilots here to test FSX, P3D, X-plane 11, and then NAVIGRAPH to make sure HINKY is programmed into the route and then furthermore, could you fly the SKEES arrival and see if the FMS decides to treat HINKY as a Fly-By waypoint?
A normal clearance from ATC would happen when you are around BEARR and it would be “Descend via the SKEES5 arrival. At IRRON, cleared ILS RWY 16L Approach”.
Please send an email to ZLC-DATM@VATUSA.NET with your results.
If this ends up not being a sim issue or NAVDATA issue, this this a big problem in this area that I would hope that VAs that fly in/out of KSLC would bring light to this situation... we NEED you to fly to HINKY unless we give you a shortcut for many reason and one of them being separation... so like... the one thing we are responsible for haha!
