Hi all, hope your all well,I enjoy flying FS2004 IFR with ATC, but sometimes its a little annoying. When im flying in say the PSS A330 / or the PMDG 737NG (both wondrfull planes) I would really like to fly the plan I have created, in FSBuild, but ATC will vector me away from it when im near the airport, which is no problem. The problem is, if I dont follow ATC the flight is cancelled, and then I cant seem to contact the Destination airport via the radios to find out the active landing runway, and to tell them of my intentions to land untill Im like 20 miles out, and its too late to change the runway if I have choosen the wrong one. I use FSNAV but it gives me so many differnt Freq to select for the tower that it becomes confusing, and when i dial them in I am never abel to contact the destination airport. I know there is a Maximun distance, but surley 50Miles is enough to tune to a selected tower.Can anybody help me with this? I will still file the plan to get take off clearence, and follow the ATC climb, but then I will cancel IFR and Get Flight Following. Then once Im say within 50-100 miles of the airport I would like to be able to contact it and get the landing runway/s etc.I know I can select airport from list, but that dosent leave you much room to chage stuff.Thanks for any helpJason

You can usually pick up the ATIS signal out 50 or so miles from the airport. It will give you wind direction andtell you which runway(s) are in use. But, to be "as real as it gets," wouldn't you want to follow ATC's direction? Although I've never tried it, I believe that in FS2004, you can request an arrival procedure (STAR) from the controllers.Because I have lots of AI traffic configured, I let ATC sequence my arrival. It works pretty well, especially at airports with multiple runways which support concurrent approachs and landings. I've only had to go around a couple of times. R-

ATIS for your destination airport will give you the normal landing runway assignments. Good luck.sj