Please synchronize ATIS and ATC

The most frustrating thing for me is to tune an airport ATIS about 80 nm out for latest runway. Setup navigation and descent plan only to have ATC use a totally different runway once contacted to land.

I may be doing this all wrong but I do not use arrival airport and ATC on startup. I startup cold and dark at the gate. Destination airport is entered into FMC but not approach or runway. I use com-2 for ATIS information about 90nm out. About 50 nm out I can generally contact the airport for final landing instructions. More often than not the airport generally shows up about 35 nm out. Rarely have I ever been given the same runway from ATC that is given with ATIS.

I’m probably overreacting but it should not be that hard for both systems to read from the same table.

PLEASE FIX THIS…

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I don’t think so – I also find it badly NOT WORKING Correctly, which, to quote a popular phrase, “Is a total Immersion Killer”

I totally agree. The whole thing is a mess.

The cold brutal fact is:

FIXING ATC does not generate Income, it just eats into profits …

so don’t hold your breath.

If the amount of work that went into the Reno AirRaces, had gone into ATC, then the ATC would be near PERFECT by now.

If you want GOOD ATC, go to Vatsim.
If you want GREAT ATC, go to Pilot Edge.

Just do not EVER expect MSFS 2020 to have ATC as good as you can get from a Trained Human Controller at Pilot Edge.

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https://www.asobostudio.com/careers/atc-flight-planning-programmers-flight-sim-251

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I encourage you all to learn how to fly on VATSIM. Not only is your ATC problem solved, it’s also five times as fun.

Sure, i only fly on vatsim. But that is no excuse to not fix ATC. And the smsll airports in the oregon/washington area are never online anyway, so vatsim atc does worse than ingame up there, lol

Don’t forget to mention that the runway you’re cleared for usually has a tailwind or a quartering crosswind from behind your airplane…

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I thought WT were going to take on the ATC ???

Not sure, they are busy enough with all the flightplanning and garmin stuff and the planes they want to improve…

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