Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
Yes. ATC does not give vectors for a visual approach but tells you it will. You keep flying, passing the airfield and beyond and no more word from ATC.
When i request visual, last thing i hear from ATC is similar to this: “Reamain current altitude and heading, expect vectors for visual”.
The “request vectors to next waypoint” button doesn’t help either (it keeps telling me to remain alt and hdg, even if i’m way to close to the airport and should have started decend and change heading long time ago) in my case and shoudn’t be neccessary - ATC needs to be proactive, not me.
May be this could be of help: Last time i tested this, ATC said expect vectory visual, then nothing, i passed the airfield and then slewed my plane (320neo) backwards till the airfield was in sight again. During this slewing ATC said i should decend to 2000 feet, but still no heading command. So the functionality is somewhat there but seems not to be triggered or something… Just a thought…
And this is just one bug of many showstopper-class bugs reported in the ATC forum - i don’t know what happened here, but ATC was WAY better and more reliable in FSX imo.
Please Asobo do something about the ATC, this is a real letdown, especially for a next gen sim like this, which is stellar in so many aspects and really kills immersion not only for more dedicated simmers (they probably use vatsim or external ATC anyways) but especially for average simmers like me, who like basic ATC guidance for immersion and fun.
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I independent of the used aircraft.
I do not use any addons, the sim is vanilla.
Happens with Azure and offline voices.
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