13 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

BFI to ORS - what flight plan route did you file and at what altitude?  Did you fly an instrument approach or just a visual?  I'd like to try as this is exactly why I bought BATC.  I just want to fly fairly short IFR hops and shoot an instrument approach for practice.  This is where batc usually fails me.  I'd guess 80-90% of simmers use airliners so for them it generally works fine.  When batc has charted procedures and longer ranges it seems to be pretty good.  (I posted about my recent 737 bbj flight in the other thread).  

But short ranged flights really get the vectoring algorithms in a tizzy.

Yes, I was surprised, I figured that flight had a low success.  I was expecting a small airport like ORS to basically not work.  

My route (which apparently is the real one Empire Air flies according to flightradar):

BFI DCT LOFAL DCT CVV DCT ORS 

4000 ft.  No SID/STARs obviously.  

It did want me to fly the visual and I didn't request an instrument.  The weather was clear (BLI was socked in, but ORS was clear) and I had the RNAV loaded in case.  It did vector me in very tight, I think I had to turn over 300 degrees to line up, but it worked.  A 208 isn't hard to get lined up.  Altitude wasn't a problem as I was never that high anyway.  

I was pleasantly surprised to be honest.  There's some KSEA to KBLI routes I want to try too.  I have no idea how it is going to handle Sea-Tac.  In the real world, these C208s don't bother flying STARs as they just aren't getting high enough for a short hop.  I'm guessing coming back into Sea-Tac without a STAR is going to be a mess, but we'll see.  

I'm just learning the Black Square 208 so I want to do more of these.  I wish I had time for more test flights.  

Another C208 flight from KORS to KBFI (not BLI this time).  This one had some hiccups, but nothing crazy.  I take off and it ignores my flight plan and sends me direct to destination.  Not a huge deal.  

As I get closer, it clears me visual runway 14L.  14L has no instrument approaches, those are all on 14R.  The weather is really marginal at the airport for visual (actually says it is IFR).  I request a different runway, but nope.  Not allowed.  I can't request another approach because there isn't one.  Ok, so I take their vectors and altitude and try it.  I barely break through the clouds and can see the runway, so ok, I go visual (I had the other ILS dialed in otherwise I would have gotten lost).  Ceilings say 800ft, but MSFS 2024 always seems to be more clear than the real weather, so it worked.  There's no way I'd be legal for this approach in real life.  

The weird thing is it was using 14R for other planes, just not me.  

So, not ideal, but still I didn't get forgotten about and/or any terrible instructions.