As the title says, the controllers are not advising to descend. Furthermore the approach advise is coming to early (sometimes before TOD).

Same issue here more or less. Using Beta 8Q I get the 'Expect' call and the 'Cleared for the...' call, but not the 'Descend via'. Also seems to be hit and miss as to whether I get passed from CTR to APP. 

same here. I was told to contact tower at 28000 feet, 133 nm away.

BLUE STREAK Fifty Three Forty One Expect the CLIPR Two  arrival  with the MXE transition  for the  ILS  approach to runway Zero One at RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATL.  
~Expect the CLIPR Two  arrival  with the MXE transition  for the  ILS  approach to runway Zero One  BLUE STREAK Five Three Four One
Assigned Ctlr:KDCA Twr              119.10

BLUE STREAK Fifty Three Forty One You are One Three Three nautical miles Northeast of RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATL airport.  Cleared for the ILS approach to Runway Zero One at RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATL after CAVDI fly heading Three Five Five to join the approach at KATRN Contact Tower on One One Niner Point One good morning 
 

The next Beta may address some of this.  However, if you have the Log File for these flights, please email them to me or upload them and post a link.  DO NOT COPY THE LOG FILE INTO THIS FORUM.

P2A Log files are located in: C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\P2A_200\Logs where <UserName> is your PC user name. 
Portions of the path may be hidden by default, so be sure Windows Explorer has Show Hidden Items checked in the View tab.
 

Dave

Having just tried Beta 8R3 and reflown a route where I previously encountered the issues mentioned above, everything ran as expected. So that's a provisional thumbs up from me.

Beta 8R3 worked for me as well.

thanks

Spoke too soon. Whilst the issues mentioned above seem to have been resolved (for me at least), vectoring is still way off - no turn to final, and no final descent instruction to 3000ft. P2A seems to lose it somewhere during vectoring.

Yes, there does seem to be a problem in 8R3 vectoring.  Hopefully I'll have a fix soon.

 

I just put Beta 8R4 up on the Public Beta page of the web site and it should fix this issue. 

The web site is still the temporary on on p2atc.org.  If you enter either p2atc.org or p2atc.com you will go to the temporary web site.

Dave