ATC/Copilot combo?

[GodAtum 69]

Which one of these combaos would you recommend for ATC and co-pilot. i already sue FS2Crew for the PMDg 737 and love it.

 

MCE + PFE Deluxe

MCE + Radar Contact

MCE + VoxATC

Its Your Plane + PFE Deluxe

Its Your Plane + Radar Contact

Its Your Plane + VoxATC

[Guest]

You might also keep a close eye on ProATC/X which is still a work in progress but it's getting better week by week.

[Jarkko 59]

As you mentioned, you can't go wrong with FS2Crew. I have used the following combos (ATC + CO):

 

Radar Contact + IYP (It's Your Plane)

Radar Contact + FS2Crew

 

VoxATC + IYP

VoxATC + FS2Crew

 

I love to speek to my computer, so I tend to use VoxATC. IYP also allows you to "talk" to ATC.

 

VoxATC handles SIDs and STARs nicely, but bounces you sometime between controllers. RC on the other hand doesn't assign you SIDs or STARs but does a better job in avoiding controller ping pong.

 

Based on this experience, I would recomend VoxATC with FS2Crew/IYP.

[GodAtum 69]

Thanks for your suggestions. I do like the idea of Michelle as my co-pilot However IYP's website looks so bad and very hard to navigate which is putting me off. I'd like to know how the latest version of MCE compares with IYP?

 

Listening to vids, VoxATc doesnt sound too bad. Can you stop Vox traffic as I already use Traffic x?

[Jarkko 59]

Can you stop Vox traffic as I already use Traffic x?

 

You do it the other way around. I set AI-traffic sliders to zero in FSX. I then set AI-traffic to 50 in VoxATC.

 

Even with FSX sliders at zero, VoxATC injects TrafficX planes into FSX. They don't fly their real world schedules and they are injected only at your origin and destination. Even so you can hear ATC "talking" to other planes during cruise, even if they don't exist in your airspace.

 

Before I tried VoxATC, I thought that VoxATC injecting traffic, would be a bad thing. It turned out to be the other way around. With Radar Contact, I had to keep my eye out for AI traffic as they didn't follow any procedures. Now it nice to see that the plane that took of in front of you, is following the same SID

 

Just remember that each ATC program has it downfalls. I feel that both Radar Contact and VoxATC are eager to fly you straight into a mountain when there is high terrain around.

 

One good way to test this, is to do a test flight to LOWI. I haven't used an ATC program yet, that would have managed to vector me safely in for a landing. I always have to request full approach.

 

I hope others can give you oppinions on the other ATC programs.