No date promises per the boss. As of today the features you list are on the high priorities list.

Looks like you guys are pretty far deep into the development. Is there a chance for a 2011 release? What would you say are the major objectives for v5? SID/STAR handling, VFR?

I know about current interaction in v4.3, but it is not enough. RC v4.3 doesn't control AI on ground.

There has already been a lot of code written and tested for RCv5 that improves your own ground handling procedures. And of course RC freezes AI at strategic locations to prevent runway incursions etc. But realistically I'm not sure how much further RC can keep "controlling" you and every other AI around you. Real word controllers do this everyday and get their brains in knot by the time they go home. Conflict resolution even on the ground is very hard to code and test. Maintaining seperation standards is not RC's priority, RC is providing an ATC environment for us while...truthfully speaking, we pretend to fly.Also be aware of RC moving into the relm of seperating traffic - I cetainly don't want to be approaching an airport and then get told I'm no.36 to land all because FS decided to clump all the AI together :)And you won't believe how much trig JD had to relearn before staring work on something that seems as simple as progressive taxi instructions :)Subs

Progressive taxi! Cool. Subs or JD, just as an example, could you give me an example of a typical trig problem a prog taxi algorithm has to solve. I'm a cognitive scientist and highly interested in the implementation of complex algorithmic processes.

Will RC V5 pronounce new callsigns that we add to traffic? For example:I added Alitalia Express in my traffic pack.[fltsim.X]title=AI ATR 72sim=PAIATR72model=texture=atc_heavy=0atc_airline=AZAXui_manufacturer=AIui_type=ATR 72ui_variation=description=Project AI ATR 72atc_parking_types=atc_parking_codes=AZAXWill it be possible to add my own callsign in RC callsign list? For example Alitalia Express

And you won't believe how much trig JD had to relearn before staring work on something that seems as simple as progressive taxi instructions :)Subs

Reading that makes me wish I worded my last responce to the AES developer a tad different. Although, he drew 1st blood, not me :PI'm glad at least someone is working on it, although I still stand by what I said in the AES forum and feel they too should make it available,,, more-so than RC in my opinion.

Aerosoft does provide charts with their airport sceneries but usually based on somewhat outdated real charts that many of their developers used. In boxed products they can be printed or .pdf versions. Downloaded products they are .pdfs.Non-affiliated developers (published by other companies) that Aerosoft just sells as a dealer may or may not have charts.To look at charts derived from the scenery from within FS9 try this utility:Install this first. Use the German Mirror: http://www.fsmanuel.com/downloads.php?cat_id=3Then install the application. Again use the German Mirror: http://www.fsmanuel.com/viewpage.php?page_id=4The first install, manuels service pack 3, will try to install some OS files that your malware application may try to block. Allow it and if MS states it is an older version then say no. These are Visual Basic modules. Only install those if newer versions are not present.I am running the database builder now and it does take add-on scenery into consideration.Be sure to follow the install sequence as stated in the documentation otherwise the module will fail.EDIT:On starting with a parked flight it correctly showed the position of my aircraft. However it did not show my updated add-on version with the new runway and terminal. Oh, well . . .There is a payware utility from DBS Systems called Airport GPS. The complaint was it does not show taxiway IDs. In the FS9 forum I think there is a thread about this. You can search for threads that were participated in by ShezA who authored many freeware airports such as KLGA.

Aerosoft does provide charts with their airport sceneries but usually based on somewhat outdated real charts that many of their developers used.

The charts were not my point... But since the idiot went there, I then decided to as well. No not all of Aerosofts airports come with charts, for the record, and the ones that do (like my post if you read it) do not always bother to show any changes they made to their sometimes unfinished airports. Anyway, that seems to be the one thing people are getting hung up on, man I wish I never mentioned charts. It's more about "Having a proggresive taxi to the rwy isn't realistic" crap... So what? Who cares? Unrealistic? Haha.Anyway, never mind Ron, you too appear to have missed my main point.As for the other stuff you mentioned, thanks, but I only use FSX.I have an alternate method for my progressive taxi you can read about here.

