Ok. I flew the flight today once again. As I approached the airport I was told to expect vectors for 1L. Once again they turned me to 040 and away from the airport. I continued past the 30 mile mark, actually to 90 miles out and RC never contacted me. This is a really weird and confusing problem. I'll mess with it again tomorrow and will delete the flight plan and rebuild another. If that doesn't work I'll try and request 1L everytime they tell me to expect 1L. Maybe if I ask for it they will vector me properly or at least clear me for a straight in approach. This is one of those problems that will make one's hair turn grey or fall out. Actually I can't wait for version 4 to come out. Hopefully it will be out before FS2006. Bob

>Grasping at a straw here, but are you by any chance flying>the JHAWK4 STAR on a flight plan generated by FSBuild? The>coordinates for second to last checkpoint before the airport>(JEWEL int) is incorrect in the FSBuild data, and the>checkpoint it puts in the flight plan is actually 5700 miles>away on the western coast of South Korea. The final checkpoint>(NOAHS int) is 11 miles from KMCI. You might miss this if you>didn't look at the flight plan closely. Given the apparent>flight plan distance to KMCI I'm not sure if Approach would>even be talking to you yet for another 10,000 nm past RUGBB>int, so this may not be your problem, but I thought I'd throw>it out anyway. I learned early on that some STARs have extra>waypoints in them that result in getting some odd vectors to>final from RC, but I've never had problems using RC with the>JHAWK4 STAR after correcting the coordinates for JEWEL.>>Mark Kuebeler No sir I'm not using the JHAWK4 STAR. And my flight plan was created using the default MS planner before I bought and installed RC. But I really appreciate the suggestion. Anything helps at this point.Bob

i looked at your flight plan, and there are no checkpoints.try rebuilding your flight plan, use low/high/vor routing, and see if it makes any differencei'm going to re do it with vor, and fly it, and see what happensjd

It might be that the controller is giving you a vector and it's not coming across the radio. I am having trouble with the controller's voice disappearing...but since I use the RC copilot to answer calls, I can hear his readbacks even when the controller's clearances don't come through.RegardsBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-V L-300Washington, DC

i flew this, and what i suspected was happening, is happening.the clearance is not simply fly heading 040it is fly heading 040 until established on the localizer. this is a near straight in approach, and you are a little to the left of 01L. you are also far enough out you are not registering the localizer.in this case, do the following. fly on your current heading until the localizer comes alive, then turn 040. as soon as the localizer starts zero'ing in, resume the 01L runway heading (008) until you are on the localizer.sorry for the delay in sorting this outjd

Ok will do. Thanks for spending the time with me to figure this out. Bob