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OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator

100 points by kqr 3y ago

kqr 3y ago
For beginners a recommendation is to (a) switch to a lower-activity airport, and (b) go through the tutorial, which is actually very well integrated with the gameplay.
- pncnmnp 3y ago
  Thanks! I'm still going through the tutorial, but this looks neat! I love ATC games. There are some other fun ones out there, like ATC-Manager-2 (https://github.com/sempostma/atc-manager-2 https://github.com/sempostma/atc-manager-2) and BSD's atc (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atc https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atc). On Android, I've had fun memories playing Endless ATC and Unmatched Air Traffic Control. One thing I've noticed about these ATC games is that they tend to be more radar-based than ground-based. I kinda made an attempt to create a ground-based ATC last year - https://github.com/pncnmnp/roger https://github.com/pncnmnp/roger. Also, tangentially, a few months back, I was browsing my local bookstore when I came across a poster on "Navitrainer" - this was a flight simulator from the forties - https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/navitrainer.html https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/navitrainer.html - fascinating stuff!
  - singleshot_ 3y ago
    Another fun experience: X-plane + VATSIM. Decent quality flight sim plus community of real-time simulated air traffic controllers.
    - jachee 3y ago
      To clarify here, the VATSIM controllers are real humans. The traffic is simulated, but also “real”, in that it’s human sim pilots flying “on network.” And the network is sim-agnostic. I’m still working on being good enough with my plane in MSFS to be able to fly online.
      - kqr 3y ago
        Yes, the idea of VATSIM is "There are people who want to play pilot simulators and there are people who want to play ATC simulators. What if there was a network protocol to link those groups together?"
  - atribecalledqst 3y ago
    There's a Japanese ATC sim series called "I Am an Air Traffic Controller" that I like. It's got a couple installments on the Switch and 3DS which is where I played them, but they go back as far as the PS1. Some but not all of them were localized (there is an English one on Switch) I think originally it was a PC game series, I've watched some videos of the recent PC installments and they look TOUGH. Much tougher than the console ones
  - kqr 3y ago
    Wow, BSD's atc was a neat way of discretising what's usually a continuous experience. Good to remember!
jmk123 3y ago
This game has been around for many years. I remember playing it for hours when it first came out and really enjoying eventually getting into a flow state.
- clippyplz 3y ago
  A couple of days ago there was a post for a site that would take you to hacker news on a totally random date; I had a look and ended up about 9 years ago. One of the posts I saw from then was this game! Many years indeed.
jiveturkey 3y ago
Wasn't there an ATC game for Apple ][? I vaguely remember playing it and loving that game. In 2024 I would like this game to have voice controls, with pilot voice responses. Sometimes the pilot could have poor english and do a wrong thing.
- maxcan 3y ago
  Near Miss. Fond memories. https://www.ebay.com/itm/175470605636 https://www.ebay.com/itm/175470605636
NoboruWataya 3y ago
Looks like a modern version of https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/bsd-games/atc.6.en https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/bsd-games/atc.6.en
- jayelbe 3y ago
  Good grief, I'd not seen this before and now I've lost an entire evening to it. Who'd have thought a game nearly 40 years old could still be so engrossing?! Thanks
khaki54 3y ago
Can you uhhh crash the planes into each other?
- kqr 3y ago
  Did you try? It should definitely be possible. Both near misses and fatal collisions lose you points.
  - adinb 3y ago
    Can you do intercepts? (Weapons director & Air Refueling sim!)
jxcl 3y ago
I had a fun 30 minutes with this but I cannot get the route or reroute commands to work at all. I have the map set to show the nav points but no matter how I tell them to route between nav points I always get "that route is invalid"
- kqr 3y ago
  If "rr dorit" and "rr xukla" work in isolation, then "rr dorit..xukla" with double dots should also work. Which step fails?
dogline 3y ago
Yeah, I forgot all about these kinds of games. I used to play something similar on Android, where you used your finger, so it was more game-ish, but it was a great mobile game. Anything like this for iOS?
- MichaelMug 3y ago
  I believe the game you're referring to is Flight Control, and it came out first on iOS back in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game) Fun game but not at all realistic. I was reminiscing about it and the closest thing I could find today was: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planes-control/id1015114550 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planes-control/id1015114550

