4 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

Not a terrain model change, but 3PDs will mostly likely need to redo all their flat airports :p

 

Yeah there's a thought.  2 -3  years before everything catches up then. :)

But it's the kind of feature - sloped airfield surfaces - that really should become standard for flight simulators...

2 minutes ago, jcomm said:

But it's the kind of feature - sloped airfield surfaces - that really should become standard for flight simulators...

It is.

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I wish more people would move to ATC environments like VATSIM.  It makes such a monumental difference to the overall experience which even the highest degree of canned ATC could never provide.  Real time flying with real people cannot be beaten.  We just need more people to do it.  Then all of this AI traffic and botched ATC frustration will disappear.

 

The problem for me is that I don't fly my planes "by the book". Can you imagine what a VATSIM ATC controller would think when he notices a PMDG 737NGX flying cross country "low and slow" at 3000 feet with flaps and undercarriage down? I would be kicked from the server so hard that it would take me weeks to recover!!

As for the ATC in P3D.....I want to see a solution to the AI planes doing dumb things when the simulator is first fired up, and also a fix for the "stop/start/stop/start/continue taxi/hold position/continue taxi..." rubbish that happens when an AI plane is following me out to the runway

Both the benefit of and the problem with services like VATSIM  is that "they rely on the kindness of strangers", which is just like the product support advice that one receives at sites like AVSim. The easiest way to use VATSIM is to participate  in their many sponsored  events. That  way there's no chance of experiencing a flight without a controller.

20 hours ago, jabloomf1230 said:

Ha ha, look at this:

http://www.prepar3d.com/news/2017/04/113989/

Even LM embraces the use of fsaerodata for P3D.

Interesting, I have never heard of this and will have to check it out.....

I fly IVAO online in Europe and pick my flights depending on the controlled  hubs. Ok, it sort of limits your start/destination but I am willing to give that up for the feeling of 'real' flying. Nothing beats the adrenaline when at the last minute control puts you on a hold due to heavy traffic or gives you vectors to deviate from your flightplan.

On ‎5‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 4:38 PM, jabloomf1230 said:

Both the benefit of and the problem with services like VATSIM  is that "they rely on the kindness of strangers", which is just like the product support advice that one receives at sites like AVSim. The easiest way to use VATSIM is to participate  in their many sponsored  events. That  way there's no chance of experiencing a flight without a controller.

I am a heavily involved user of VATSIM (ATC/pilot/Supervisor) and I feel the pain of the members commenting on the limitation of VATSIM on lack of ATC coverage.

I am finally getting down to setting up a website for ATC bookings to try and get VATSIM controllers to allow pilots to see when they are going to be online. It will be up within a month. I am hoping controllers will use it to book time slots and pilots can plan flights accordingly. A mini-events system almost...I am not sure if it will work but I am going to persist and encourage controllers to use it. I am sure when they see pilots at an announced ARTCC they will also follow suit.

This is available in Europe already but this one is US centric initially.

Shez