Hi folks...I hope someone can give some clues here...I've been trying to land at Innsbruck, Austria (default airport, with FSGenesis mesh), using a variety of aircraft...IFDG A320, Kittyhawk 737-800, etc. Everything's fine until I get to start the turn into the airport, runway 26, when ATC is asking for a visual, but has me at 10,000ft up until aprox 8 miles out. Only then does it ask to descend to 3900ft....far too high at that range, and so it's not possible to land! When requesting a go-around, ATC happily steers you straight into a mountain-side...not very friendly!! ;)This is all with a standard IFR flight filed through FS9's flight planner, and using ATC to guide.Short of breaking-off IFR and 'chancing it' with a VFR landing, and hoping that I can get one of these birds to handle like a Spitfire in order to zoom down the the mountain face below me in order to reach the desired approach altitude and direction, is there anything that I can do, that I'm maybe missing, etc??? Even dropping at 2500ft p/m doesn't get me anywhere close...I cruise over Innsbruck at 6000ft using ATC guidance!! And still wind-up in the face of a mountain as it tries to turn me around for a re-try, whilst I'm flying along a narrow valley!!!I know it can be done! I've seen photo's of 737's, and even 767's there... It's such a beautiful place, and I'd love to land there for a quick holiday (!!!)Flying out is no problem...runway 8 and ATC steers me to the right, straight through a narrow gap between the mountains, and up and out into southern Germany with no problems at all...though I must say, it's quite un-nerving when you fly it 'cause all you see is mountains coming at you at 240kts, but then you pop out into open air and can quite literally wipe the sweat from your forehead as you see the Alps receeding below you!!

Go to:http://www.dmcity.com/slarty/narr/128.htmand read the Notam towards the end.Hope this helps.Jozef http://pluizig.ath.cx/signature.jpg

Here is a full tutorial with real charts included. Follow this rather than the Flight Sim ATC. By the way, I suggest you print this out first and read it over at least once before flying. Tutorial is set up for FS2000 but files work in FS2002. I have not tried it in FS2004. Also, the navaid fixes and scenery updates are for FS2000. I would just suggest you use for favorite plane and the scenery you have installed.http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/howto/inns/inns.htmHave fun...and if you like this one try the tutorial on Madeira.Mark.

Hello!I had the same experience last night, while flying an IFR filed flight from KMIA to SVMI. Everything was pretty normal until I started noticing that we were 16nm from the field and still at 8200ft. It wasn't until I was lined up on final and about 10nm that the controllers cleared to "Dive Bomb" to runway 28.Sincerely,Dennis D. Mullert

MS ATC is still not capable of vectoring you reasonably to an aiport with a lot of high altitude terrain around it. All I can say is get some decent approach charts (a lot of them are freely available as pdf) or buy Simcharts and fly the approaches as published.Alex

Great point Alex.Most of the charts are available through Vatsim and its affiliates. www.vatsim.net

Ah, Jozef. That narrative brings back fond memories! :-cool Mike

Many thanks for the suggestions folks....I'll give 'em a try and see how I get on ;)

My 2 cents, and I agree with everyone here that you should get the approach plates and fly the published approach. The Fs2004 Gps has the ability to select and load most published ILS approaches, missed approaches anh holds into your flight plan. Very cool. E-mail me, and I'll send you a few screenshots of my approach in a 767-300. http://www.2decker.com/media/solent1-2.JPGAlex ChristoffN562ZBaltimore, MD