OnCourse Software

Good evening everyone

Firstly I want to say that I am really enjoying PF3, but sometimes it confuses me. And this is one of those times, but please don't think I am moaning or saying there is a problem. I think that someone out there who knows more about PF3 and aviation will be able to answer my question.

Tonight I was on a flight EGPH to EGKK and I was climbing out of EGPH on the GOSA1D departure I made a left turn at FENIK, my flight plan (By PFPX) had a few way points on, what was nearly a straight line I decided to request a direct to LAKEY, just to get a few waypoints out of the way.

Anyway what happened when I requested a direct to, and subsequent ones was a reply from ATC of "Not available at this point in the flight". Okay fair enough I thought, I kept trying along my route with no success.

SO my question is does anyone know why this might happen, I am just curious to see if I might have done something wrong during my planning etc.

My logs and I believe you need the FPP folder. Both are attached for viewing

Cheers Rob

did not check you flightplan, just found this in the manual page 93 :

Quote:

This feature is subject to a few conditions...
1. It is only available whilst you're airborne
2. It is only available until you're actually on route to the last waypoint in
your flight plan
3. It is not available until after you receive your final vector from
Departure and a 'Resume own navigation'
4. It is not available during Oceanic procedures

All conditions of page 93 are met, so I think you found a bug in PF3.

The last time I requested a Direct To was in February with PF3 version 3.0.1 and it worked fine then, so either it is a new bug or only triggered by the special conditions of your flight.

Edit: Oh, not all conditions are met! I checked that PF3 detects that you reached further waypoints, but your log does not contain "resume own navigation". I'm not sure why.

Direct to function working fine here, like Thomas said not all the conditions are met

Thanks for checking into this guys!

Well there had to be a reason I couldn't do a direct to request. I don't recall resume own navigation been said, so I guess that's what it is then.

I'll listen out for it in my next flight

Cheers Rob