OnCourse Software

These appear to be completely opposite to the way that are supposed to work in reality. A position report is delivered by the aircraft to a ground controller, usually when passing a waypoint. PF3 (and PFE before it) instead provide a position check by the ground controller to the aircraft. Either op...

Should the selection in the Oceanic Procedures dialogue by retained? I ask because I just tried to use it for the first time, selected the start and end points, selected save and started the flight. Nothing happened when I got to the start waypoint and by then PF3 had stopped responding. I went to h...

Whaaaaa.... doh! Y'know, you stare and stare at a piece of text and STILL you miss it! I'm looking at PF3 Display and just never read past the '/' on the D hot key line. What a pillock.

I shall now slink off to the back of the hangar, crestfallen!

Thanks, Dave...

Andy

Thanks. I will send a log, but I figure all you'll tell me is that I missed a WP! That much I've worked out! :) It's that little word 'somewhere'.... It rather defines navigation using a sextant! Actually, thinking about this some more... All it really needs is a direct-to request hot key key that a...

Dave, I've done more than that - I've bought it and have been using it since it came out. I'm also a long-time user of PFE. I'm afraid it doesn't do what you suggest. Unless I pass pretty much right over a waypoint, it doesn't acknowledge that I've passed it. I'm not talking about when under Oceanic...

This might seem a bit odd, but indulge me... What are the lateral crossing restrictions for passing a waypoint and can they be changed? I fly almost exclusively in the Classic era... BOAC and Northwest routes from the 1950s. During the early part of this period, for areas outside the US, navigation ...