Direct to in simulator

[Freek Vandeursen 1101105]

When using the simulator in Euroscope I noticed the following behaviour. When [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igning headings, speeds, temporary altitudes etc in the aircraft tags the simulator accepts this as commands and makes the aircraft follow these commands. However, when I enter a fix or navaid in the scratchpad then the drawn route displays the route to the navaid but the aircraft remains flying it's current heading.

 

Is this the intended behaviour or should the simulator change the heading to fly to the fix / navaid?

[Todor Atanasov 878664]

Simply entering in the scratch pad wont do it. What you do is simply typing something in there but for ES that is not a active command. If you want to direct the acft to a point enter it via the COPX/FIR_COPX menu. Or add the "direct to" tag item and [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ign it a function "open next points popup list"

[Freek Vandeursen 1101105]

Thanks for the answer Todor. What confused me was that the drawn flight route does reflect the direct to, but the simulator ignores it. Wouldn't it make more sense to have the same behaviour for both simulator and route drawing?

[Todor Atanasov 878664]

What I mean is that ES doesn't recognise the scratch pad entry as a command for simulator (like turn heading, descend/climb and e.c.t), but does recognise it as a direct to. So it does what it should. But doesn't mean it is the best way Will add it to the bug list.

[Freek Vandeursen 1101105]

Thanks again for the quick answer Todor. The simulator does work great already, recognizing the directs would just make it even easier to use.