ATC Ruins Aviator Performance Nearly Every Time


ATC Calls Required, But Unavailable

Description of the issue:

While Conducting Search and Rescue in a company owned H125, The EFB States Departure and Arrival Runway is 11 at ICAO: KTRK. The first thing ATC wants me to do is taxi to helipad 1. The “Quick Reply” button is confirmed mapped, but unresponsive (until I get off the airport). The taxi option is not available in “Communication” (Which should be labelled as “ATC Comms” since not all in SIM Communications happen with ATC. There is no way to talk back to our base of operations or log our bases radio transmissions). The only options in Comms is “Request Startup Clearance” or “[Ground Services]” (?? why is the “[Ground Services]” in brackets?? Coding error perhaps?) … Furthermore, the “Request Startup Clearance” only appears after start-up. My Aviator Performance is doomed before I even get off the ground. A similar Comms bug arrives when returning to base. Even though the EFB says arrival is runway 11, ATC calls an approach to the helipad which triggers the whole process all over again. I make an approach to the helipad as directed by ATC, I’m landing in an undesignated area and no option for “Taxi to parking” until I land at the helipad, then cancel landing intentions, which refreshes the Comms list w/ 1 - Taxi to Parking and 2 - [Taxi for Takeoff Options . . .] 3 - [Ground Services] … again, Why are some of the ATC Instructions in brackets and most others are not? Even though I am following ATC (as a pilot should - regardless of what has already been filed - things change and we aren’t in a game right? It is a simulator? Right?) 5 negative marks on my Aviator Performance/ Eliminating a nearly perfect pilot rating and subsequently reducing the number of missions available. Not one time during the flight did I receive a Aviator Performance message regarding Cruise Speed, or Cruise Altitude, but those remarks are listed in the post flight analysis.

Community Folder is completely empty.
However, when I launched the SIM today I was told to restart the SIM (which I did) because of the 2020 content being added. This is the 5th time I have seen that message since downloading the SIM on Nov. 19, 2024. After closing the SIM and relaunching (Why am I being told to relaunch the SIM as soon as I launch the SIM?) this career/freelancer mode mission begins.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

This happens more often than not. “Sometimes” if I follow only the EFB and use pilot skills to get to a taxiway and runway I can avoid this issue, but only sometimes.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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YOUR SETTINGS

I am not using any dev mode and never have

System Specs:
Windows 11
CPU: 4.4 GHz 16 Core/32Thread Ryzen Threadripper 2950X
GPU: NVIDIA 2080Ti RTX
RAM: 128GB DDR4
V-RAM: 11G

MEDIA

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