I did another flight YPAD to YMML. This time I landed and was taxiing (I didn't get PF3 atc again as per before). Halfway to the gate which wasn't far away, it began giving me clearance to land (hadnt done that before). It went through all the clearance protocols. It then went into the landed protocols i.e. contact tower when clear of active runway. Made me standby and then cleared me to the gate. this was the first time that I had heard all of the clearances to land and to go the taxi. It was basically catching up to FSX and what I had done and was playing catch up.
It appears that PF3 is behind the rest of FSX. FDC is working well and doing what it should, when it should, so it has to be something with PF3. New logs attached. I also tried it this time with a standard plane and not the liveries I normally use.
19-Mar-16 4:34:12 PM: 930 - Current Waypoint No: 9 Dest: 9 iLanding: 0 iClimb=0 Dist to next WP: 15.66808
19-Mar-16 4:34:12 PM: 930 - Ulat: -37.4121738061813 ULon: 144.787636275863 UHdg: 164 UAlt: 5152 UIAS=251 OTG=False
19-Mar-16 4:34:14 PM: 190 - Transcript: 'Abex 4 Continue present heading expect vectors for the ILS runway 16 Approach '
19-Mar-16 4:34:21 PM: 750 - Transcript: 'Roger Abex 4 '
19-Mar-16 4:34:41 PM: 640 - Transcript: 'Abex 4 Turn right heading 170 '
19-Mar-16 4:34:46 PM: 130 - Transcript: 'right to 170 Abex 4 '
19-Mar-16 4:34:56 PM: 580 - Transcript: 'Abex 4 Descend and maintain 3 thousand 5 hundred '
19-Mar-16 4:35:02 PM: 000 - Transcript: 'Out of 4 thousand for 3 thousand 5 hundred Abex 4 '
19-Mar-16 4:35:11 PM: 440 - Transcript: 'Abex 4 Reduce speed to 140 '
19-Mar-16 4:35:16 PM: 750 - Transcript: '140 Abex 4 '
19-Mar-16 4:35:22 PM: 420 - Current Waypoint No: 9 Dest: 9 iLanding: 1 iClimb=0 Dist to next WP: 10.4265
19-Mar-16 4:35:22 PM: 420 - Ulat: -37.4983032111653 ULon: 144.806119879756 UHdg: 159 UAlt: 3489 UIAS=257 OTG=False
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But now you did not turn right and did not stay at 3500ft, but stayed at 160 and landed without clearance!
On the ground, you vacated the runway and turned to heading 170, which PF3 waited for and continued vectoring:
19-Mar-16 4:43:39 PM: 780 - Current Waypoint No: 9 Dest: 9 iLanding: 1 iClimb=0 Dist to next WP: 0.4445063
19-Mar-16 4:43:39 PM: 790 - Ulat: -37.6663733289372 ULon: 144.848154604742 UHdg: 170 UAlt: 442 UIAS=3 OTG=True
19-Mar-16 4:43:40 PM: 850 - Transcript: 'Abex 4 Turn right heading 130 '
19-Mar-16 4:43:45 PM: 690 - Transcript: 'right to 130 Abex 4 '
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But this time PF3 noticed that you caught the ILS and cleared you for landing:
19-Mar-16 4:44:05 PM: 510 - Current Waypoint No: 9 Dest: 9 iLanding: 1 iClimb=0 Dist to next WP: 0.4359249
19-Mar-16 4:44:05 PM: 510 - Ulat: -37.6666287810449 ULon: 144.848134316848 UHdg: 172 UAlt: 442 UIAS=1 OTG=True
19-Mar-16 4:44:06 PM: 370 - Transcript: 'Abex 4 Cleared for the ILS runway 16 Approach Contact Tower on 120.5 when established. descend on ILS '
19-Mar-16 4:44:17 PM: 700 - Transcript: 'until established on the ILS runway 16 descend on ILS Contact Tower on 120.5 when established. Abex 4 '
19-Mar-16 4:44:32 PM: 670 - Transcript: 'Tower Abex 4 On the ground IFR Landing '
19-Mar-16 4:44:38 PM: 180 - Transcript: 'Abex 4 continue Approach you're number 1 for Landing '
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I see two errors here:
- You did not follow ATC's instructions.
- ATC did not "politely" ask you to go around, but instead patiently waited for you to follow their instructions.
And PF3's warning about the last waypoint being too close is not a big problem, but you should then take care to set a useful altitude for it and maybe even start to reduce speed earlier than being told. The assigned altitude was 5000ft, but you needed to be at 3500ft only 5 miles later (at the FAF), this caused you to speed up to 257 knots (as expected when diving so fast) and making these 5 miles in just one minute. I suggest declaring a missed approach when you run into such situations, but maybe it would still have worked well if you had followed the vectoring?
But it looks like the technical problems with your installation are solved, congratulations!
Dave, can you do anything about ATC waiting for the aircraft reaching the correct vectors?