OnCourse Software

Hi to all!

I am a new PFE user, and I find this program quite a step-up over FSX ATC.

I have a few questions about arriving/departing from uncontrolled fields: yesterday I had a flight from LIPX to LIBC (Verona to Crotone, Italy) and LIBC has no APP nor TWR. I had a STAR set up for LIBC, and after correctly issued descent instructions ARTCC tells me to contact a frequency of 0.0 MHz (!!). I tried, once on final (I was on a VOR IAP approach), to tune and speak on LIBC unicom (FSX freq. 119.1) hitting "0" without any results. I landed anyway.

Departing from the same airport, I first contacted FSS 122.20 asking to open FP and then, still on the gorund, I asked ARTCC freq. hitting "4": the answer was again 0.0 MHz !!! Still no way to speak on LIBC unicom on 119.1.

This is an extract from file PF2000 - LIBC to LIPX

+--------+-------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
|WP IDENT|CLRNCE |GROUND|TOWER |UNICOM|MULTCM|FLTSVC|APPRCH|DEPART|CENTER|
+--------+-------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
|00 LIBC |Q0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |122.90|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |123.40|
|01 SOMAS|Q0.00 |0.00 |119.70|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |118.80|118.60|133.25|
|02 SOMAS|Q0.00 |0.00 |119.70|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |118.80|118.60|133.25|
|03 SOR |Q121.95|121.90|118.50|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |120.95|118.60|128.80|
|04 TEA |Q0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |122.90|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |134.20|
|05 BOL |Q0.00 |0.00 |122.10|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |131.25|
|06 BOA |Q0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |122.90|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |124.20|
|07 BOA |Q121.70|129.90|120.80|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |120.10|118.60|134.75|
|08 PE373|Q0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |122.90|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |134.75|
|09 GAZ |Q121.70|121.75|118.65|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |122.10|118.60|133.70|
|10 LIPX |Q121.70|121.75|118.65|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |122.10|118.60|133.70|
|11 LIPX |Q121.70|121.75|118.65|0.00 |0.00 |0.00 |122.10|118.60|133.70|
+--------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+

in which I see that center freq. is reported correctly 123.40 and not 0.0: what about center freq of 0.0?
As for my air announcements: maybe I mistakenly entered 119.1 instead of 122.90 before making my announcement. But is not PFE supposed to take freqs from FSX database?

Thank you for your help!

Paolo

Paulo,

You are not alone! I have this problem too, not on every flight to an uncontrolled airport but about once in three such flights. To date I have not figured out what is causing it.

I'm comforted that it is not peculiar to my system. My most recent was at SBVH Vilhena (add-on AFD file with gates, same comms as original).

It seems that few other users fly to/from uncontrolled airports, hoping Dave M has the answer.

John

Thank you John,

at least I am not the only one experiencing this problem! I admit that the few flights I made to/from controlled fields have been uneventful and quite smooth, prompting me to prefer PFE to others non voice recognition atc addons so far.
But since I fly mostly GA aircrafts it could be common for me to hit uncontrolled fields: last flight was actually the first one to a minor airport since I have PFE, and immediately I ran across this issue, making me upset.

Hope Dave answers, it may be helpful for you and others as well!

Paolo