For me, it is not the progressive taxi that I really would like (I have not used any form of it for about two years, ever since I jumped away from default FSX ATC). But I really would like to have taxi clearence with a specific path. To me that is what is important, and that is what is realistic. And for that to be practical, RC would have to have some fort of ground control, so that it doesnt give me clearence to taxi say from KORD Terminal 3 to RWY 27L via Alpha, when it will have an aircraft using ALPHA to go south, instead of BRAVO. Now I quickly learned that Radar Contact really has no desire to maintain seperation, but is more about simulation the interaction rather than the function of ATC, however more interaction with AI aircraft would certainly be welcomed by me. I use Ultimate Traffic II, which has the nice feature to restart AI traffic from the add-on menu, which comes in handy when I turn down a taxi way to find a plane heading right at me, but it would be much nicer if RC could help me out so I never have to use that feature. Would also love to have RC intervene when a plane gets so close to me that my TCAS starts yelling "CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB", or at least give me the option to wish my controller good luck when he goes up for review due to seperation incidents, much like FSDO will get on the horn to yell at me because I ignored a go around order

I use Ultimate Traffic II, which has the nice feature to restart AI traffic from the add-on menu

Just wanted to mention something I know you already know (if not I'd be amazed), but having that "nice" feature in the addon menu isn't even needed, since any access to a menu or escape will reset the traffic due to the way they use simconnect. Rather than going through the trouble (ok, not trouble) to press Alt, then menu, then restart ai, just hit escape twice as fast as you can,,, done. Traffic is now reset for UT2 :(

While I am well aware that UT2 resets traffic when ever you leave the sim, that idea has never crossed my mind.  Shows my thought patterns I guess.  Your method is much faster I bet, will give that one a try on my next flight should an AI pilot play taxi chicken with me.

For me, it is not the progressive taxi that I really would like (I have not used any form of it for about two years, ever since I jumped away from default FSX ATC). But I really would like to have taxi clearence with a specific path. To me that is what is important, and that is what is realistic. And for that to be practical, RC would have to have some fort of ground control, so that it doesnt give me clearence to taxi say from KORD Terminal 3 to RWY 27L via Alpha, when it will have an aircraft using ALPHA to go south, instead of BRAVO. Now I quickly learned that Radar Contact really has no desire to maintain seperation, but is more about simulation the interaction rather than the function of ATC, however more interaction with AI aircraft would certainly be welcomed by me. I use Ultimate Traffic II, which has the nice feature to restart AI traffic from the add-on menu, which comes in handy when I turn down a taxi way to find a plane heading right at me, but it would be much nicer if RC could help me out so I never have to use that feature. Would also love to have RC intervene when a plane gets so close to me that my TCAS starts yelling "CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB", or at least give me the option to wish my controller good luck when he goes up for review due to seperation incidents, much like FSDO will get on the horn to yell at me because I ignored a go around order

RC5 has detailed taxi instructions implemented, as you say, but *in addition* JD seems to be doing prog taxi as well -- will help me find my way round the big hubs for sure!

RC5 has detailed taxi instructions implemented, as you say, but *in addition* JD seems to be doing prog taxi as well -- will help me find my way round the big hubs for sure!

Sounds good to me.

RC5 has detailed taxi instructions implemented, as you say, but *in addition* JD seems to be doing prog taxi as well -- will help me find my way round the big hubs for sure!

I might have mistakenly gotten everyone's hopes up on this. What has been coded and implemented in RCv5 so far has been taxi instructions (taxi via A, B, C to the runway and back to the gate from the runway) when you contact ground for taxi clearance. You'll still have to find out for yourself where A, B, C taxiways are.So what's progressive taxi? Is that the controller telling you Left on Alpha, Right on Bravo etc as you're actually taxi along?Subs

I might have mistakenly gotten everyone's hopes up on this. What has been coded and implemented in RCv5 so far has been taxi instructions (taxi via A, B, C to the runway and back to the gate from the runway) when you contact ground for taxi clearance. You'll still have to find out for yourself where A, B, C taxiways are.So what's progressive taxi? Is that the controller telling you Left on Alpha, Right on Bravo etc as you're actually taxi along?Subs

No no.... progressive taxi for me is "taxi via A, B, C to the runway..." instead "taxi to holding point to the runway" :(

I might have mistakenly gotten everyone's hopes up on this. What has been coded and implemented in RCv5 so far has been taxi instructions (taxi via A, B, C to the runway and back to the gate from the runway) when you contact ground for taxi clearance. You'll still have to find out for yourself where A, B, C taxiways are.So what's progressive taxi? Is that the controller telling you Left on Alpha, Right on Bravo etc as you're actually taxi along?Subs

What you describe is what I most would like to see, simply because it makes things more realistic.As far as progressive taxi is concerned, you got the right idea. If a pilot is at an airport which he is not familiar with, he can request progressive taxi, which in that case the ground controller will sort of hold his hand. "Take a left at taxiway Alpha coming up, then keep going", sort of thing. FSXs default ATC simulates this by displaying a line of arrows depicting your assigned taxi route. I am betting that when people here request a progressive taxi, they want that graphical presentation, or visual cues on what the route is.