100 points by kqr 3y ago

kqr 3y ago

For beginners a recommendation is to (a) switch to a lower-activity airport, and (b) go through the tutorial, which is actually very well integrated with the gameplay.

pncnmnp 3y ago
Thanks! I'm still going through the tutorial, but this looks neat! I love ATC games. There are some other fun ones out there, like ATC-Manager-2 (https://github.com/sempostma/atc-manager-2 https://github.com/sempostma/atc-manager-2) and BSD's atc (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atc https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atc). On Android, I've had fun memories playing Endless ATC and Unmatched Air Traffic Control. One thing I've noticed about these ATC games is that they tend to be more radar-based than ground-based. I kinda made an attempt to create a ground-based ATC last year - https://github.com/pncnmnp/roger https://github.com/pncnmnp/roger. Also, tangentially, a few months back, I was browsing my local bookstore when I came across a poster on "Navitrainer" - this was a flight simulator from the forties - https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/navitrainer.html https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/navitrainer.html - fascinating stuff!
- singleshot_ 3y ago
  Another fun experience: X-plane + VATSIM. Decent quality flight sim plus community of real-time simulated air traffic controllers.
  - jachee 3y ago
    To clarify here, the VATSIM controllers are real humans. The traffic is simulated, but also “real”, in that it’s human sim pilots flying “on network.” And the network is sim-agnostic. I’m still working on being good enough with my plane in MSFS to be able to fly online.
    - kqr 3y ago
      Yes, the idea of VATSIM is "There are people who want to play pilot simulators and there are people who want to play ATC simulators. What if there was a network protocol to link those groups together?"
- atribecalledqst 3y ago
  There's a Japanese ATC sim series called "I Am an Air Traffic Controller" that I like. It's got a couple installments on the Switch and 3DS which is where I played them, but they go back as far as the PS1. Some but not all of them were localized (there is an English one on Switch) I think originally it was a PC game series, I've watched some videos of the recent PC installments and they look TOUGH. Much tougher than the console ones
- kqr 3y ago
  Wow, BSD's atc was a neat way of discretising what's usually a continuous experience. Good to remember!

jmk123 3y ago

This game has been around for many years. I remember playing it for hours when it first came out and really enjoying eventually getting into a flow state.

clippyplz 3y ago
A couple of days ago there was a post for a site that would take you to hacker news on a totally random date; I had a look and ended up about 9 years ago. One of the posts I saw from then was this game! Many years indeed.

jiveturkey 3y ago

Wasn't there an ATC game for Apple ][? I vaguely remember playing it and loving that game. In 2024 I would like this game to have voice controls, with pilot voice responses. Sometimes the pilot could have poor english and do a wrong thing.

maxcan 3y ago
Near Miss. Fond memories. https://www.ebay.com/itm/175470605636 https://www.ebay.com/itm/175470605636

NoboruWataya 3y ago

Looks like a modern version of https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/bsd-games/atc.6.en https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/bsd-games/atc.6.en

jayelbe 3y ago
Good grief, I'd not seen this before and now I've lost an entire evening to it. Who'd have thought a game nearly 40 years old could still be so engrossing?! Thanks

khaki54 3y ago

Can you uhhh crash the planes into each other?

kqr 3y ago
Did you try? It should definitely be possible. Both near misses and fatal collisions lose you points.
- adinb 3y ago
  Can you do intercepts? (Weapons director & Air Refueling sim!)

jxcl 3y ago

I had a fun 30 minutes with this but I cannot get the route or reroute commands to work at all. I have the map set to show the nav points but no matter how I tell them to route between nav points I always get "that route is invalid"

kqr 3y ago
If "rr dorit" and "rr xukla" work in isolation, then "rr dorit..xukla" with double dots should also work. Which step fails?

dogline 3y ago

Yeah, I forgot all about these kinds of games. I used to play something similar on Android, where you used your finger, so it was more game-ish, but it was a great mobile game. Anything like this for iOS?

MichaelMug 3y ago
I believe the game you're referring to is Flight Control, and it came out first on iOS back in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game) Fun game but not at all realistic. I was reminiscing about it and the closest thing I could find today was: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planes-control/id1015114550 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planes-control/id1015114550