March 8, 20215 yr Hi all. Been noticing an awful lot that, unless I’ve previously specified a landing runway myself, ATC will direct me to use any old runway irrespective of wind direction. I’ve lost count of the times that I’ve made ultra-fast, downwind landings. Or looked across at a fully inflated windsock blowing at 90 degrees different to my heading. Sometimes, if I really don’t want to crash, I will ignore their directives, and place myself into wind. Other times, I will obey their misguided orders, and fight my way down. Just wondered if this was a general thing that needs fixing, or is the problem at my end somehow? It does ruin the immersion a bit when nearly every flight culminates in either a battle with the wind, or a flagrant disregard for flight rules. Edited March 8, 20215 yr by Bilbosmeggins Typo 5950X, RTX3090, 32GB@3600, Samsung Evo NVME 1TB, Warthog HOTAS, MFG Crosswinds, Reverb G2.
March 8, 20215 yr Yes ATC right now is like random dice roll 9 out 10 times they put you on runway with a tail wind! Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
March 8, 20215 yr 12 minutes ago, Bilbosmeggins said: Hi all. Been noticing an awful lot that, unless I’ve previously specified a landing runway myself, ATC will direct me to use any old runway irrespective of wind direction. I’ve lost count of the times that I’ve made ultra-fast, downwind landings. Or looked across at a fully inflated windsock blowing at 90 degrees different to my heading. Sometimes, if I really don’t want to crash, I will ignore their directives, and place myself into wind. Other times, I will obey their misguided orders, and fight my way down. Just wondered if this was a general thing that needs fixing, or is the problem at my end somehow? It does ruin the immersion a bit when nearly every flight culminates in either a battle with the wind, or a flagrant disregard for flight rules. I have discovered you can taxi to any runway and ATC will still clear you for take off. I just go to the one I planned according to weather. Lee Lee H i9 13900KF 64GB Ram 24GB RTX 4090
March 8, 20215 yr Author 17 minutes ago, Midnight Music said: I have discovered you can taxi to any runway and ATC will still clear you for take off. I just go to the one I planned according to weather. Lee I do that quite often too. The main trouble starts if I cut a journey short, and head off to the nearest airport. If the visibility is poor, and it’s not a large, well illuminated airport, it can be a game trying to get a look at where is best to land as opposed to where I’ve been told to land. 5950X, RTX3090, 32GB@3600, Samsung Evo NVME 1TB, Warthog HOTAS, MFG Crosswinds, Reverb G2.
March 8, 20215 yr It's annoying after landing into wind being told to clear the runway as you are not cleared to land. It can't be difficult to program ATC to recognise wind direction. Oddly, I'm sometimes ready to enter a left pattern only to be told to fly right traffic too. Lastly, I would like to request an overhead join/rejoin too if possible. Ryzen 5800X3D, Nvidia RTX5080 - 32 Gig DDR4 RAM, 1TB & 2 TB NVME drives - Windows 11 64 bit MSFS 2024 Premium Deluxe Edition Resolution 2560 x 1440 (32 inch curved monitor)
March 8, 20215 yr The wind is there to read, since I use PF3 for my ATC it it always calls the proper runway according to the wind direction for take off and landing. Sometimes the wind changes on approach, and PF3 will change your landing runway.
March 8, 20215 yr 45 minutes ago, cianpars said: It's annoying after landing into wind being told to clear the runway as you are not cleared to land. It can't be difficult to program ATC to recognise wind direction. Oddly, I'm sometimes ready to enter a left pattern only to be told to fly right traffic too. Lastly, I would like to request an overhead join/rejoin too if possible. Never had an issue with this in previous versions of flight sims. I'm thanking for this thread as I was beginning to think it was my set-up. I don't know why they didn't just copy the code from things that worked fine in previous versions of flight sim. Stuff like this It makes me feel that the eye is on the Xbox crowd. LouP
March 8, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said: The wind is there to read, since I use PF3 for my ATC it it always calls the proper runway according to the wind direction for take off and landing. Sometimes the wind changes on approach, and PF3 will change your landing runway. What is PF3? jeff
March 8, 20215 yr Talking about ATC! Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
March 8, 20215 yr ATC has also descended me into mountains enough times that I dont bother with it anymore
March 8, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, starstream707 said: What is PF3? jeff https://www.oncourse-software.co.uk/pf3_details.htm
March 8, 20215 yr 1 minute ago, Bobsk8 said: https://www.oncourse-software.co.uk/pf3_details.htm Man I wanted to try the demo but the E-Mail doesn't arrive. I start to think the dev actually sends them out manually. o.o
March 8, 20215 yr 39 minutes ago, kakihara123 said: Man I wanted to try the demo but the E-Mail doesn't arrive. I start to think the dev actually sends them out manually. o.o He is in the UK, so it is about 10 PM there. You will probably have it in morning.
March 8, 20215 yr ATC in current state is a joke at best. System: I ASRock X670E | AMD 7800X3D | 64Gb DDR5 6000 | RTX 4090 | 2TB NVMe | Seasonic Vertex 1000W I LG Ultra Gear 34 UW I
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