Hey Guys,

Just a quick question.... I am looking to head out on a test flight with RC4 - my go to ATC program from GA aircraft and I will be taking off from Blackpool (EGNH) and heading up and around Scotland and the north-east and then returning back to EGNH starting under IFR.

My question is will RC4 behave properly and vector me onto the 'filed' route, or will it copy the default and see that I'm close to my destination and vector me straight back?

Thoughts?

35 minutes ago, VirtualPilot1460 said:

Hey Guys,

Just a quick question.... I am looking to head out on a test flight with RC4 - my go to ATC program from GA aircraft and I will be taking off from Blackpool (EGNH) and heading up and around Scotland and the north-east and then returning back to EGNH starting under IFR.

My question is will RC4 behave properly and vector me onto the 'filed' route, or will it copy the default and see that I'm close to my destination and vector me straight back?

Thoughts?

RC4 requires a flight plan that contains a departure airport, waypoints and an arrival airport. You cannot have multiple airports. One plan for the outbound, another for the return.

5 hours ago, VirtualPilot1460 said:

Hey Guys,

Just a quick question.... I am looking to head out on a test flight with RC4 - my go to ATC program from GA aircraft and I will be taking off from Blackpool (EGNH) and heading up and around Scotland and the north-east and then returning back to EGNH starting under IFR.

My question is will RC4 behave properly and vector me onto the 'filed' route, or will it copy the default and see that I'm close to my destination and vector me straight back?

Thoughts?

Hi,

It seems to me that what you want to do is called a "Round Robin" in RC4. Take a look at page 215 of the RCV4 manual, there is a tuto. It is perfectly described....

From the manuel: "Round Robin"

"A Round Robin simply means you depart from and return to the same airport. You saw a (somewhat complicated) way of doing this in tutorial #4. You can also “plan” such a flight, as we did here. Set checkpoints along any route you wish to fly. A Round Robin in RC is not VFR. You need to fly the filed route and get credit for every filed checkpoint."

Richard

Edited October 29, 20196 yr by DrumsArt

5 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

RC4 requires a flight plan that contains a departure airport, waypoints and an arrival airport. You cannot have multiple airports. One plan for the outbound, another for the return.

Hi Ray,

I understand that Nathan wants to take off, make a circuit by following waypoints and land at the same airport.

Richard

5 hours ago, DrumsArt said:

Hi Ray,

I understand that Nathan wants to take off, make a circuit by following waypoints and land at the same airport.

Richard

I've never tried it so Nathan could try it and report back.

Hey Guys,

I will be reporting back in a couple of weekends away

Whilst we're waiting for Nathan to report back, this "Round Robin" flight reminds me of the "Round the Bay" charter flights that Concorde used to make from/to Heathrow back in the eighties and nineties.

I was lucky enough to take one of these on BOAD in June 1995 and subsequently reproduced it with FSLabs Concorde in FSX.

It's too long ago to be certain now, but I can't remember any problems with RC4, so hopefully all will be well.