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[michaelray 236]

Oh yes that is looking really good.

[Alvega 2,124]

33 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

And 100 voices versus a couple, is a major plus. 

And terrain awareness, regional accents, radio degradation.

Quotes from the dev on their Discord:

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We handle vectoring from the final fix of the star to the IAF of the approach, accounting for terrain that may be present. We also ensure that angles will never exceed 90 degrees so you're turned in increments that don't make for wild maneuvers. In the case where you have no star, or the approach is visual, we vector you to the FAF accounting for terrain and give visual clearance based on the visibility profile of the weather.

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we simulate radio degradation based on distance and altitude as well as terrain. The lower and farther away the more the radio transmission is degraded if you hear a plane far away or behind mountains.

 

[Jetman67 517]

Amazing can't wait for this.

[WestAir 2,522]

From the discord:

[User Question] "My question is how are you checking active runways, is it based on wind? I'm asking since for example in Madrid there are preferential runways that are being switched only when wind components are exceeding set values, but tailwind takeoffs/landings are common. 

For example today in-sim ATC today assigned me runway 14R which would be correct wind-wise, but according to flightradar active takeoff runway at that moment was 36L."

[Dev Answer] "We have a couple different ways, but check around this channel for an explanation on how custom user data will work. Trusted users can upload airport specific SOPs to our server that will be downloaded by all other users of the product. You can specify different situations for Madrid, for example, that if the wind is greater than X, it uses Y runway, among many other things like specifiying which airlines go to which gates.

The nice thing is unlike GSX or P2ATC profiles, this will automatically download for all users, so as more people enter data, the program gets better for everyone.

And of course, we'll moderate that data so it's not a bunch of broken troll data."

[Swe_Richard 1,172]

This looks like an absolute must-have. Impressive video to say the least. Might even try to talk to it hoping it can decipher my accent. 🤪

[Noel 4,503]

It's calling out other traffic.  Is it also intercepting and controlling the flight paths of each of these as well, IOW will it do better at choreographing live RT and user (that's us) traffic as well so as to minimize go-arounds, etc?  That's a tall order

Edited July 5, 2023 by Noel

[dmarques69 316]

Looks very good, but as im sceptical by nature i need to see it perform, and needs to perform very well to take me out of pilot2atc.

Edited July 5, 2023 by dmarques69

[jarmstro 2,404]

It looks very good. I just hope it understands English with no accent.

[RALF9636 1,966]

1 hour ago, Noel said:

It's calling out other traffic.  Is it also intercepting and controlling the flight paths of each of these as well, IOW will it do better at choreographing live RT and user (that's us) traffic as well so as to minimize go-arounds, etc?  That's a tall order

This is indeed the crucial question. 

Will it control AI traffic? Will it appropriately separate and sequence AI traffic? Will it make AI traffic use the correct runways, taxiways and gates? Will it handle the user and AI traffic in the same way just as parts of the traffic flow?

Edited July 5, 2023 by RALF9636

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

 

[cchiozza 106]

Man, very well done for sure. I know lots of questions. I'll take it now with or without traffic control. Looks to control them quite nicely as is.  

[jcomm 5,939]

This is what I've been asking to become true since decades !!!

WOWAAAAA !!!!

[Noooch 1,084]

My single concern is it will come out late this year, just months before msfs2024 which will have I THINK a brand new ATC based on AI and machine learning.  Jorg hinted in that direction many times.

[Langeveldt 281]

Amazing. We've needed this for about 20 years.

I'm wondering two things.  Will the performance hold up? And I know it's a cop out, but would we get a taxiway line to follow?  I can't normally be bothered to find airport charts for everywhere I go.  Would rather just jump in and fly sometimes.  

[michaelth 76]

Does anyone know if its control window will be VR compatible?

Michael