Vectoring off stacks

Max

Whenever I put an aircraft into a hold and then use the dct function and then leave heading xxx degrees it just turns to fly the heading and skips the waypoint and it kind of messes up my sequences is there a way to resolve it?

Graham

You put an aircraft into a hold then tell it to route direct but leave on a heading? Apologies, slightly confused!

Max

For example in the real world theg will say turn left back to lam leave lambourne heading 270 so just trying to replicate that

FewCloudy

I would normally issue this as two or three separate commands.

Cancel hold
DCT LAM
Leave LAM H270

Bit more long-winded perhaps but it gets the job done. Perhaps if you cancel the hold the aircraft will fly to LAM anyway so you can skip step 2, not sure.

CloggyUk

Hi. The way FewCloudy describes is the best way to mimic what they do in real life.

If you use the ‘DCT’ it will turn to LAM immediately (**EDIT This does not happen, see new post below). If you use ‘cancel hold’ it will complete the racetrack to LAM.

Cheers, C

Max

When i do dct lam it cancels the hild straight away, they fly the heading without completing the orbut

CloggyUk

Hi Max

I don't really understand what you mean. I have had a little test session.

-If you tell an aircraft routing towards LAM from SABER direction to Leave H260, the label will show L260. When they get to LAM, the label changes to H260 and the HOLD is cancelled and it disappears from the Hold List.

-If just do 'cancel hold' it disappears from the hold list, HOLD is no longer in the label and it will resume on it's own nav on the coded route after LAM.

-If it is in the Hold, and you do Direct LAM, nothing happens, it just continues the holding pattern.

-If you issues a Heading when it is in the HOLD, the label shows that heading and the Hold is cancelled. The aircraft will turn to that heading. In the specified direction or the shortest turn if no direction is specified.

As mentioned before, the Holds and the aircraft behaviour in the Holds is a bit tricky sometimes. The previous developers have tried to improve this, but were never able to completely solve it.
If an aircraft is in the hold, it considers this holding fix the be the next fix. Once you cancel the hold, it looks for the next waypoint in the coded route. Hence trying to routing it back to the holding fix doesn't really do anything, as the aircraft thinks it is routing there anyway. The fact it is following the racetrack to get there, is not a factor.

If you issue a 'leave' instruction too to close to the fix, things go wrong. As long as an aircraft is near a fix (2-3nm) it thinks it is at the fix. As far as I am aware, this is coded in the base software, not in the variables and therefore can't be changed. So when issuing a 'leave' instruction, wait for the aircraft to be away from the hold fix.

Not much more I can think of on this subject to be honest.

cheers, C

Max

I want it to turn back to the hold, like in real life how they do half a lap but it skips lam and flys the heading from it current pos

CloggyUk

Max that is not possible as far as I am aware.