Thanks everyone - I appreciate the feedback. Really unfortunate this was missed in testing.
I use PF3 for ATC and same thing, it keeps nagging me to climb or descend when I am spot on with the correct altitude.
ATC is still a port of the ATC from FSX. They’ve said for months they’ll fix it…nothing except now it’s even worse.
I thought I was losing my mind. ATC even reports the wrong altitude even with using the correct barometric pressure vended by ATC. I love the ATC, but might have to disable it given all of these bugs.
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It’s worse with live weather. Using preset weather may be a workaround as well.
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It’s due to high temperature live weather bug
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Yes this the cause. Don’t use live weather and it will be ok. Well that’s what I have done.
It’s a very annoying bug.
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Yea I turn it off when I pass FL180 and turn it back on when I’m descending below FL180.
Hopefully they’ll fix it soon
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constant telling pilot plus myself to expedite to the next FL when I’ already there. very annoying
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There’s an issue with how the altimeter is handling the air pressure. The workaround is to go out of the STD altimeter and into whatever they say you are.
For example, if ATC says you are 300 feet above the assigned altitude, change your altimeter so that you are currently 300 feet above your set altitude, then have your autopilot to descend back to it.
Similarly, If ATC says you are 400 feet below the assigned altitude, then change your altimeter again so that you are currently 400 feet below the set altitude, and have your autopilot climb to reach it again.
This should silence the ATC.
Another workaround is to fly with a weather preset on a static altimeter that you set the same the whole way.
ok so let me try to get this straight.
Lets say I’ve just reached my designated FL320 on autopilot. ATC says I’m either X feet above or below my designated FL. I turn off AP, either climb or descend to where ATC says I’m not supposed to be, and then activate back AP and let it take me back to my designated FL320 I was at?
No, that’s not it…
You change the Barometric Selector to make it “look like” you’re X feet above/below the assigned altitude in your PFD. Then you can engage and disenage the AP to let it climb/descent.
This is because the ATC is reading a different barometric selector than what it’s set in you aircraft. So by changing “your” barometric selector, you’re making yours the same as the ATCs, therefore silencing them.
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ok thanks I get it now. just adjust the barometric selector. I dont gotta touch AP or anything. and just let AP do its thing.
Yep this the workaround, thats great . But how does all this come to this, how does it all get so stuffed up???. Does anyone do any type of testing.? Its ridiculous that from now on everyone is going to cringe when they hear of a new wonderful update. Asobo falt out lied to us all about what they were doing to get incrreased fps.
There’s something wrong with the live weather and how it affects baro, so the altitude readings between your aircraft and ATC gets out of sync. There are other longer threads going into more specifics of what is wrong.
As to how you can workaround it, unfortunately you have to turn off live weather if you want to use ATC. You can kind of work around it by constantly tweaking the baro during flight, but I found this was very hit and miss. Sometimes the difference between your reading and ATC can be large, 2000ft+ above or below.
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Hi All
I am an Xbox console player and nee to flight sim but I’m aware of all basic controls.
Can someone help me please I have a message on ATC saying “please continue climb to 32,000 which is my cruising altitude, I have reached this altitude but it still keeps saying continue climb. How can I fix this?
I have also noticed this, even when I am 1ft from my designated cruise height atc is constantly say climb and maintain the flight level I have set in the flightplan
Info about the hotfix coming out (hopefully Friday) that will fix this issue.
Regards
If you are flying with live weather, have you made sure you routinely check your baro and adjust it accordingly? ATC will tell you to climb or descend if your altitude is incorrect due to variations in barometric pressure.
This is a SU5 bug that they are addressing. For now, I just go up (or down) a little until ATC leaves me alone.
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