I fly in and out of ORD a lot in real life and in the sim. I was wondering why is RC giving out vectors that bring me within 6-7 (sometimes less) miles of airport proximity at 7000ft before it asks to usually descend to 4000 and change heading depending on the assigned runway? I've noticed this on several approaches to different airports too. For example, on the short KSTL-KORD flight, I'm cleared to runway 28 (old 27L) at ORD by approach, RC asks to descend to seven thousand, so I'm at the FL7000 for a few minutes and all of a sudden I find myself almost over runway 4R before I'm asked to FL4000 and heading 090, after that the vectoring is pretty much spot on, other than flying right above MDW.How does this work?

I fly in and out of ORD a lot in real life and in the sim. I was wondering why is RC giving out vectors that bring me within 6-7 (sometimes less) miles of airport proximity at 7000ft before it asks to usually descend to 4000 and change heading depending on the assigned runway? I've noticed this on several approaches to different airports too. For example, on the short KSTL-KORD flight, I'm cleared to runway 28 (old 27L) at ORD by approach, RC asks to descend to seven thousand, so I'm at the FL7000 for a few minutes and all of a sudden I find myself almost over runway 4R before I'm asked to FL4000 and heading 090, after that the vectoring is pretty much spot on, other than flying right above MDW.How does this work?

i'm not sure i understand. are you 7000 on downwind? that sounds right. 4000 sounds right maybe for base.you shouldn't be overflying the airport, so i don't know what is going on with that.if you can duplicate the problem, make a log, instructions pinned to the top of the forum. be sure to click the debug button before loading the .plnthen zip up the file, and send it to me, with a description of the problem.