I am a fairly new user. On my most recent flights, ATC gives me a heading, I dial it into autopilot and fly the heading. Then, even though I am flying the heading, it both tells me I am off course (I am not) and then tells me to fly the heading I am already flying, over and over and over again.Sometimes it likes to combine the above with an instruction to fly the heading I'm on (that it doesn't see me on anyway) and to go direct when able even though the heading that I am on is the direct FMC heading.Is it me?

I am a fairly new user. On my most recent flights, ATC gives me a heading, I dial it into autopilot and fly the heading. Then, even though I am flying the heading, it both tells me I am off course (I am not) and then tells me to fly the heading I am already flying, over and over and over again.Sometimes it likes to combine the above with an instruction to fly the heading I'm on (that it doesn't see me on anyway) and to go direct when able even though the heading that I am on is the direct FMC heading.Is it me?

i would need to see a log, to find out what is going wrong on your flight. details pinned to the top of the forum on how to make one. make sure you click debug BEFORE you load the .plnduplicate the problem, send the log to [email protected] and i'll take a lookjd

This may or may not help, i am a new user also and had a similar problem, i was tracking off info on a MFD display on my aircraft and i was getting repeated intsructions to stay on course, after a while i twigged and flew it off the course that RC provides and have never had that problem since.Buuut i have had another little problem and i am sure it is me but cannot work it out, have had to abort two flights after the controller was repeatedly telling me to maintane 120, this went on forever, so i just couldnt stand him any more and aborted the flight. Having thought about it i was using the 29.92, as i was flying under 150 so i changed it to QNH. Have flown once since with no problem. (Yes i know changing the setting should not make any difference)Whilst the ATC was giving me a gob full i was checking pressure and although i hate pressing "B" i did so many times and also veryifying altitude with other sources like FSFlightkeeper. I am sure i am doing something wrong but i dont know what it is.In the short time i have had RC i am over the moon with it and enjoying it very much. Pete

The "B" key is hard coded in FS to use an FAA fixed transition level of 18,000 feet. That won't work in other areas where the transition level is airport\geographically dependent.If the RC controller states to climb or descend to a flight level then you need the standard altitude pressure QNH of 29.92 in. or 1013 mb set in your altimeter. If the controller states to climb or descend to an altitude in feet then you need to have your altimeter set to local pressure.As far as course heading be sure in FS realism settings instrument readouts are set to magnetic.If you have both FS9 and FSX installed you should run the FS registry fixer freeware available from the library download center at flight1.com. If the registry is wrong you could be getting the incorrect location and magnetic deviation information if both versions of FS are installed.If told to resume your own navigation then you proceed from your present position to the next waypoint, not return to your original flightpath. The next waypoint and heading to it are displayed in the RC window.See if some of this helps.

This may or may not help, i am a new user also and had a similar problem, i was tracking off info on a MFD display on my aircraft and i was getting repeated intsructions to stay on course, after a while i twigged and flew it off the course that RC provides and have never had that problem since.Buuut i have had another little problem and i am sure it is me but cannot work it out, have had to abort two flights after the controller was repeatedly telling me to maintane 120, this went on forever, so i just couldnt stand him any more and aborted the flight. Having thought about it i was using the 29.92, as i was flying under 150 so i changed it to QNH. Have flown once since with no problem. (Yes i know changing the setting should not make any difference)Whilst the ATC was giving me a gob full i was checking pressure and although i hate pressing "B" i did so many times and also veryifying altitude with other sources like FSFlightkeeper. I am sure i am doing something wrong but i dont know what it is.In the short time i have had RC i am over the moon with it and enjoying it very much. Pete

remember, FL120 is not the same as 12000. if you are told to maintain FL120, the altimeter needs to be set to 29.92, and don't hit the "B" key. if you are told to maintain 12000, be sure the altimeter is set to the local pressure.The "B" key is NOT your friend.as ron says, if you are told to "resume own navigation", that means to fly direct your next checkpoint. not to twist your plane around to join some FMC line thingy (can you tell i'm not a FMC lover?). if you are told to fly heading 190, fly heading 190, not 240 to join a 190 radial to your next checkpoint.jd

Hi JD, Ronzie, thanks very much for the reply, yes i do understand 29.92 and the light levels i was flying at 12,000 but as ATC kept insisting that i maintain 12,000 although after every check possible i was just in desperation trying different things. As for the FMC i concur with you completely, my flight plan is displayed but i now fly by the heading control or manually following RC commands and so far it is working okay.Anyway as far as realism is concerned i always remember i am using a sim and can walk away from my errors, and although i try to be as real as possible, i try to keep it fun. computers being computers do strange things here and there and sometimes effect the most stable of programs, otherwise you wouldnt ask people to send in logs here and there.I recently bought a new computer just for FSX middle range Dell 10 gig of ram but i made an error on the type of video card so i will have to try and fix it with time anyway my point is that at the start frame rates at 75 to over 100, a few tweaks by me after adding traffic and a few other programs, and so on and i was getting 3-5 fps haha just unusable, i have had to backtrack a bit, so i have added a frame hungry but great aircraft from Flight1, and of course RC, now i have set my frame rate at 35 and it seems to hitting that most of the time. Now i know on my puter, RC did not have any effect on frame rate that i could detect and even if it did i would live with it as it is a great program that i now could not do with out. The moral here is " dont let me tweak your computer" :( , I am lucky i live alone and fly a lot of hours and everytime i do something silly in flight sim, or fiddling with my computer i am happy for the experiance, i learn something everyday. hopefully.

Are you sure you didn't miss a waypoint? It sure sounds like you might have missed one and your FMC didn't...Is the FMC way point the same one in your RC window?

I'm with Jim on this one ...this has happened to me a couple of times ... looks like you missed a waypoint ... simple way to fix is to request to fly 'direct' to a waypoint in RC (preferably the next waypoint scheduled in your FMC) ... that'll keep the controller from barking at you :(