I have installed version 3.0.1. After that I discovered that the "Pilot Auto Replay" under "Options" is greyed out. It is not possible anymore to check or uncheck it. In version 3.0 this option was available. What is the cause of that? Another question I have is how RC is determing which runways are available at an airport. I downloaded the newest AIRAC-cycle from Navdata and I supposed that the new runway at EHAM (18R-36L) should therefore be available in RC. Unfortunately only the "old" runways at EHAM were visible in RC (Controller info page).Can anyone help me out?Thanks in advance.Alje Bakker

Alje,RC uses its own runways and airport files. It knows nothing about AIRAC cycles. If you want the new runway, you'll have to edit the r.txt file yourself until a new file is available. Always back-up any file before editing it.As for the pilot autoreply, I don't know.

Scott,Thanks for your answer. Still I do not understand this issue. I found out that RC is realy using AIRAC cycle info. I have downloaded the version for RC from Navdata. It contains Navaids and Waypoints; no Airports and Runways. Where does RC gets his information of Airports and Runways from? Is it from the scenery or someting like that? I do not have any idea.Remains still the problem of the "Pilot Auto Reply" option which is grayed out and therefore can not be checked or unchecked.Is there anyone who could help me out with this?Thanks in advance.Alje Bakker

Runway information comes from the rc3 file "r.dat", a text file, and airport information comes from "a.dat", a text file. These can be edited using "notepad" or "wordpad" supplied with Microsoft operation systems. Be sure to create a backup copy before editing these files.I think the first runway in an airport's list is selected by rc3 unless you specify a runway in rc3 -- there is a runway selection box inside "controller info" -- you can specify both departure and arrival runways.So, the AIRAC updates have no effect on the runways available to rc3. And, you cannot create new runways that actually appear in FS2002 because of the scenery files. You can modify runways, etc. using the program AFCAD -- I guess you can create new ones, too, but they won't appear in the FS2002 scenery. I don't know if there is a scenery file modifying program available or not.

The files are a.txt and r.txt, not .datRunways are selected by 1)ILS, 2)Length for the aircraft type you are flying, and 3)wind direction. If ther e are multiple runways for your a/c type, then it's ILS then wind.

if you have display text checked on the options page, pilot auto reply is not an option. you must reply manually when display text is selectedothers have addressed the airport information. the nav/airport/runway information is a combination of navdata's data and actual fs2002 data. the files (a.txt, r.txt, etc) contain everything you need for fs2002/fs2000/fs98 operations. if you need to manually add information, make backup's of the original files!jd

Hi guys,Thanks a lot for all your help and answers.I'm very pleased with RC3; a great program.Alje Bakker