I still don’t see how that changes anything except perhaps you might skip a couple of peaks in elevation along the route. The other day I flew from KCIC to KACV. ATC sent me to FL160. So many miles out I was ordered to descend to FL11000. Where in this scenario should I have requested a higher flight level? As it turned out it sent me to 7000, then 8000, then 3500, then 5000 etc. Goofy. I will play around w/ the pre-flight planner and see if it is possible to follow an IFR chart perhaps. Still though, I don’t see why the sim doesn’t simply determine where you need to be relative to terrain and your locked-in IFR route and approach it seems pretty straightforward. Maybe they will adopt somthing like this.
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