February 17, 201115 yr Hi All,I'm a RC newbie. I was on an IFR flight KPDX - KYKM. All was fine cruise altitude of 15,000ft. Then RC tells me to decent to 9,000 about 60 miles out for beginning of approach. Once at 9,000 I look out the window and I'm about to experience CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain) into Mt. Rainier which peaks around 12,000 feet. :( My request for higher altitude was denied :( and I deviated from my assigned altitute to 12,000 to barely pass over Mt. Rainer, and approach went smoothly from there on. My FSX generated route was via V448 which goes over the top of Mt. Rainier never near the peak at 15,000 ft.Any ideas how to prevent RC induced CFIT? I fly mostly in the Western states so there are lots of Mt's and Valley'sThanks,BillyBob BillyBob David M. Edwards Dell Alienware Area 51-R5: Intel Core i9 7980XE (18-Core Central Processing Unit [C.P.U.]), 64 Gigabytes (GB) of Dual Channel HyperX DDR4 at 2,904MHZ, 2X Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080Ti (11GB GDDR5X, each) in Scalable Link Interface (S.L.I.) or parallel configuration, 1,500 Watt power supply, 3x Solid State Drives (S.S.D.), Track Infrared (I.R.) 5 head tracking head gear and receiver (Natural Point, Corvallis, OR. United States of America [U.S.A.]) and a Dell 4K Ultrasharp 32 inch monitor. Lockheed Martin Prepar 3D version 4.4 (P3Dv4.4), Addons And Updates GALORE! KPDX (Portland, OR), KHIO (Hillsboro, OR) United States of America, Planet Earth..
February 17, 201115 yr In RC4.3, Click on the Controller Info button and select the NOTAM button for wherever you are going to be flying in mountainous areas. So, if you depart a mountainous area, use the NOTAM in the departure column. If you are flying into a mountainous destination, click the destination NOTAM button. If both sides are mountainous, then click both!!For departure, the controller will tell you that you are reponsible for terrain clearance and will ask you when you are back on course.For arrival, the controller will advise you that you are responsible for terrain clearance, and RC will will give you an option to tell the controller that his instructions don't work with you (unable) and he will then tell you to try to get it done whenever it is safe. This will only work if OTTO does not have the comms (you must be controlling the radios).RC does not know terrain...its up to you.D Devin CYOW
February 18, 201115 yr Author Great! Thanks!BB BillyBob David M. Edwards Dell Alienware Area 51-R5: Intel Core i9 7980XE (18-Core Central Processing Unit [C.P.U.]), 64 Gigabytes (GB) of Dual Channel HyperX DDR4 at 2,904MHZ, 2X Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080Ti (11GB GDDR5X, each) in Scalable Link Interface (S.L.I.) or parallel configuration, 1,500 Watt power supply, 3x Solid State Drives (S.S.D.), Track Infrared (I.R.) 5 head tracking head gear and receiver (Natural Point, Corvallis, OR. United States of America [U.S.A.]) and a Dell 4K Ultrasharp 32 inch monitor. Lockheed Martin Prepar 3D version 4.4 (P3Dv4.4), Addons And Updates GALORE! KPDX (Portland, OR), KHIO (Hillsboro, OR) United States of America, Planet Earth..
February 18, 201115 yr Commercial Member Great! Thanks!BBpage 105, tutorials 4, 6, 7 and 8 JD Read my blog
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