Hi All, I keep planning VFR flights both on the world map and EFB but they all start in the Sim with ATC telling me it’s IFR. Has anyone else noticed this and can I do anything about it? It’s just another immersion busting thing that’s bugging me. Cheers

What happens if you set it to IFR? I have the opposite problem where I cannot get the sim to act like I have set it to IFR and I never tried setting it to VFR to see if that worked. (I can’t test for you, I refunded it.)

TL;DR: “start with ATC telling me it’s IFR” Need more detail - plane/airport/plan and where/how is "ATC telling it is IFR When I start in Cabri G2 from an uncontrolled airport, with filed VFR plan, ATC panel shows “Tune to Traffic xxx.xx FD38” for example, then Announce Taxi That is VFR at an…

If I create a flight plan on the web planner and save it I have to load it in the in game EFB. I then have to ‘File plan with ATC’ to allow me to start the flight. I’m not sure if that makes it IFR automatically? I can’t just Send Route to Avionics. So this seems to make every flight IFR. If I just…

All the game is broken dude… ATC…EFB… flight plan… IFS… and career mode. I also found out another bug : When you buy a used plane, you check it and it says it’s good about components. So you buy it for 1 600 000 credits. Once you have it, you cant fly with it because it says many components are b…

It may be that I just don’t understand the rules for IFR but I’m sure I’ve departed controlled airports before, and contacted ATC etc but not been told the flight was IFR. Maybe the game is a bit more advanced now and ATC know I’m going to need to fly IFR due to the plan I’ve made. Dunno. Just to s…

How did you get that many credits dude? :joy: I only make about £10k a day. :roll_eyes:

[image] CorvusCorvid538: contacted ATC etc but not been told the flight was IFR. Please explain what you mean “told the flight was IFR”?

Just realised it’s actually me (as in the co-pilot) that’s saying it. I didn’t twig as it’s a female voice. Nevertheless, I still created the flight as VFR but it’s changed into IFR. Maybe there’s good reason, I just don’t understand why. My co-pilot says “Inverness tower, Cessna xxxx ready for dep…

First suggestion: Get rid of copilot Second suggestion: Turn off ALL assistances! (Trust yourself)

You’ve got me thinking now. I’ve got AI assistance off (just double checked it and it’s definitely off for radio comms) So this female voice is mine. But this isn’t right either… My character is definitely male with a male voice. So why is my character suddenly female? I just didn’t cotton on to th…

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