Hello friends,

I'm new to P2ATC (in trial now), new to Avsim and am a total novice pilot flying exclusively C172, attempting touch and goes and short hops from my local airport to nearby small airports in X-Plane 12. 

Perhaps I don't understand how ATC works in P2ATC or in real life, but in X-Plane 12, ATC handles me all the way through my flight, whereas P2ATC seems to stop giving vector instructions after I take off even remaining in the pattern. I know I'm misunderstanding something, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

Thank you for any help for a fledgling pilot. 

Hi there.

The best way to get started is to learn real-world VFR procedures.  For example, there are many rules about how to approach and fly the VFR traffic pattern.  Here's a video that covers those rules pretty well, but there are hundreds of others.

Bing Videos

You can also find videos on VFR cross country flights, etc.  VFR flying depends on the pilot knowing how to navigate and get from Point A to Point B without any ATC involvement.  There is something called "VFR Flight Following" where ATC gives traffic alerts, but ATC almost never gives vectors to VFR traffic.  

After you understand the basic procedures, you can practice those and radio calls in Pilot2ATC.  For the VFR Traffic pattern, you can select phrases to use from the VFR Pattern Location copilot phrases.  There will be phrases for Downwind, Turning Final, on Final, etc.  After you're comfortable using those phrases, you can experiment with variations of those to see what works and get to flying without referring to the copilot options.

Dave

 

 

Ah yes! Great! Thank you, Dave.