I am planning to make a first ever transoceanic flight. How will RC301 handle this?I would like to depart in the evening to arrive in the morning. I know there is a feature to pause at 200 miles. I suspect that I will be able to take control with RC then for vectoring etc.I am curious though as to what happens during the overnight period when I am asleep. As I will probably be flying a PSS or MelJet 747 with PSS panel, will I be receiving traffic deviation calls that cannot be handled by the non-standard autopilot? Or will RC just follow the NAT track?Any help is appreciated.Thanks Dom

set the traffic vectors slider to 0make sure the flight plan has reasonable distances between checkpoints. scott had a post or two about this subject someplace.

400 miles maximum. When in doubt, put 30 degrees in heading deviation on the options page.

Dom,I noticed you've also asked a related question about how to input the NAT tracks for this flight into the FMC on the PSS forum but haven't had an answer yet. As this is obviously your first foray into this area, why don't you use one of my real-world B747-400 (or B777) flight plans?They're available from AVSIM.com and Flightsim.com as '744fplv1.zip' and '772fplv1.zip'. Both contain a number of transatlantic flights complete with NAT tracks. Each plan comes in two versions - one *.pfp for loading to the PSS FMC and an identical one in *.pln format for RC3 - which ensures that the FMC and RC are working from the same data. PeteP

Thank you jd, Scott and Pete.Now, where is that crank?Dom

RC3 will not automatically do the NAT tracks. If you let the copilot fly from A to B and the distance is > 400 miles you will fly direct...but the route will not follow the great circle routing. For example if you do a flight from Miami to London it will fly you via North Africa, Spain and into the UK from the south - not at all the NATs. I have found that using a 3rd party (not MSFS) flight planner will fix this problem. I use Nav and it adds waypoints where needed. It will do a NAT-like routing from North America to Europe or transpacific as well.Cheers, ml