A320 FMGC nav database

[Superpilot]

Is the nav database on the A320 FMGC customised to company specification with the ability to literally select which airports you'd like in the database? or split by country/region with everyone getting all the performance factored airports available to them within that particular country/region?

I ask because at the last operator I flew with, we constantly experienced missing airports (sometimes even major ones!) in a manner which followed no sensible logic. I.e. lesser airports within a 50 miles radius within the same country were in the database.

Thanks

[PT6A]

The short answer is it depends...

You can buy a "standard" regional database, or you can have a company specific one... Which may have things such as EOSIDs, company routes, company procedures etc.

Who was the NavData supplier?

The big ones are Lido, Jeppesen and EAG/Navtech... Not sure of any others?

[Superpilot]

Thanks, no idea who the supplier was. Judging by what was missing sometimes, I would hazard a guess it was ALDI :\

Our database barely contained the airports we flew into (OK an exaggeration, maybe 1 out of 4 were missing) let alone EOSIDs, routes, company procs etc.