I was flying IFR in Alaska over the mountains, and Anchorage ATC got very overzealous with their guidance. No sooner did they have me climb to a certain altitude, but as soon as I reached it, they called again to have me descend again. Over and over, up and down. I stuck it out for over 30 minutes before I couldn’t take it anymore and cancelled the IFR. The AI ATC apparently gets very confused over mountainous terrain!
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It gets “confused” (to be generous) over the flat lands of the Midwest. I have a 7 minute hop set up to test various IFR approaches, and they’ve told me to go to 14,000. I couldn’t get up there, let alone back down in the time I have. I just ignore their repeated calls that I need to expedite my climb. By the way, asking for a lower altitude gets no response from them. Eventually they tell me to descend to the FAF altitude and it’s usually good from there. Suspect we’ll get moved to the ATC thread! Regards
I’m flying IFR in Alaska right now, and it’s doing it again. Perhaps because I selected low-level over the mountains, and it’s taking me quite literally. LOL. Now I’m ignoring it, because it wants to drop me down in between two large mountains quite close together, and I know it’s just going to want me to climb again as soon as I get down to 3500ft. I think it’s hazing me…But if I went in and manually adjusted the cruise altitude, it wouldn’t always try to get me back down to 3000, which was the cruise altitude I requested when I built the flight plan. It would be nice if the plan would give you elevations of your route so you could intelligently input a good low-level cruise altitude.
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. Dang old heads are always hazing people.
Now I’m over a taller mountain, but since I ignored it’s previous order to descend to 3,000ft, it still wants me to do that. If I do, I’ll smack into the mountain.
i have had this happen a ton today, what i noticed helped was requesting an alt 1000ft above your current altitude and then they will be happy with that and not yo yo you anymore
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I fly in Germany and so far I think the IFR is pretty terrible. It takes me up to the destination, but then doesn’t tell me to descend, nor where to go to align for landing. 20miles out I’m still at 21.000ft, then it tells me to go down to 7.000ft, 5 miles from landing it complains why I’m not at 15.000ft.
I get this so far every IFR flight. It never tells me to descend in time, no alignment to the runway for landing, like FSX did.
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