Description of the issue: During multiple airline missions with the 737 max I have been ordered to go back up to a cruise alt of FL350 even though I am less than 100 miles from the airport. It doesnt request a decent, and when I start to decend on my own the ATC proceeds to badger me to return to FL…

I also tend to encounter this on any mission except for some with ILS approaches that remain IFR all the way until landing. Otherwise, either I get a descent too late or they basically force me to Cancel IFR and dump me VFR with too much energy too high for the approach. Generally speaking, you sh…

Not only in missions, also in free flight. It’s worth noting that the first days after release, ATC worked correctly in this regard, provided that a flight plan with STARs was filed.

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it? • Yes Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue: • its not just the 737. I get it on 80%of my missions. Being told to expedite my climb to 9k while im on final. If relevant, provide additio…

Yeah, when I have done it correctly like you say I am able to land safely and park, but the mission still will not register as completed and will force me to “skip to decent” even after 3 or more hours flying on AP to try and avoid the skip deduction. Then when I skip to decent it puts me in a dive …

That is insane that they probably fixed something trivial and meaningless and broke something so vital. I am not familiar with STARS, unfortunately I am using xbox for my platform, so I am limited with flight planning tools. I would love to be able to use one. Although I am not confident the game wi…

MSFS 2020 does exactly the same it is the same ATC engine :roll_eyes:

Awesome, so probably not on their priority list of fixes.

I just want to add that they are making forward progress in this. I’m in the SU3 beta and just did an approach into KDFW and ATC talked me down the whole way in a timely manner that matched my arrival and approach procedures.

That would be incredible if they actually fixed that.

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ATC Requiring me to stay at cruise even though I should be descending

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