Hi there.I am looking at this Radar Contact V3 for FS9. Would anyone here be kind enough to highly some of the value added using this addon?Please also highlight any minus attributes like install problem or if any manual tweaking necessary to make it work..anything like that?http://www.jdtllc.com/

Hi,I highly recommend RCV3. Much more realistic than default ATC. Its easy to use and you can save your RC flight plan any time during your flight if you want. I dont recall having to do any tweaking, you just change your settings as desired.Also there is good support on the forum,CheersDan :-)

And that support forum is here on AVSIM. Once you get the base version installed and registered, do the update as described at the top of their forum. It is free and introduced very desirable features. Be sure to get the additional voice files as described.I have been using it starting with FS8 and now use it as part of FS9.It offers a great amount of realism and flexibility, not offered in FS9's default ATC.It also offers (since it uses its own and updatable text database for airports, navaids, and runways)a solution for problems FS9 ATC has with the "star" method in AFCAD files used as work arounds in many downloaded AFCAD .bgl files to make runway privileges available at airports with non-parallel runways. It will not recognize the mini-virtual runways used in this method.You should note that in this 3.1 version and the upcoming version 4.0 (way down the road - I would not wait) it is for controlled flight only although you still can use a visual approach or cancel IFR.Browse their support forum. You'll see their support and upgrade (free within the major version) is top notch.I highly recommend it. It was the second add-on I ever purchased followed by FS Panel Studio.If you do decide to get it, I also suggest consider acquiring the freeware (for now) AISmooth from another source. It helps with traffic seperation in high density terminal areas especislly if you are using add-on AI flightplans/aircraft such as Ultimate Traffic.You will find that you may need approach plates for non-precision approaches to get verticle profiles for landing in IMC. You can search this forum here for messages on freeware and payware sources.You should also note technniques for using RC with aircraft using an FMS/FMC following approaches in their database that do not follow the flight plan submitted to RC if you choose RC vectors to final as opposed to following (as it allows) published procedures.It is well worth to me, a former GA pilot, the bit of a learning curve but then that is what controlled flight is all about.I also suggest you investigate a good flight planner either freeware or payware that suits you. Again search that subject on this forum.I should add that RC is suitable for both GA and airliner flying. You declare the aircraft type on its options page. Be sure to get the 3.1 build upgrade as it recognizes the FS9 AI (turn it on in options) and while AI control will not be until version 4 down the road 3.1 will read AI call the AI targets to you and also not taxi you onto the runway unless aircraft on final are far enough away. It will also give you a go-around if you are on final and aircraft taxi onto or have not cleared the runway.On a final note, it includes registration for the required FSUIPC features it needs. You do not need to pay additionally for that. Be sure to do the FSUIPC upgrade as detailed on the support forum.

I have it and recommend it, but here are some things to consider:1) Version 4.0 is coming up, somewhere around the corner.2) RC is not for VFR flying. There is no flight following or SVFR. You can't contact approach or a tower for VFR transition or to land. You must have an IFR flight plan filed.3) Names of facilities are not used. ATIS is generic and you contact "Tower" not "Atlanta Tower" and "approach" not "Boston Approach".4) Frequencies and handoffs are not real. You are handed off to "center" on a made up frequency with no changes or sector handoffs, no matter where you are flying. 5) No ground directions and no interaction with ground AI. You get a taxi instruction to a runway but no direction on which taxiways to use.5) In version 3.1, limited interaction with in flight AI and no actual AI chatter.The default FS2004 ATC is more realistic to me in many ways with respect to frequencies, AI, ground, and facility names. RC does correct serious issues with vectoring and approaches and offers some approach and emergency options not available in FS2004 default ATC. I recommend it, but it still has a lot of holes. The complete ignoring of VFR flight to me is one of the worst.