I’ve never been dinged for not having the strobes on - I always put them on when entering the runway. But some planes don’t have beacons, so in those you’d need strobes on. In what plane did that happen?
ive noticed if you set the sim rate too high, you will most certainly misss an atc transmission quickly, i use simrate 4 usually and this happens often
There are a lot of bugs in ATC during landing step. Sometimes it is not possible to archive the goal, because communication is not offered, or to late.
PS: Manually announcing all four legs at landing, starting with upwind, seems to make some difference to get to 100%. However, this is not offered everytime.
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Airline procedures need to be scrapped completely. You can follow everything, and still get a deduction. Everytime I change my route from what the game wants me to fly I seem to only get 70-75% in this.
Airline Procedures are different for everyone and with what they want to do, and lets admit it. The game wants you to do some really stupid stuff most the time. Im constantly loosing rep because of this.
I just completed an Alaska trip, it was a very very rough ride with real weather mission and I lost a complete level from A to B because I somehow didn’t follow airline procedures? I changed my route to follow the valleys because climbing 10,000 ft made no sense on the route I was handed to get over mountain tops to dive back down to the runway to land.
And the ATC communications also, like what? I got 2 tags on this on this flight and I made it a VFR flight right after takeoff and somehow got this.
I also tried a helicopter mission today, and it would not stop telling me I was exceeding speed restrictions on a vertical takeoff…
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It’s impossible to respect the ATC altitude when ATC gives you impossible altitudes.
I think the airline procedures stat is a good idea, but is problematic for 2 reasons:
a) ATC is completely bugged
too often you cannot actually follow the procedures at ATC is not responding.
the comms panel seems completely bugged at times.
note:
early on career, when you are in the C172 and simply select the default ‘enter’ it was fine… but once your start using the different aircraft, and use comms panel it all falls apart.
this is frustrating, as it now hits your rep hard and you can do little about it.
b) explanation
if you get a hit to airline procedure there is zero explanation as to why.
I think each stat on a mission, should come with a list of reasons why you have been downgraded.
overall, I wonder if the split stats is a good idea.
perhaps there should just be one, and then use the UI screen space to explain what you did wrong.
here decompiled airline procedures calculation for cargo flight
code (may be outdated as I am not sure how it is calculated on the server).
most interesting part in CargoAircraft_Communications_Scoring
Scoring_AirlineProcedure.xml.txt (2.0 KB)
CargoAircraft_Communications_Scoring.xml.txt (9.0 KB)
CargoAircraft_Override_Communications.xml.txt (82.2 KB)
You’re right the ATC altitudes are dumb, but did you know you can ask ATC to lower the altitude if its too high ? thats how i managed to get good approval
Open the EFB before you start, change the altitude (and anything else that you like), file the plan with ATC & send it to avionics, you don’t have to accept the flight plan / altitude that’s generated…
If that’s what they way they should have an ATC that actually works well enough to complete a whole flight. I did a flight in the vision jet yesterday and atc had me descend to 6000 from cruise then I never heard from them again. I let it play out to see what happened and I over flew the airport at 6000 and eventually had to just cancel and spiral down on my own to land.
Did something change the last days on scoring of ‘airline procedures’ ? Or is it me hitting the higher 60’ies of skill that makes the system prone to deduction of random points ? . I don’t seem to be able to score >75% on airline procedure while not missing a single communication with ATC, and a perfect flight otherwise. Before I would hit ‘S’ scores easy and consistently. now I’m not hitting that just because of this deduction…
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