Am I supposed to get a FARP Landing clearance?

[AJH63]

Hi,

I've set up a FARP for landing practice with an Air Traffic Control function.

The ATC gives me the the direction, distance and QFE of the FARP when I initially check in with them but never gets me to go across to the "tower" for a landing clearance.

Am I supposed to get a FARP Landing clearance? Or is it just taken that when I check in I can land there?

[Ignition]

Don't bother with ATC in DCS, it's a 20yr old system which never got updated. Even more, the FARP mechanics in DCS are bare bones. The biggest landing platform it's also 20yr old with textures of a 1990 game.

[Volator]

Assuming that it works the same way as for the normal airfields, you only get a landing clearance (even when actively requesting it, which you can do via the ATC menu) if you are in a rather small defined area in front of the threshold, i.e. on centerline and glidepath to the runway. If you are too far off to the sides or above GP, there will be no clearance. Since a FARP doesn't give you any cues where the "centerline" and the "glidepath" might be, the very, very basic ATC system will not recognize you in the correct position for a landing and thus not issue a landing clearance.

[AJH63]

Hi Volator, your comments about centreline and glidepath gave me an idea to try.

I looked at the orientation of the FARP, in this case 180 degrees, went out a few miles and came toward the FARP on a  heading of 180 and got a call to go across to the tower for landing clearance, as I got closer the tower gave me a clearance to land.

So the solution to getting ATC in a FARP is to fly on the FARP heading a few miles out.