“But the current ATC does give you vectors for a visual approach…… but they are generally horrible.”
“Last time i was told to expect vectors to visual i continued flying all the way across the coral sea, ended up in austrailia and never heard another word from atc.”
This is sadly one huge drawback (for me) i found in MSFS - the old FSX or P3D ATC was better. It was not complex in terms of SIDs STARs and so on, but it worked.
Visual approaches right now are unuseable, at least here on my side (btw. i don’t use any addons).
When i’m say 20 miles away from the airfield, IFR mode and then request a visual approach from the controller it just keeps saying “remain current heading and altitude and expect vectors to visual”. The airfield comes closer, i then fly over it and beyond and no more word from ATC anymore. Last time i slewed backwards just out of curiostiy and during the backward slew (!) the ATC said i should decent but still no vectors for a reasonable approach. Seems to be something wrong to trigger it correctly in the first place.
One out of 10 tests i did, it routed me correctly to a somewhat useable base/final leg with enough distance and sane altitude, then asked if i had the runway in sight, i did and answered yes and then handed me off to the tower and i landed successfully.
1 out of 10 - Real showstopper right now…
When i think about it further, it wouldn’t even be needed to bring the whole FSX ATC back, they could just fix the visual approach mechanics and add a “simple IFR mode” option to the approach drop down menue in world map that behaves like the old IFR logic from FSX i.e. just leads you to a course to intercept the ILS.
I really hope ATC gets severe attention in future updates and patches, it really needs it.
Anyways, thanks for your votes guys…