ATC vectors

I believe it's just an issue with FS9, it's only an approximation of ATC. 🙂

You're just gonna have to turn the aircraft towards the localizer yourself. That's what I do when I fly into congested airports. ATC tells me around 65 miles out that I'm clear for ILS aproach and gives me the hading for the intercept but it's always off for a couple of degrees. You wanna look for those circles on your GPS and fly into them so you get the ILS signal. Sorry for the terminology. Good luck

I thought that was fixed in the Update, 9.1. http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/downloads.asp

mypilot wrote:

I thought that was fixed in the Update, 9.1. http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/downloads.asp

Thanks everyone!

I'll install the 9.1 see if this goes away.

my problem with ATC is that they wait too long before letting me descend when near an airport. As a result, I'm still descending (at a very fast rate!) when I'm about 15 miles from the runway, where I should be capturing the glidescope, I'm WAY too high.

I don't want to zoom down while descending, because I want to observe the under 250knts when under 10,000feet.

MrSam wrote:

my problem with ATC is that they wait too long before letting me descend when near an airport. As a result, I'm still descending (at a very fast rate!) when I'm about 15 miles from the runway, where I should be capturing the glidescope, I'm WAY too high.

I don't want to zoom down while descending, because I want to observe the under 250knts when under 10,000feet.

It shouldn't be a problem going too fast under 10,000 feet, since you should have some flaps extended at that point (flaps help maintain your speed or slow you down even as you descend)... the ATC should do a good enough job of telling you how early to descend. How fast are you having to descend to intercept the glideslope? Normally you should be at around 5000 feet AGL to intercept it... if you're descending at more than 2200 feet per min then you might have a problem.

I decent at around 1500-1800 fpm and always intercept the glideslope. I don't recommend decending faster than this if you are using FSPassanger cause somebody's gonna be mad when you land.