OnCourse Software

martinlest wrote:

Same again.
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I posted the log of the last time it happened..

martinlest wrote:

Same again. ATC tells me to descend on the ILS when I am still at 8000' and almost on top of the airport (a different one each time this happens). I need to be a 2-3000', not 8000 by then. I have the FAF set as I posted (2500') and ATC do ask me to descend to that level usually, but as I say, far too late. I am a past my last waypoint, so nothing I can do with the flight plan.. Why is ATC leaving it too late to request descent? Then they ask me to reduce speed to 200 or whatever: again, impossible - I have to more or less fall out of the sky with spoilers up to get any chance of making the runway (mostly I don't make it and have to circle to lose height) - hard enough to stay under 250 KIAS, let alone mange 170.

It's getting annoying now as it's spoiling so many flights and has been happening ever since I got PF3 (though not every time I fly). I posted the log of the last time it happened.. Hope you can help here. Can I tweak a setting or is there a glitch somewhere in the programme?

martinlest wrote:

If I can't find the log I seem to recall posting, I'll attach another one here next time it happens (it's not every flight, as I say, but quite a few).

21/03/2016 17:05:25: 820 - Transcript: 'Tower Easy 3208 at 7 Miles to the northeast at Flight Level 80 IFR Landing  '

Alt for WP:   8 -   RWY - 17000
Alt for WP:   9 -   XXX -  8000
Alt for WP:  10 -  EGAA -   269

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I would say that you have set the FL for your last waypoint too high.

martinlest wrote:

Same again. ATC tells me to descend on the ILS when I am still at 8000' and almost on top of the airport (a different one each time this happens). I need to be a 2-3000', not 8000 by then. I have the FAF set as I posted (2500') and ATC do ask me to descend to that level usually, but as I say, far too late. I am a past my last waypoint, so nothing I can do with the flight plan.. Why is ATC leaving it too late to request descent? Then they ask me to reduce speed to 200 or whatever: again, impossible - I have to more or less fall out of the sky with spoilers up to get any chance of making the runway (mostly I don't make it and have to circle to lose height) - hard enough to stay under 250 KIAS, let alone mange 170.

It's getting annoying now as it's spoiling so many flights and has been happening ever since I got PF3 (though not every time I fly). I posted the log of the last time it happened.. Hope you can help here. Can I tweak a setting or is there a glitch somewhere in the programme?