ATC makes you climb during descent into airports

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

On descent into airports during any mission, ATC will more often than not get an aircraft at FL300 to descent to, say, 15,000’ (all well and good), but then when well into the descent, ATC will get us to climb back up to like FL220, before descending us again to 2,000’ and we have to drop like a rock to make the runway.

If we don’t comply, we get dinged.

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:
All aircraft

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Never added any mods/add-ons

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Start mission
  2. Get to descent phase
  3. Observe ATC proceed to give unreasonable descent profiles

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:
Not relevant

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
NO

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
Nvdia GeForce RTX 3070

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

MEDIA

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Welcome to the oldest bug in MSFS … ATC is broken c r a p from the FSX

But there are intresting 3rd party things like SayIntentions.AI

Exactly the same as 2020 :tired_face:

Departures pretty good then ignore everything from TOD to arrival.

Also far too many hand offs.

I am impressed they’ve started to get SIDS in there, that’s some improvement at least!!

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It has its flaws but it’s not a broken c…p. Most players just don’t know how to use it properly. I did over 500 IFR flights with default ATC in FS2020.