I am tempted to get RC but was wondering if the RC5 upgrade was still being planned? Also do the ATC voices change as you fly into a different region? Anotherwords if I fly from the USA to Europe will the ATC from N.Y. sound and use different phraseology from an ATC in France??? Or do you have to preload your voice sets before each and every flight to a set region?Thanks...

You have to select voice sets for each flight but they are not region specific, eg if you fly from London Heathrow to Amsterdam, you will get UK controllers all the way across. There are German and Italian accents, but i don't think you can set them to trigger in a certain region, and you may get a German accent at London. If you fly from the USA to the UK, you have to select a voice set. You could mix UK and US controllers. And now the good news. You say you are tempted to go with RC, if you do, once you master it there is no going back to the default ATC.Also there is pre recorded chatter that sounds very realistic. If you fly in the US, you get US chatter same for UK..some French, and Dutch which is region specific. ATC add ons are very difficult to do realistically, because of all the different phrases that have to be pre recorded and then selected by the computer. RC is the best attempt that i have come across. I am confident that you won't regret your purchase.

I am tempted to get RC but was wondering if the RC5 upgrade was still being planned? Also do the ATC voices change as you fly into a different region? Anotherwords if I fly from the USA to Europe will the ATC from N.Y. sound and use different phraseology from an ATC in France??? Or do you have to preload your voice sets before each and every flight to a set region?Thanks...

v5 is still being worked on. if you can imagine what it took to convert the code from APLC adventure code to VB6, and then to add all the features that went in between v3 and v4, and multiply that by 10, that is the amount of work i've chosen to undertake.if i had been smarter, i might have only added 1 or 2 features in 5, and then added 2 or 3 more in v6. but i did what i did, and it is what it is.if v5 coming out net week, no. next month, no. next quarter, no. when it is ready, yes.jd

if v5 coming out net week, no. next month, no. next quarter, no. when it is ready, yes.jd

Sounds like you've been taking lessons from PMDG. :( Thanks for all your hard work

Same comment from here, too -- you should do this each and every release.. you can bet the community's looking forward to this one..will be, without any doubt, the most realistic standalone ATC experience EVER. Take time to finish your masterpiece.. I can hardly wait to see the 5-star reviews...What I'm most looking forward to is your implementation of VFR -- maybe a VFR takeoff, fly to my destination, shoot a few instrument approaches, cancel IFR and land. You can bet on me being one of your first customers...

So we can hope it comes out before next summer?

Because V5 is offering much more versatility and complexity in response to our users and verification of the accuracy of their implementation, jd had to redo a majority of the code involved from the previous versions to implement the new features. Rather than just satisfy a small portion of user requests he decided to implement a greater amount of those requests. Add the requests from our "picky" beta testing group including real world GA and airliner pilots plus current and recently retired ATC staff and you will find a much better fulfilling product that really takes a lot of time to develop and debug.

Sounds good. Any chance for some in-sim screenshots?

Too early yet. The GUIs are not finallized as they change with the feature set.

Sounds good. Any chance for some in-sim screenshots?

Sounds good. Any chance for some in-sim screenshots?

the only difference you will see "in-sim" will be the hiearchial menu system.

Can you elaborate on that a bit?

The more I hear about version 5, the more excited I am. You can count on me being a launch customer for sure!Cant wait to see the result of all your fine work.