Dumb question, but what program are you talking about? ???

This would be a good place to pose this question - in my now extensive flying around the FS-world, I notice that my approach vectoring is never uniform. It seems like at the larger airports I get vectored in a long holding pattern first, in other airports I go right in. (For example, my home base of Buffalo, I get to go right in)

And go-arounds are even rarer. Is FS2004 calculating the time you're expected in and working you into some sort of order? Because if that's the case, I am quite impressed!

-Seth

I think it is pretty cool how the aircraft will not turn their stobe lights on, until they get cleared for take off.  Just like the big boys do....

Yup, for once the M$ boys have got it right. I'm really impressed. I think they must have a couple of "real" pilots doing the testing/advising now 8)

Bit of a mis-understanding.  In my company, we dont turn the Strobes on until we roll onto the runway.  Its nothing to do with being cleared for take off.  Most companies follow suit.

Think about it.  If you are on single runway ops, and you line up, with low vis or little light, and need to hold, and the aircraft on approach is getting closer, it will probably not see you without your flashing strobes.

Universally, strobes will be turned on once "entering an active runway".  Then, everyone knows you are on the active, whether you are moving or not

Regards.

I turn mine on just before contacting Ground. Same reason.

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Which carrier?


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It was actually off a new carrier in Frisco Bay just across from the existing FS9 one. So I had 2 carriers working with AI in the Bay. Pretty spectacular.

Now the problems. There's something weird about the existing Frisco carrier. It's a nice model, bit small, but somehow it distorts the scenery. Sometimes you run the sim and it's fine. Next time you get scenery errors which I can't go into yet because I've got the scenery working using new techniques that I want to keep to myself until I've published the package.

I'm just about at the point where I think I'll add a 3rd carrier in the Bay (southern end) so I can have 2 landable carriers running AI in the Bay that you can flightplan to/from and land/takeoff from and either leave the original one landable but with no AI or even delete it completely (maybe I'll give people the option to do that).

Trouble is I can't keep playing around much longer - it's already taken more time than I can really afford right now.

The other thing is that aircraft waiting to go are told to hold short even when incoming aircraft are still several miles out or even still on base. If you have a couple of incoming the waiting ones often then disappear which is very annoying.

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I've been using that New Zealand carrier and
Carrier2004.  I've had some troubles with Carrier2004
as the deck is sometimes not "hard".

How many carriers in Roger's package? Where are they
positioned?  As you can tell I can hardly wait.   

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