I planned a short hop from KBOS to KACK today and ran into a "thing" that might be a bug or a feature depending on the reply to this post. :()While planning the hop I accidently set the cruise altitude to 1000 feet rather than 10000 feet. As I started the flight I was surprised as ATC cleared me to 1000 feet after take off with no "expect FLxxx within YY minutes...etc" to follow (I didn't yet realise the mistake I made in filing the flight plan). After take off I turned to my assigned heading and climbed to 1000 feet while waiting to get handed to departure. Nothing happened. There I was, a foggy day in Boston, licking the roof tops and keeping a close eye for antennas and scy scrapers heading my way. There was no options available in the menu apart from "Main menu - 0" so I couldn't ask for a higher altitude or abort the departure.After more than 5 minutes of this, still waiting for that hand-off (well de-routed from my filed plan) I decided my passengers safety had precedence over ATC so I initiated a climb to 3000 feet. Then, at ~2000' KBOS TWR suddenly contacted me and immediately handed me off to departure (who, of course, gave me a hard time for not staying at my assigned altitude *rolls eyes*).Just to make sure, I re-flew the same plan again with the exact same result.I now have two questions:Firstly, shouldn't RC reject flight plans that clearly doesn't follow departure limitations? Granted, that info is likely not available in the FS2004 database (or is it?) so I can see the problem if it doesn't.Secondly, was the getting-handed-off while climbing just a coincidence or did I simply enter "radio shadow" efter my take off so that TWR couldn't reach me?Thanks for a great product btw.

Hi there,I think the hand off to departure occurs at a certain height above the airport which you never reached with a cruise altitude of 1000 feet.They are a mean bunch the RC controllers. I'll bet all the sympathy you'll get from them is: you filed it, you fly it :-lolI've done the same myself ;-)All the best,John

Hehe, well it WAS a silly mistake and I suppose your suggestion is more likely than implementing a compex radio shadow (would be extremely cool tho).However, shouldn't there ALWAYS be some sort of option available to the pilot? I might want to declare an emergency as one of my engines decides to call it a day just after take off or something...Regards

But your Thrust Reduction and Accel Height would be greater than a 1000ft AGL anyway right? ;o)Subs

>But your Thrust Reduction and Accel Height would be greater>than a 1000ft AGL anyway right? ;o)>>SubsNot in a single piston.