Export and ATC

[skysail]

Hmm, as far as I can see we are setting the runway correctly.

The altitude, however, is intentionally not set - it is not supported Looking at the flightplan specification, you only find altitude restrictions - which is not the same thing. Altitudes are meant to be calculated by the flight computer, or assigned by ATC. This includes step climbs, which can sometimes be included in the flightplan that SimBrief outputs.

It is a tricky situation that has been discussed before:

Longitude Simbrief import with incorrect altitudes

Ok, so I investigated this a bit further during the development of our G1000 plugin and after some discussions with the beta team, it seems that this is not as simple as it might look, for several reasons: The altitudes you get from SimBrief, just like real life, are approximations based on the performance numbers for the selected aircraft. These numbers can vary from aircraft to aircraft, even if they are the same model. This is also a factor in simulators, as the simulator aircraft doesn’t …

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I’ll keep the incorrect runway in mind for when we do some refactoring of the ATC export. I am 95% sure that it is just the ATC ignoring the flightplan, but we can verify that this is the case when we rewrite this logic from scratch to support WT avionics!

Kind Regards,
Malte