19-07-2009, 11:58 PM
I always fly with Radar Contact as well as FSP. Generally RC does a great job at traffic sequencing, but I recently did a flight in which a
plane could not get off the runway in time and I was ordered to GA. By the time I flew around and landing on the next attempt and parked I
ended up about 20 minutes behind my scheduled arrival and FSP socked me with a large penalty.
The theme of FSP seems to be to promote safe flying. To get hit with a large penalty because I was late but flew a very successful GA,
seems to not get the priority straight. I could have ignored ATC and just landed and most likely avoided the other plane (it was at the far
end of the runway and was going to turn off soon), but I followed the proper procedure. Just something to consider maybe tweaking on
the next version.
Mike
plane could not get off the runway in time and I was ordered to GA. By the time I flew around and landing on the next attempt and parked I
ended up about 20 minutes behind my scheduled arrival and FSP socked me with a large penalty.
The theme of FSP seems to be to promote safe flying. To get hit with a large penalty because I was late but flew a very successful GA,
seems to not get the priority straight. I could have ignored ATC and just landed and most likely avoided the other plane (it was at the far
end of the runway and was going to turn off soon), but I followed the proper procedure. Just something to consider maybe tweaking on
the next version.
Mike