So, I was flying a medevac last night in the Cessna 208B and everything was going fine. I think I was about 40min into the flight. Suddenly, the doc asks the nurse for a vitals check then says something to me like “It’s nothing you did, but we need to get this patient to the nearest hospital.”
Next thing I know, my mission objective in the little window disappears and the only option left in it is “Hold ALT + N to skip to descent.”
What was I supposed to do there?
There isn’t an option in the ATC window to declare an emergency and ask ATC for routing to the nearest airport that’s close to a hospital, which is what I think would happen in real life.
Last night, I went with “skip to descent” and that messed up the mission because during the descent I kept getting instructions from ATC to climb and maintain FL220 and when I used the ATC window to try to request a different approach (in hopes it would override the odd instructions), I got a crash-to-desktop.
No clue how I was supposed to handle the doctor’s instructions, and I can’t find info online about it.
I had the same mission at one point and ended up aborting it, however, I think you need to open the communications window, cancel ifr, and select a new airport (look at the tablet to find a near airport that would accommodate landing) and set the radio to the ATC on that airport. I am going to look for that same mission tomorrow to see if that works.
They tell you the airport on the comms.
Just happened to me. I pressed enter when prompted, and I issued a “pan pan pan” but then ATC ignored me completely. I pressed ALT + N to skip to decent, and it failed my mission. It’s still way too buggy for diversions like this.
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I wasn’t told anything over comms, unfortunately. As I said, the doc told me “we need to divert to the nearest hospital” and that was it.
I asked this question on the MSFS Discord server and I was told I should play those missions with the augmented reality “floating blue brackets” on because what likely happened was those brackets changed on their own and I missed it because I usually play with them off. Frustrating.
When I got it, I had the blue brackets on, they did not change.
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Oh, interesting. Good insight. So this issue isn’t just about the brackets being on or off.