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This is a lot of fun. I've always been a huge fan of flight sims, but I never realized that ATC was just as much fun. Just a few notes: * All the planes enter

This is a lot of fun. I've always been a huge fan of flight sims, but I never realized that ATC was just as much fun. Just a few notes: * All the planes enter at 90 degree angles. I assume this is intentional, but it would be nice to have semi-random entry angles. * There are a fixed number of planes in the simulation. It would be more challenging and fun if more planes would arrive while I'm taking care of the others. * The words are small and hard to read. All in all I think this is a really cool simulation. I can see myself wasting many more hours on it. Thanks!

dsl 12y ago
If this is something you find interesting and like flight sims, you should check out some of the live ATC groups. http://www.bostonvirtualatc.com/ http://www.bostonvirtualatc.com/ and others allow you to work as a controller for a virtual airspace populated by human "pilots."
- asherdavidson 12y ago
  It's funny you mention BVA. I joined them many years ago (before FSX closed gamespy) and I flew with them quite a bit. I think I was just a little intimidated by how professional they were. I did a few of their lessons, and then I went back to free flight in the offline sim where I could take off the from the taxi ways :).
  - astrobe_ 12y ago
    I flew virtually with real life general aviation pilots, some of them assuming the role of the ATC in the sim; or else players would proceed like with uncontrolled airstrips in real life: announcing take-offs, landings, etc. on the "frequency" (a channel on a teamspeak server, one for each airport). For someone like me who is has never flown a plane, it added kind of an RPG aspect to the simulation.
    - RoseO 12y ago
      I used to work on quite a large Flight Sim website a few years back and a lot of our users would do this. It gets interesting when you have 20+ people in an area because people do not fly as perfectly as shown in any ATC simulator.

dsl 12y ago

If this is something you find interesting and like flight sims, you should check out some of the live ATC groups. http://www.bostonvirtualatc.com/ http://www.bostonvirtualatc.com/ and others allow you to work as a controller for a virtual airspace populated by human "pilots."

asherdavidson 12y ago
It's funny you mention BVA. I joined them many years ago (before FSX closed gamespy) and I flew with them quite a bit. I think I was just a little intimidated by how professional they were. I did a few of their lessons, and then I went back to free flight in the offline sim where I could take off the from the taxi ways :).
- astrobe_ 12y ago
  I flew virtually with real life general aviation pilots, some of them assuming the role of the ATC in the sim; or else players would proceed like with uncontrolled airstrips in real life: announcing take-offs, landings, etc. on the "frequency" (a channel on a teamspeak server, one for each airport). For someone like me who is has never flown a plane, it added kind of an RPG aspect to the simulation.
  - RoseO 12y ago
    I used to work on quite a large Flight Sim website a few years back and a lot of our users would do this. It gets interesting when you have 20+ people in an area because people do not fly as perfectly as shown in any ATC simulator.