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At first I thought this was my mistake somehow, but since the last update (wasn't happening before), ATC seems to be giving a final descent altitude of 2000ft, irrespective of the elevation of the arrival airport.

Flying in to Bangalore VOBL just now, I was again instructed to descend to 2000', but the airport is at an elevation of 3000' (so I should have got an instruction for 5000').

Or is PF3 being given incorrect information somehow? Runways.csv has the airport at 3000', I checked...

Thanks

There appears to be something strange going on with your flight plan. If you look at the first few line you will see the altitude is set to 27'

Quote:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="AceXML" version="1,0">
<Descr>AceXML Document</Descr>
<FlightPlan.FlightPlan>
<Title>VCBI to VOBL</Title>
<FPType>IFR</FPType>
<RouteType>HighAlt</RouteType>
<CruisingAlt>36000</CruisingAlt>
<DepartureID>VCBI</DepartureID>
<DepartureLLA>N7° 10' 47.93",E79° 53' 4.83",+000027.00</DepartureLLA>
<DestinationID>VOBL</DestinationID>
<DestinationLLA>N7° 10' 47.93",E79° 53' 4.83",+000027.00</DestinationLLA>

In fact you can see it's duplicated all the data for your departure

Quote:

<DepartureLLA>N7° 10' 47.93",E79° 53' 4.83",+000027.00</DepartureLLA>

<DestinationLLA>N7° 10' 47.93",E79° 53' 4.83",+000027.00</DestinationLLA>

Yes, I just noticed that myself: the flight plan that I loaded into PF3 before connecting to the sim (.pln format) has the destination at 3000' at the end - I'll copy it below (for general perusal! I know you can see it from the log). No idea why I end up with the same elevation for the destination as the departure at the start of the plan..

As I say, it isn't a one-off, I had a similar thing last time I flew (a different flight plan). Looks like the programme I use to create my flight plans (Little Navmap) may have gone wrong at the last update. I'll contact their support and see what they say.

Thanks Dave.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="AceXML" version="1,0">
<Descr>AceXML Document</Descr>
<FlightPlan.FlightPlan>
<Title>VCBI to VOBL</Title>
<FPType>IFR</FPType>
<RouteType>HighAlt</RouteType>
<CruisingAlt>36000</CruisingAlt>
<DepartureID>VCBI</DepartureID>
<DepartureLLA>N7° 10' 47.93",E79° 53' 4.83",+000027.00</DepartureLLA>
<DestinationID>VOBL</DestinationID>
<DestinationLLA>N7° 10' 47.93",E79° 53' 4.83",+000027.00</DestinationLLA>
<Descr>VCBI, VOBL</Descr>
<DeparturePosition>04</DeparturePosition>
<DepartureName>Colombo Bandaranaike</DepartureName>
<DestinationName>Kempegowda Intl</DestinationName>
<AppVersion>
<AppVersionMajor>10</AppVersionMajor>
<AppVersionBuild>61472</AppVersionBuild>
</AppVersion>
<ATCWaypoint id="VCBI">
<ATCWaypointType>Airport</ATCWaypointType>
<WorldPosition>N7° 10' 47.93",E79° 53' 4.83",+000027.00</WorldPosition>
<ICAO>
<ICAOIdent>VCBI</ICAOIdent>
</ICAO>
</ATCWaypoint>
<ATCWaypoint id="BI646">
<ATCWaypointType>Intersection</ATCWaypointType>
<WorldPosition>N7° 51' 47.00",E79° 55' 36.99",+017045.29</WorldPosition>
<ICAO>
<ICAORegion>VC</ICAORegion>
<ICAOIdent>BI646</ICAOIdent>
</ICAO>
</ATCWaypoint>
<ATCWaypoint id="ATETA">
<ATCWaypointType>Intersection</ATCWaypointType>
<WorldPosition>N9° 19' 6.00",E79° 38' 55.01",+036000.00</WorldPosition>
<ICAO>
<ICAORegion>VO</ICAORegion>
<ICAOIdent>ATETA</ICAOIdent>
</ICAO>
</ATCWaypoint>
<ATCWaypoint id="TTR">
<ATCWaypointType>VOR</ATCWaypointType>
<WorldPosition>N10° 46' 7.22",E78° 43' 29.17",+036000.00</WorldPosition>
<ICAO>
<ICAORegion>VO</ICAORegion>
<ICAOIdent>TTR</ICAOIdent>
</ICAO>
</ATCWaypoint>
<ATCWaypoint id="ADKAL">
<ATCWaypointType>Intersection</ATCWaypointType>
<WorldPosition>N11° 50' 54.00",E78° 16' 49.01",+029451.34</WorldPosition>
<ICAO>
<ICAORegion>VO</ICAORegion>
<ICAOIdent>ADKAL</ICAOIdent>
</ICAO>
</ATCWaypoint>
<ATCWaypoint id="BL810">
<ATCWaypointType>Intersection</ATCWaypointType>
<WorldPosition>N12° 35' 13.40",E77° 58' 58.45",+015154.26</WorldPosition>
<ICAO>
<ICAORegion>VO</ICAORegion>
<ICAOIdent>BL810</ICAOIdent>
</ICAO>
</ATCWaypoint>
<ATCWaypoint id="VOBL">
<ATCWaypointType>Airport</ATCWaypointType>
<WorldPosition>N13° 12' 18.85",E77° 42' 18.64",+003000.00</WorldPosition>
<ICAO>
<ICAOIdent>VOBL</ICAOIdent>
</ICAO>
</ATCWaypoint>
</FlightPlan.FlightPlan>
</SimBase.Document>

.. yes, clearly a problem with the flight plan: I've edited them all with a text editor and reported the problem to the developer (who fortunately is just as 'on the ball' re. support as Oncourse!).

Thanks and sorry for wasting your time..

That's great, thanks for letting me now and it's never a waste of time... got me a little worried at first though!