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Author here. - I wanted to be a realistic as possible, hence the long callsigns. However, all you have to type is the shortest unique callsign and that aircraf

by zlsa 12y ago

Author here. - I wanted to be a realistic as possible, hence the long callsigns. However, all you have to type is the shortest unique callsign and that aircraft will be selected. - If the aircraft has a red strip, it wants to land; if it's blue, it wants to takeoff and depart the area. - The fix names are now bigger. - The runway names are bigger. I'll make them more obvious, too. - You cannot send delayed commands, just like real life. - You can type "baw1234 tu 90 d 3 sp 2"; like callsigns, you only have to type the unique first few characters of the commands.

lucb1e 12y ago
Thanks for the reply. Perhaps my comment sounded a bit too much like negative criticism, it wasn't meant that way. Re:re: - "cannot send delayed commands, just like real life". It's not standard to tell pilots to fly a certain path, e.g. to a point and then head south? (I'm not sure, that's why I ask.) - "shortest unique callsign" Yeah well, it might help to always make the first two or three characters unique, then you can be certain it always works without having to check the list. Realism is kept that way. - "you only have to type the unique first few characters of the commands" Yes, but it doesn't autocomplete while typing. Though I guess learning those abbreviations might be part of the game. In any case, thanks for making this. I've already mentioned some good points so I won't repeat myself :)
- 0xffff2 12y ago
  > Yeah well, it might help to always make the first two or three characters unique, then you can be certain it always works without having to check the list. Realism is kept that way. Unfortunately these two are fundamentally at odds. In real life the call signs are based on carrier (or tail number if no call sign is assigned). In the current iteration, there are two airlines, United (all of the UAL flights) and British Airways (all of the BWA flights), plus the Cessna "airline" that mimics general aviation craft by prefixing the call sign with "N".

by zlsa 12y ago

lucb1e 12y ago

Thanks for the reply. Perhaps my comment sounded a bit too much like negative criticism, it wasn't meant that way. Re:re: - "cannot send delayed commands, just like real life". It's not standard to tell pilots to fly a certain path, e.g. to a point and then head south? (I'm not sure, that's why I ask.) - "shortest unique callsign" Yeah well, it might help to always make the first two or three characters unique, then you can be certain it always works without having to check the list. Realism is kept that way. - "you only have to type the unique first few characters of the commands" Yes, but it doesn't autocomplete while typing. Though I guess learning those abbreviations might be part of the game. In any case, thanks for making this. I've already mentioned some good points so I won't repeat myself :)

0xffff2 12y ago
> Yeah well, it might help to always make the first two or three characters unique, then you can be certain it always works without having to check the list. Realism is kept that way. Unfortunately these two are fundamentally at odds. In real life the call signs are based on carrier (or tail number if no call sign is assigned). In the current iteration, there are two airlines, United (all of the UAL flights) and British Airways (all of the BWA flights), plus the Cessna "airline" that mimics general aviation craft by prefixing the call sign with "N".