Hi Dave,
PF3 is does not seem to be behaving the way it used to. For years PF3 has paused at TOD without a hitch. It would give you initial descent and then pause. I know it suddenly stopped working because of a change in an MSFS update and you had to put in a fix for this, but now although PF3 is pausing the SIM OK, sometimes more than once but never at TOD.
I have had PF3 in recent flights allocate a runway that resulted in me not just flying into a stream of departing AI traffic but a runway with a tail wind of 23knots (EIDW) (not in the latest beta I must add). But since this had happened more than once I am wary now of PF3 arrival runway and when PF3 gave me a runway I was not expecting I immediately tried to switch runway using Cntr+Shft+W and I ran into the biggest gripe I have always had about PF3 – using context sensitive commands – instead of clickable menu items. CS+W has umpteen different functions and the number of times I have disabled TGS and entered CS+W to change departure runway and for some reason TGS is not being disabled therefore I can’t select a different departure runway. This had never been a problem for arrival runway until this time when being suspicious of PF3s runway selection I tried to change it to the runway I was expecting but CS+W was giving me the option to warp ahead instead of selecting a different runway. Now the winds were 2 knots so either runway was OK but I didn’t know that and my point is I was not able change runways because PF3 wouldn’t let me.
I have recently switched from FSUIPC to SPAD.NEXT and I have found certain keyboard commands like ALT+2 that spad.next is firing to select a custom camera the 2 is being picked up by PF3 as a hot key command. It has not been an issue up to now because the hot key seems to be just to report position but it could potentially cause big problems depending on what PF3 thinks is being requested.
What I would do to have clickable menu items in PF3.
One other thing I have noticed that has changed is when vacating runway I was previously being given taxi to gate instructions without having to hold position I can’t find what determined the instructions you to got whether to continue or to hold position.
Thanks in advance