So I blew through the cleared altitude. I’m at 36000 cruise altitude, i’m not going back down to 9000 that will burn up my reserve. Is there a way to just have ATC forget about it and continue with the flight or do I have to cancel IFR?
“Please call this phone number upon arrival at your destination. Good Day.” 
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Isn’t there a command to request an increase in assigned altitude?
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Yes but ATC will give you a standby until it recognized you at the previously assigned altitude.
I was able to request a cruising altitude decrease and it seems to have disregarded the 9000 feet thing. Seems like I tried that before and it didn’t work but it did this time. And I’m not calling ATC they wouldn’t like me when I’m drunk.
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When I want to fly IFR and “simulate” real life experiences, I log into my VatSim account and fly with “Live” controllers. It brings the MSFS game to Life and might be worth exploring if you are not a member.
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There does indeed need to be an “Unable” option that you can give to ATC
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I think the answer lies in your first sentence.
As long as ATC within MSFS isn’t spot on, I fly without them.
Vatsim and Pilot edge are the better options here.
The built in ATC also feels unrealistic since you’re forced to communicate by clicking items in a menu.
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I don’t expect ATC to be totally realistic. Clearly Vatsim et al will always be the best option for the most true-to-life experience (for those with the knowledge and interest to go that far). But, just as a quality of life fix, and given how often the ATC is wrong, it would be nice if it wouldn’t nag so much. Just give us one “please accelerate your climb/descent” and then let it go. That really shouldn’t be difficult, right?
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And Vatsim would help in which way? He is climbing above clearance and the human controller just ignores it?
ah you seem to be a gamer rather than Simmer. Well dont register a flightplan if you have no intention of following it. ATC wont bother you.
When you log a plan the Sim assumes you want to follow that plan.
As Homer would say: DUH !
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Chaezaa,
Well, if he is on an IFR flight plan with VatSim and intentionally deviates from the controllers’ instructions, I suppose he/she may be asked to please comply with their instructions or they could terminate his VatSim connection and he will simply disappear from the VatSim sky.
“Frankfurt tower, this is LH0815: i give you a number to call after i landed” would be proper procedure with our ATC 
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The implementation of ATC into MSFS is exceptionally annoying. If you spawn yourself on the runway it’s forced on you and you basically have to tune in another frequency to shut it up. If it goes havoc en-route you can’t tell it to shut up or try again or unable, you have to leave the frequency. Vatsim is an intentional use, so using it means to comply deliberately.
I always tune 121.5 into COM1 the first thing starting a flight so I’m spared with any ATC nonsense.
Let it go?
Sure:
ATC is broken in MSFS - don’t even try it. It’ll be fixed at some point. We all know that.
Remember at all times; You’re the Pilot In Command.
If ATC give you something to do that you don’t like;
Say; “Unable” - and switch them off.
It’s your responsibility to land that aircraft - not theirs.
Ephedrin87, I genuinely dont follow this. I always start on the runway. (I dont understand the spawning thing. I always thought that was something fish do 
) Sure ATC will tell me cleared to take off. Then after a while I get the ‘you are leaving my airspace, frequency change approved’ message. I acknowledge and never hear from ATC again.I dont touch ATC from then on.
I follow my paper flightplan worked out in Little Navmap and l fly the beacons and using a small utility I wrote to work out some descend numbers, start my descend at the right place and speed to intercept localizer and glidepath at my chosen airport.
There is no need to bother with ATC so I dont. So I dont quite understand your post. Maybe you are filing a flightplan in the Sim? That I dont.
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