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When you hit hotkey 8 did you YOURSELF request an airport or did ATC just give you one? My experience has been when I hit the key it is my voice telling ATC where I am going, regardless of what I really want. Yes, that's the way it works. Your pilot voice requests to amend your flight plan, but at ...

FSS "8" still has me choosing an airport (last flight had me tell ATC to ammen my plan to land at airport "8FD2" which as best I can tell does not exist, according to airnav.com and does not show on the GPS map). 8FD2 is Flying Horseman Airport, which may now be closed. It was r...

I use a low-tech solution but it may be helpful as you start out. You can find the pf3_disp.dat file which is located in your PF3\PF3_Displayer folder, open it with a text editor, and print the file. This will list the default hotkey functions according to the ATC facility you are tuned to. As Dave ...

Problem is that 6FL8 is 34 miles away, a private airstrip, uncontrolled and requires permission to land. It does not show on the FS map. In addition, there is a good airport X60 only 8 miles away. The first thing I would do is make sure your PF3 database is updated, because it sounds like there may...

So, it seems manually requesting Cleared to Finals might only work either after the start of STAR or after receiving Vectors. I had expected it to work at any point in the flight if tuned to Control, Radar or Approach. Again, have I found a bug? I only request Cleared to Finals after reaching the l...

I immediately contacted Approach and requested Cleared to Finals. I got no response from Approach. I took a fast look at your log and once again, the problem seems to be for some reason your COM frequency is changing and you were no longer in contact with Approach. You were handed to Approach on 12...

You can set up your aircraft at the departure airport, load a flight plan in PF3, and connect to the sim in the usual way. Once AI traffic is active, you can manually tune the various PF3 frequencies and listen to the chatter. This would include Clearance, Ground, Tower, and Departure or Approach. Y...

Can I or can't I contact an airport other than the Departure and Arrival airports using PF3 ATC. I don't think you can simply tune another airport and make contact. If you tune FSS there is an option (Hotkey 8) to amend your flight plan to land at the next available airport. Once you do this you sh...

I gave that suggestion a try and it worked really well - thank you Dan! And it's given me a few more ideas too. Hi Martin, I'm glad the setup worked well. Hopefully there is a way to adapt the FP filter so it will work better with U.S. and Canadian flight plans, where the SID/STAR transition can be...

Didn't think that happened in the rw? I had both CAA and FAA controllers on the beta team at one point and it was never mentioned. I can say that we do use that format on VATSIM but I have never considered the difference significant. The PF3 clearance omits 'as filed' for the route, and transposes ...