Greg,Sorry to be repetitive, but if you use the PSS Airbus facility to import a FS2002 flightplan you need to be aware that there's a bug in it which will lose the first waypoint.If you use the same flightplan for RC3, when you are told to resume own navigation RC will expect you to fly direct to the first waypoint (assuming you are not flying a DP). If instead you fly direct to the Airbus' first waypoint then you will probably miss the real first waypoint and RC will expect you to do a 180 to hit it.The solution is to manually re-insert the first waypoint into the Airbus' MCDU after you've imported the FS2002 flight plan.Ian

well i wish they'd fix that!LOL

Believe me, so do I, but PSS have said that there's very little chance of any further patches for the Airbus series now that they've moved their development effort to other aircraft, such as the Dash 8.The line has to be drawn somewhere, I guess, but it does leave the Airbus with one or two irritating 'features'.Ian

That bug has been around as long as I've been using PSS's 747 panel starting back in the early FS2000 release from several years ago. I just got it again this morning even though I've patched the panel for FS2002. I had to request the next checkp in RC because the FMC dropped the first waypoint. I thought the PSS Airbus and it's panel was designed from the ground up for FS2002 and I'm surprised they haven't fixed it yet. My PIC767 FMC certainly has never had this problem. Then again, now that I think about it, my new PSS Dash8 FMC doesn't seem to be dropping waypoints, so maybe PSS finally figured it out. Wonder why they can't patch the older FMC's Import functions.AL

Well I can certainly confirm that the issue is in Airbus dropping the first waypoint, not with RC 3!So now I understand what was going wrong with my flights, and can correct the missing waypoint and get on with it without those spurious vectors!Greg

wonder HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE have this problem, and think rc is messing up.

Have experienced it a few times. Funny enough - (it's the same flightplan)!! - looking at the GPS-window, it has registred that you have passed the waypoint and are on the way to the next, but RC is insisting you have not... Seems that RC is a little bit more "slow" in recognizing that..

Lars,I have never been more than 3 miles past a waypoint before RC credited it. Since upping the priority, RC credits waypoints before FSNav does.

Well Scott - nevertheless i have been send 180 degrees backwards just to make a turn over the last waypoint for a second time, eventhough the GPS window already was showing the countdown of miles towards the next waypoint. But maybe the controllers have something against me and just finds it fun to play these tricks with me!! ;-)

Lars,Do me a favor. Watch what RC thinks is the distance to your waypoints, not just the GPS, to see how it compares and how fast the distance updates. It can depend on what's also running that takes up resources, so RC slows down. If you have a lot of AI traffic, or a lot of add-on scenery, or anything that really bogs FS down, that can also cause a drain on the system, not to mention any other background programs. The RC priority change should also have made this a lot better.Unless you're flying a Concorde, or at 2x or 4x, this shouldn't be happening. So that's why I want to know what else is running, and what the RC distance update is.

Happened to me last night, GPS say's I missed it by 0.5 miles but RC yells I'm off course & do a 180! Just ignore the controller & request next waypoint, he shuts up then. -))))

Dave,well...yes...but that doesn't exactly solve the problem now, does it? :-lol

I'll keep an eye on it, Scott and then follow Hermit's advice. The passengers must think i'm drunk!! :-lol And i only have some 60 or 70% of the default AI-traffic running. My computer almost dies when i try to run the ProjectAI stuff - UNFORTUNATELY!!! (I might even skip that, since these planes drives one nut!! I don't know if it's only me, but i feel they are popping up everywhere where they are not supposed to. I was cleared to land the other day, when a B737 suddenly passed under me) :-eek

>I was cleared to land the other day, when a >B737 suddenly passed under me) :-eekMust have been a Delta or America West pilot after a Christmas party. :-lol

Haha - yes, i've heard about their "habits" in these two airlines... :-lol He also flew faster than me. I was doing some 170 kts and he not only passed me, but also managed to land before me, so i took the chance and landed too - without accidents.. No "go around" btw.. - seems the controllers also had a Christmas party going on!? ;-)