Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
On the other hand....what have we become when we can't navigate to.. and fly and approach to a airport that is not in our FMS?
Wasn't the issue--- apparently the ops specs say that you can only manually enter an airport into the fms if you are in the US, and foreign airports must be in the fms. The problem was they were departing from a foreign airport and landing in a foreign airport with a foreign alternate that was not in the fms.
The article in AIN covers this.