Microsoft Flight Simulator
43 Achievements
1,000
1000+h
PC
Xbox Series
By the Book
Request landing clearance from ATC at a towered airport, without using ATC assistance.
5
5.15%
How to unlock the By the Book achievement in Microsoft Flight Simulator - Definitive Guide
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SETUP
I suggest having "All Assists" enabled in the assistance settings under "Options." However, make sure you turn off "Delegate ATC to AI" under the Piloting tab. Next go to the world map and find any airport, preferably a starred airport to guarantee that the airport has a tower. Do not depart from the airport but instead right next to the airport.
EXECUTION
Doing this correctly will allow you to spawn in the world already flying so all you need to do is fly towards the airport that is close by. Open up the ATC panel, if it is not already open, from the drop down menu on the top of your screen. (It should be a tower icon on the left of the menu.) In the ATC menu select "2: Nearest Airport List" followed by whatever airport you are closest to. Then hit "Request Full Stop Landing". Wait for a response from the tower then hit "Acknowledge." Proceed to ask for directions for landing, wait for a response to confirm landing. The achievement should unlock before you even land, however landing with your engine turned off should earn you the Deadstick Landing achievement as well.
I suggest having "All Assists" enabled in the assistance settings under "Options." However, make sure you turn off "Delegate ATC to AI" under the Piloting tab. Next go to the world map and find any airport, preferably a starred airport to guarantee that the airport has a tower. Do not depart from the airport but instead right next to the airport.
EXECUTION
Doing this correctly will allow you to spawn in the world already flying so all you need to do is fly towards the airport that is close by. Open up the ATC panel, if it is not already open, from the drop down menu on the top of your screen. (It should be a tower icon on the left of the menu.) In the ATC menu select "2: Nearest Airport List" followed by whatever airport you are closest to. Then hit "Request Full Stop Landing". Wait for a response from the tower then hit "Acknowledge." Proceed to ask for directions for landing, wait for a response to confirm landing. The achievement should unlock before you even land, however landing with your engine turned off should earn you the Deadstick Landing achievement as well.
11 Comments
I tried following this guide and was a little vague and what I was doing seemed to make the achievement not pop. What I think I was doing wrong that isn't specific is I was choosing an airport as my destination then spawning near that airport and requesting a runway and landing but it never popped. The exact steps I finally ended up doing to make it work and some are listed in the guide above.
1. WELCOME screen--OPTIONS--ASSISTANCE--ALL ASSISTS--choose PILOTING drop down--turn off DELEGATE ATC TO AI (this will now show a CUSTOM setup)--F11(to save)
2. WELCOME (by clicking house icon top left)
3. WORLD MAP--choose plane (I flew Cessna Citation CJ4)--choose a location near an airport that has a tower and left click a few miles from that location on the map and choose SET AS DEPARTURE. I chose near KDFW by Dallas Texas as I am familiar. This will show Custom departure in From drop down box at top of map. The TO drop down box I did not choose.
4. FLY--READY TO FLY
5. open AI CONTROL (pilot head icon on shortcut bar) and make sure CONTROL AIRCRAFT is chosen to make this easier and MANAGE RADIO COMMS are off also.
6. open ATC either with the tower icon on shortcut bar or by pressing "Scroll Lock" on you keyboard as that is the default keyboard shortcut key.
7. Choose [NEAREST AIRPORT LIST] if the list doesn't show the airport you want then you may need to choose [AIRPORTS FARTHER FROM YOU] until the airport you are wanting to land at appears on the list. Example I am going to use KDFW and had to click [AIRPORTS FARTHER FROM YOU] a few times because there were a lot of small airports between my spawn point and KDFW.
8. I'm using KDFW airport choose [DALLAS-FT WORTH INTL (KDFW)]
9. choose [TUNE DFW TOWER ON 126.550] tower frequency may be different at your airport.
10. choose "REQUEST FULL STOP LANDING"
11. wait for tower to confirm and give landing information
12. choose "ACKNOWLEDGE PATTERN ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS"
13. when tower confirms landing again you choose [ACKNOWLEDGE LANDING CLEARANCE] and the achievement should pop even before landing.
This is very easy as you don't even have to fly if you have AI to control aircraft.
What I think the issue I may have been having trying the guide above was I was choosing the airport I wanted to land at so maybe I wasn't getting the without ATC assistance because it was part of my flight plan already to land at that airport.
1. WELCOME screen--OPTIONS--ASSISTANCE--ALL ASSISTS--choose PILOTING drop down--turn off DELEGATE ATC TO AI (this will now show a CUSTOM setup)--F11(to save)
2. WELCOME (by clicking house icon top left)
3. WORLD MAP--choose plane (I flew Cessna Citation CJ4)--choose a location near an airport that has a tower and left click a few miles from that location on the map and choose SET AS DEPARTURE. I chose near KDFW by Dallas Texas as I am familiar. This will show Custom departure in From drop down box at top of map. The TO drop down box I did not choose.
4. FLY--READY TO FLY
5. open AI CONTROL (pilot head icon on shortcut bar) and make sure CONTROL AIRCRAFT is chosen to make this easier and MANAGE RADIO COMMS are off also.
6. open ATC either with the tower icon on shortcut bar or by pressing "Scroll Lock" on you keyboard as that is the default keyboard shortcut key.
7. Choose [NEAREST AIRPORT LIST] if the list doesn't show the airport you want then you may need to choose [AIRPORTS FARTHER FROM YOU] until the airport you are wanting to land at appears on the list. Example I am going to use KDFW and had to click [AIRPORTS FARTHER FROM YOU] a few times because there were a lot of small airports between my spawn point and KDFW.
8. I'm using KDFW airport choose [DALLAS-FT WORTH INTL (KDFW)]
9. choose [TUNE DFW TOWER ON 126.550] tower frequency may be different at your airport.
10. choose "REQUEST FULL STOP LANDING"
11. wait for tower to confirm and give landing information
12. choose "ACKNOWLEDGE PATTERN ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS"
13. when tower confirms landing again you choose [ACKNOWLEDGE LANDING CLEARANCE] and the achievement should pop even before landing.
This is very easy as you don't even have to fly if you have AI to control aircraft.
What I think the issue I may have been having trying the guide above was I was choosing the airport I wanted to land at so maybe I wasn't getting the without ATC assistance because it was part of my flight plan already to land at that airport.
By HXT 71 on 05 Sep 2020 19:34
I got this using full AI control. Don't know if it was a fluke or not because I wasn't trying for this.
By Bobo daMunkee on 24 Aug 2020 08:32
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I tried for over an hour and this is the only way I could get it to work:
World map
Set your destination TO: KDFW
Then set your FROM destination to KDAL which is a little to the right on the map.
As soon as you start, go to Travel To in your top bar, and go to descent. Immediately open your ATC Menu and tune to KDFW tower,
Request a full stop landing,
Acknowledge the landing instructions,
and then confirm your landing.
The achievement should pop immediately when doing that. Any questions, feel free to comment on this solution.
World map
Set your destination TO: KDFW
Then set your FROM destination to KDAL which is a little to the right on the map.
As soon as you start, go to Travel To in your top bar, and go to descent. Immediately open your ATC Menu and tune to KDFW tower,
Request a full stop landing,
Acknowledge the landing instructions,
and then confirm your landing.
The achievement should pop immediately when doing that. Any questions, feel free to comment on this solution.
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Perfect!
By Broon43 on 06 Mar 2022 22:22
