I didn't write down what fix types I was using before starting
my experimentation and as a result I couldn't find any combination
which would give me SACRI and still be below the 32k limit. (I found
SACRI in the AOPA flight planner, and both my Garmin and Lowrance
databases have it, but after checking I couldn't find it on the VFR or
IFR charts.)

Per your suggestion I dropped all of the fix types and went
to VFR/IFR/High-IFR, got all of my fixes back, and had enough room to
put private airports and NDBs back into the database (about 25,500
waypoints, almost 5000 less than I had before). I had dropped the
private airports and NDBs when I started flying IFR and had to add all
of those fixes.

To answer your original question, I think the chart method of
selecting fixes is much better than the type selection method. I now
have private airports which gives CoPilot a leg up over my expensive
GPSs which don't.



On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:31:04 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, ArtP said:
I tried just using the IFR/VFR chart symbols. The good news is
my database went from 30,000 records to 15,000. The bad news is that
every one of my routes now has missing waypoints. It seems that many
of the IFR intersections are missing (ie. SACRI which is the
intersection of EMI/272 and ENO/318).

Both the FAA data and the DAFIF say that SACRI is only on the high
altitude en-route chart. Try selecting high altitude en-route.