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Probably more of a noob question, but why do I get azimuths away from the airfield...


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11 minutes ago, greyseal494 said:

instead of toward the airfield? I was flying a simple mission, call up Kobuleti, ask for azimuth, and it sends me 180 degrees away from the airfield...

That's pretty much standard procedure that unfortunately nobody ever explains to you. You aren't really routed to the airfield, but to the known 'reporting point' where you begin your standardized approach to an airfield's active runway. That's usually a couple of miles straight from the airfield's runway, in opposite of the landing heading, so you end up a couple of miles in front of the runway, ready for a straight in or precision approach (which, since for that you'd be on a VOR/TACAN would never require you to get an Azimuth, but I digress). That would be quite convenient if DCS implemented better ATC, right now it feels somewhat annoying. So just ignore, fly to the reporting point and hope that you'd recognize the surroundings so you can turn to final by yourself. Oh, and let's keep our fingers crossed that some day we get some game ATC that's better.

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