October 1, 20223 yr Hi, when flying the Cessna Caravan IFR i generally avoided slecting a arrival during setup. Usually i select an departure and leave arrival at "direct". No problem so far. Yesterday the sim selected an published arrival for me so i went with it. My cruise altitude was 8000 feet but for some reason as the arrival started the ATC wanted me to go up to 14000 feet (!). Of course i refused since i was already close to the airport. But in the WT G1000 i saw that the last arrival WP did not trigger the approach. I was assigned an approach and had loaded it into the G1000. But after the last Arrival WP my plane just continued straight ahead. So i manually activated the first approach WP. From there on everything went smooth. So my questions: Would you generally when flying IFR in a Caravan use a published arrival? Or is this more for airliners? Why the sudden oder tp climb to 14000 feet? Did i miss something? Is it normal that there is no automatic transition from Arrival to Approach when in NAV mode (GPS) with the WT G1000? How would you handle that in rela life? Thanks
October 1, 20223 yr For a C208 it would be more on the rare side to get a STAR unless flying into a real busy area like NY or Socal I don't use in-sim ATC for obvious reasons. Without knowing the procedure it's probable that the initial altitude on the STAR is 14000. The G1000 will not activate the approach if you only have it loaded. I think this is a change from older units like the GNS I use irl. What is the airport and procedure btw? | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
October 2, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, wiggum said: Hi, it was EDDL but sadly i cant remember the arrival. I checked the EDDL Arrivals. There are none that require you to fly above FL140. There are some that require you to be below FL140.
October 2, 20223 yr 38 minutes ago, Farlis said: I checked the EDDL Arrivals. There are none that require you to fly above FL140. There are some that require you to be below FL140. Is that the first restriction - if it is then some ATC programs seem to translate Above/Below to AT for the first one...... Don't tend to use arrivals for GA aircraft, for that reason & the general distances involved with some of them..... G Edited October 2, 20223 yr by Gazzareth Gary Davies aka "Gazzareth" Simming since 747 on the Acorn Electron
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