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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://githu

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!

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!