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The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator Server
- sosuke 5y agoI feel like I'm missing most of the story. I only get the hero image and one paragraph of content.
- Bancakes 5y agoOf course it has to be a disgruntled mod that ruins the fun.
- gffbkugf 5y ago>they do it for free
- monkeywork 5y agoI would hope they "ruin the fun" for free because charging for that service isn't likely a great idea.
- zatertip 5y agoLike Freenode in the skies :-)
- orzig 5y agoSnakes on a plane, the Geekquel
- capitalbreeze 5y agoArturas Kerelis sucks wow
- fnord77 5y ago> A community of air traffic control roleplayers gets torn apart by a lawsuit, and the founders scatter, trying to pick up the pieces. it's kinda fascinating such a community exists
- bobthepanda 5y agoPeople like all sorts of things. There are various reasons to enjoy this but not actually become ATC: - its fairly common that people don’t want to ruin their hobby by making it their job - ATC requirements are pretty strict for application - US ATC is high stress and stagnant pay, and that combination means there is an ATC shortage which means that the employed ATCs are being worked very hard
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- dkarp 5y agoFor those interested, I think these are the main virtual ATC services: https://www.pilotedge.net https://www.pilotedge.net - paid service, used by student pilots https://www.vatsim.net https://www.vatsim.net - totally free with regional chapters all over the world. Have their own certification system for pilots and ATC. Both of these work for multiple different flight simulators and not just MS FS. They work through an in game plugin that connects to their servers. Both take things pretty seriously.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoMany do it to get practice speaking English, which makes it mostly a win-win as players get to have controllers who take the game seriously and the controllers get to hone their language skills. It's only a problem if someone's accent is very heavy or they haven't achieved enough English skills yet to be able to communicate the basics of ATC but neither happens very often.
- mulmen 5y agoSometimes I can tell where my ESL coworkers learned English based on phrasing and idioms. It would be interesting to come across someone who honed English skills with such a domain-specific application.
- zentiggr 5y agoAnother story of Anyone can get involved in just about anything on the internet Some of those people are misguided or unstable or actively malicious Chaos ensues in all its various forms We humans are just an interesting bunch. With a technology that gives everyone access and a voice, we get to see the whole range of human behavior.
- kahrl 5y agoWhat a gem. This is the guy: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/arturas-kerelis/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/arturas-kerelis/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturask/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturask/
- SLWW 5y agoDiscord mods. Unfortunately bristling with power-hungry fantasies in my experience. I've only known one mod of a discord that i actually liked, and I don't think he knew that he had mod privileges quite frankly.
- asquabventured 5y agoFor anyone not familiar with flight sim ATC, this guy is the GOAT - https://youtube.com/channel/UCfoK9LI9vmQQ36zqsFZtNJQ https://youtube.com/channel/UCfoK9LI9vmQQ36zqsFZtNJQ
- ngcc_hk 5y agoGetting into Sim world is hard. It would be better if we have beginner one.