Greettins, I am very interested in RC4 but have a few questions that I hope someone could help me with. I do a lot a spotting at my favorite airport and would like to know while spotting from a position at the airport if I would be able to hear and see RC ATC communicate and control AI to AI interactions or must I be flying with a flight plan for this to happen? Thanks

Hi and thanks for your interest in RC4. When I first installed my AI traffic package, which is My Traffic X I wanted to see what planes would show up. So I fired FSX up, RC and went to JFK and position my plane on a taxiway near where the active was that day. I watched all kinds of AI interaction between ground and the AI. RC does give departing and approaching AI to land on certain runways depending on the wind. RC does NOT control AI put follows what is going on with the FS AI engine that does control AI. The voice interaction you hear are Radar Contact controllers and chatter pilots. However there is not interaction between AI planes. While taxing you will hear ground controllers advise you to give way to another AI plane. Improving ground awareness is an important enhancement to the next version of Radar Contact. I think you will find that there is quite a bit of chatter on all phases of flight, clearance, ground, tower, approach, departure and enroute center ATC. If you have more questions please ask them here most of us on the beta team are on the forum everyday. Bob

Thank you for your speedily reply, but just so I understand clearer, RC4's ATC could replace the FSX ATC engine in the form of AI pilot to controller interactions such as taxi clearance, takeoff clearance. landing clearance, etc; is this correct?

That's not quite correct. RC4 does not replace the FSX ATC engine. You use RC in lieu of the FSX ATC. This is done by not checking any of the ATC options in FSX, that simply does not allow you to interact with the FSX ATC, but its still working. In this scenario RC4 now becomes your ATC program interacting with FSX, but not through the FSX ATC engine. Hope I answered this clear enough Cheers Bob

I'll add one more point of clarity. Disabling ATC does not turn off the ai engine that controls them. RC can see what they are doing. If you are using FSX and Ultimate Traffic 2 for FSX, set its AI spawning distance to maximum. You in hearing ai comms with UT2 may for a while hear an ai tail number as opposed to a flight number until they get a taxi clearance.