First, RC3 is AWESOME. I have been a user of FSATC since FS2002 appeared, but this is 10,000 times better.I did my first RC3 flight with the PSS A320 on a simple flight from Heathrow to Frankfurt ... lousy weather in Europe tonight .. using FS_Meteo. I tried using FDC also but all sound stopped .. (hmmm?? saw a post about start order ... did that ... need to try again)At any rate ... all things worked quite well I thought. Start and push and all was really neat ... I really like the position and hold .. excellent. And I really love the step climbing ... rather than the direct to 350. Nothing strange at all.I was descended quite a way out ... 130 or so miles .. way before TOD ... but a nice descent 350 to 240, then 240 to 150 then to 100. Eventually into the murk .. 6000 ft cleared for approach to 7L. Very nice setup for a nice loc intercept .. a bit high .. 4200 feet .. GSIA is 4000ft .. don;t really like intercepting from above.Ok ... down the slope ... TCAS clear .. 5 mile final .. cleared to land ... at 200 ft ... tower to poor paul ... go around ... ok .. toga, clean up,and more vectors. fiddled with he MCDU to set up another approach. Vectored to a nice downwind, base and intercept again ... this time there I was flying with a red dot and a 777 passed over my head (hahahahaha) yikes .. well another GA. vectored same path, nothing on TCAS and yet another GA ... #3 .. this time I could see nothing ... ceiling was about 700 feet .. murk all the way to 6000. well by this time I had already called for a KC-135 for air to air refueling (hehehehe) .. i mean cheated and added first 2000 then 4000 pounds ... I had started with 14700 pounds . way enough for a 1 hour flight with 25 mins of hold and reserve etc... but i was at 2 hrs ... the fourth time around when told to GA at 150 feet .. and I just said (*&^% it) and landed ... o well ... paul lost his license on the first RC3 flight. I ran out of fuel 100 feet from the gate!!So .. I had the TVs slider at the 3rd notch from OFF ... I have traffic set about 50 percent ... What happened to me ... 4 GAs .. every now and again I get one GA .. that is reasonable.To you experienced people:1. what should I have done? 2. i almost was going to ask for 7R .. maybe should have3. should I have declared an emergency?O well .. I have read most of the "book" .. i know i know RTFMI noticed my clearance to E D D F ... hmmm ... and from E G L L .. just wondered how come not Frankfurt and Heathrow .. hmmm?Read about the slow speech .. I like it myself ... a bit slow, but I could at least understand it .. my tired old brain likes SLOWBut that is a NIT ... Altogether a VERY EXCELLENT purchase .. and VERY EXCELLENT piece of software ... this adds another level of challenge!! Many Congratulations and thanks for all your hard work!!!

Paul,At what point did you drop the gear? If you're not extending the landing gear soon enough, that'll trigger a GA everytime. I don't recall the exact dme parameter, but if you do this at or before you're told to call Tower you're fine. I think it's 2 or 3 dme.Do recall hearing (what we call) the "steak" comment? "...it was observed on short final you'd not lowered your gear...". The reason I ask is, there is a random GA built into RC, regardless of gear position. It's very possible you'd have gotten a GA, even if you'd lowered the gear at (example) 10m out.EDDF/EGLL - Yes, you'll hear letters only respect to airports, navaids, waypoints etc... virtually impossible (literally impossible) to have all our pilots/controllers record:a). every airpot in the world:(. every intersection in the worldc). keep re-recording until all files are consistent and correctd). do that every release and point release to keep them up to dateThat'd take a year in itself, require 3 CDs+, and send Scott to the funny farm :-eek!Glad you're enjoying sir! Don't forget to use that Save/Load feature. Get in the habit where, at points during flights only you can determine, to Save. Then if something like the GA comes up and you want to fiddle with how you handled things, you don't have to completely refly ;)

Hi Doug,Thanks very much for your reply.I usually drop the gear when the G/S indicator is one notch from the middle .. unless I am too fast and drop them earlier for some drag. But characteristically I intercept the localizer at 175 flaps 2 on the A320 .. always has worked, on loc intercept, 160, flaps 3, on glideslope, gear down, managed speed, flaps 4, 500 - 1000 feet toggle AP off and land. I will make notes if this happens again and again, but otherwise ... no issue ... except I was tired. I DO need to read and reread the DOC ... i know there was some fuel related things I missed or did not understand completely.My learning style is skim and see what's there, read the USE stuff, try and fail, read, try and fail, and keep that up until I have it all down. has worked well for me ... hahahaha!!!My comment about EDDF and EGGL and how they are spoken relates to the EditVoicePak fiddling I have been doing for a while now adding missing airline names and ATC names ... I had thought that the data contained there was available to everyone ,,, static yes ... like the MSFS "WORLD of airways, waypoints, etc" but there. This is NOT an issue for me and I'm sure for it's not for anyone else ... as I sit there in the sometimes boring legs of my flights, i wonder technically "HOW DID THEY DO THAT" ... having been a programmer for many years .."in the OLD days of COBOL and PL/1 before the OO's" so just curious. Would not want to conceive of compiling and maintaining a list of that stuff myself. Maybe for a future dot release of RC3, you could add a choice to say "I am running of fuel!!!!!" Please let me land ... hahahaha. Thanks so much for adding to my sim experience.

Maybe for a future dot release of RC3, you could add a choice to say "I am running of fuel!!!!!" Please let me land ... hahahaha. It is there. choose the option to declare min. fuel.