ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
I don’t know if this is strictly a bug per se, more just a totally artificial, improbable scenario.
ATC are regularly, say every couple of minutes, telling AI aircraft they are so many thousand feet above or below their cleared level. This never happens in real life.
I’ve been a professional pilot for 30 years. 20 in the military, 10 in an airline. I don’t think I have ever once heard this happen. I don’t know where the developers got the idea from that this is a regular event, but it isn’t.
Occasionally, flight crew will mis-hear or mis-set a cleared altitude, but ATC, in my experience, pick up on that straight away before any level bust (they can see what is set in the altitude window on the MCP in any modern airliner, courtesy of ADS-B).
If the developers are looking for background chat between ATC and the AI aircraft, I can tell them that 90% or more of the time it is aircraft checking in, being sent to the next frequency (though that one is happening less now with CPDLC), and being given radar headings or directs to waypoints further down their flight plan, often the one at the next FIR boundary.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time. It seems to be a fundamental part of the AI ATC script.
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YOUR SETTINGS
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