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In FS2004 when you climb or descend how come atc notifies you when to continue climbing or descending at 200 feet before your selected altitude. For example say I'm flying from Boston to New York and my cruisng altitude is 20000 feet, on the ground atc tells me to climb and maintain 11000 feet but when I get to 10800 feet they tell me to climb to 20000 feet but buy then my aircraft is already leveling out. Is there anyway to change this? Because I know in fs 2002 atc gave you at least 1000 feet notice before climbing or descending to your altitude. I hope this explains everything without confusion. Thanks for the help.

Well, for traffic reason a real ATC may decide to keep you on a intermediate altitude or flight level as long as necessary. As for the glitch you write about... no way around that. This is the PERFECT M$ ATC. So perfect they think it is, they simply raised it from FS9 and put it in "the cross" with no variations whatsoever.

A solution you can find if you decide to fly online or (maybe, as I never used it) buy Radar Contact, but as long you use the default ATC, you have to shoulder its shortcomings like all the other default ATC users.

Hello!Well we know that one of the things,that it could be inproved on fs is ATC.and we see that on that way to change altitude is , first you're on a flight plan, so what they think is that you,re on autopilot( according to procedure(correct me if im wrong) airline engage autopilot at 1500-2500 fett after take off???(i know thats diferent from pilot to pilot and from rule to rule (like weather and visibility))So when they tell you that , probably they know that you going to rotate the knob from the alt. selector, and if you do it when they say you will "catch" the plane before it levels.
Well thats my opinion.
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