I had a nice little flight today from NW Florida Beaches to Daytona Beach (I'm jealous for sunshine...) and with no SID to take from this fairly new airport I was pleasantly surprised to hear Tyndall Departure give me the following instruction as I was headed towards SZW to take jetway J2 eastward:

Climb and maintain one nine thousand join airway juliet two contact jacksonville center one one niner point one

Now it's one thing that the TTS engine allows controllers to refer to navaids by their "names" and not just by their IDs. E.g., Departure told me to "fly direct Seminole" and not "fly direct Sierra Zulu Whiskey." But this was a very nice extra that I hadn't anticipated. Has anyone encountered this before? I fly via lo- and hi-altitude airways a lot, but I don't recall being told to join one before.

This shows the flexibility of the engine in my eyes. I had those named airways more than a few times now and the navaids in some procedures are also named by their actual names and not abbreviations when you e. g. follow some STAR. VoxATC than defines some waypoint to report when passing and uses the name of an NDB or something like that. This waypoints then defines the change from Approach to Tower for example.Very nice feature in my eyes.

Not only that, but sometimes when I'm not too busy flying a departure (or just sitting at my stand) I swear that I can see / hear departing AI aircraft flying actual SIDs - not just the standard AI tactic of "takeoff and fly directly towards your destination a/p."

Not only that, but sometimes when I'm not too busy flying a departure (or just sitting at my stand) I swear that I can see / hear departing AI aircraft flying actual SIDs - not just the standard AI tactic of "takeoff and fly directly towards your destination a/p."

Yep - I found zillions of examples in my log file... for instance....

IN 2972567 From :american four seven six: american four seven sixIN 2973145 From :american four seven six: cleared toIN 2973410 From :american four seven six: tampa internationalIN 2973893 From :american four seven six: airportIN 2974081 From :american four seven six: eugene eight runway one six rightIN 2974907 From :american four seven six: departureIN 2975141 From :american four seven six: then as filedIN 2975469 From :american four seven six: squawkIN 2975625 From :american four seven six: three zero two four