multiprops wrote on Feb 13
th, 2012 at 12:28pm:
I really cannot choose my "worst" mistake, because I'v made so many...
however, the most surprising for me was when FSX ATC crashed me into a mountain in the north of Africa. "descend to 4000"... yeah, right! I was astonished: I honestli tought that could not happen!
Default ATC is infamous for that and for other great choices of flight, like giving you clearance to leave cruise level (
above 30.000 feet) only 50 miles away from the landing place, giving you clearance to land at about 17.000 feet, while executing a meteor-like descent, and instruction to contact tower above 15.000 feet (
like happened to me once, and set the linchpin of my decision of leaving behind Default ATC for good).
In spite of my breakneck descent profile I reached 5000 feet well AFTER the runway zoomed away under my 747 (
with which I decided that time to allow for a breaking or 250 Kias under 10.000 rule, too. Kept the plane redlined from start to end of the descent, in spite of full airbrakes / engines idle rule applied during the whole license-revoking maneuver, and still it wasn't enough). Maybe they (
said default ATC) thought I was piloting some sort of Japanese Anime starship, to be able to do such a descent as the one they wanted me to do, at the time.
Another reason I don't use it anymore is that ever since I've begun piloting mainly radial engined old propliners, and for realism's sake those MUST adhere to descent profiles that the default ATC is totally unable to comprehend, let alone control.
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