A wet afternoon, so another 'training' flight from Gatwick to Edinburgh, using the latest version of PF3 (3.10.50).
I stayed in VCP1 mode for the entire flight (I believe) and noticed what seem to be some anomalies in the ATC interactions:
1) I acknowledged the 'hold short' instruction when I checked-in with the tower at the runway holding point, but got no response.
2) I acknowledged the 'line up and wait' instruction, but again got no response.
I'm assuming that I need to acknowledge these instructions, but am happy to be told otherwise.
3) When I acknowledged the 'resume own navigation' instruction shortly after take-off PF3 showed (and spoke) the following:
(Exactly the same thing happened on the previous flight)
4) A little later the VCP responded automatically (twice) with the message 'Roger 126.85 Midland 737' when I was handed off to a new control centre.
5) A while later ATC issued the instruction 'Midland 737 Contact Manchester Control on 124.2' twice in quick succession.
I have a screen shot of this in the ATC log.
6) I was never handed over from Scottish Control to Edinburgh Approach.
When I acknowledged the '.. expect vectors for the ILS ..' message the response sent was 'Roger Line up and wait Midland 737', shown here:
I'm attaching the log which I believe should show all of the above - hopefully there is a simple explanation, probably finger trouble
Thanks,
Martin