Hey all, feeling just a bit disappointed today, as its RAF Cosford airshow and I'm not there (sad times). However, there's a silver lining to that cloud, so watch out over the coming weeks and months, you'll see some interesting news about VoxATC coming shortly. 😁

So this post isn't the Summer News, it's a post to say that the Summer News is coming in weeks or months? 😀

I'm only joking, so please don't take that seriously 😉 I used VoxATC for many years, back in the day and will be interested in seeing the shape of it's modern evolution.

5 minutes ago, JYW said:

So this post isn't the Summer News, it's a post to say that the Summer News is coming in weeks or months? 😀

I'm only joking, so please don't take that seriously 😉 I used VoxATC for many years, back in the day and will be interested in seeing the shape of it's modern evolution.

news about news yes LOL 🤣

But seriously, there will be some interesting info dribbling out for people to chew over, once some bit and bobs have been tweaked.

Edited Sunday at 12:52 PM2 days by kevinfirth

I was very hopeful about the prospect of VoxATC a few years ago, I was even a Beta tester for a short time. Now after the latest offerings of ATC software, I think the Dev of VoxATC has missed the boat. I hope I'm wrong but thats just my view.

11 minutes ago, GAJ52 said:

I was very hopeful about the prospect of VoxATC a few years ago, I was even a Beta tester for a short time. Now after the latest offerings of ATC software, I think the Dev of VoxATC has missed the boat. I hope I'm wrong but thats just my view.

Everyone's entitled to an opinion, no quibbles about that. There are other ATC apps out there sure, and if you find they work better for you, use them! 🙂 We won't be bashing any of them, the more opportunities people have with ATC apps that do things differently or take a different approach (no pun intended) that's great. Perhaps someday we'll end up with a grand unified flight sim ATC solution...but not in my lifetime probably 🤣

This sounds like we have a deal to make a deal. 😁

So, starting tomorrow I'm going to begin dropping some info, just to provide some information about VoxATC.

As well as that, if there's any specific questions anyone want to throw at me, fire away and I'll do my best to provide some answers.

I saw this list of questions in another thread, so thought this would be a great starter for 10...

Is it voice based or button? VoxATC will support both - in fact you can use either input method at any time during a flight.
Will you support both IFR and VFR from launch or only one of those? VoxATC will control both IFR AND VFR traffic regardless of what type of flight you the user is making - (although some advanced aspects of VFR flight are still being actively improved.)
Will you support the entire world or just US? VoxATC covers the entire world and has the capability to use different regionalised standards.
Is it built around simbrief or works independently? VoxATC can work with independent flightplans (.pln) or import simbrief flightplans.
Are you relying on AFCAD data for taxiways or your own solution? VoxATC reads (indexes) all scenery active in your simulator and uses them.
Is some sort of multiplayer planned? Or is it player only? Player only at first, although multiplayer has been discussed in the context of two remote pilots being able to share the same ATC/AI while in shared cockpit. If it comes it will be added later.

What sort of features could we expect from the very first release?

• IFR and VFR support, including:

  • intelligent taxiing so you don't end up face to face with AI aircraft

  • intelligent sequencing on approach

  • holding patterns and stacks at busy airports

  • flight/radar service for VFR

  • easily customisable .xml profiles for airports to specify accurate communications, holding points and VRP's

• integration with the freeware AIG package - providing a huge amount of realistic traffic based on AIG flightplans

• in-sim panel interface - html based so is visually customisable to your liking through CSS

  • interface can also be displayed on a networked device like a tablet, enabling you to use a touch interface

9 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

I saw this list of questions in another thread, so thought this would be a great starter for 10...

Sounds cool. Questions for tomorrow:

Voices? Oceanic? Emergencies? Contextual voice recognition/comprehension?

5 hours ago, kevinfirth said:

So, starting tomorrow I'm going to begin dropping some info, just to provide some information about VoxATC.

As well as that, if there's any specific questions anyone want to throw at me, fire away and I'll do my best to provide some answers.

Will product support be like in the past by an e-mail to the developer and wait some time (days) for an answer?

Or will support be in an open forum where everyone can see the problems and fixes?

Edited Monday at 04:51 PM1 day by vonmar

1 hour ago, vonmar said:

Will product support be like in the past by an e-mail to the developer and wait some time (days) for an answer?

Or will support be in an open forum where everyone can see the problems and fixes?

I expect it to be mainly on the discord server where it's viewable by everyone, and able to benefit from user to user support too.

1 hour ago, vonmar said:

Will product support be like in the past by an e-mail to the developer and wait some time (days) for an answer?

Or will support be in an open forum where everyone can see the problems and fixes?

21 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

I expect it to be mainly on the discord server where it's viewable by everyone, and able to benefit from user to user support too.

Ok, no answer yet.

I would expect the VOXatc developer to already know the answer.

Just to verify if you work for VOXatc ?

I'm not paid by anyone, I don't have any commercial interest. I am helping the developer purely because I like the product 👍

Perhaps I should have been more explicit - all support will be via the discord server.

3 hours ago, kevinfirth said:

I saw this list of questions in another thread, so thought this would be a great starter for 10...

8 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

I'm not paid by anyone, I don't have any commercial interest. I am helping the developer purely because I like the product

To avoid any confusions the developer should answer the questions on his product and further intentions.

1 minute ago, vonmar said:

To avoid any confusions the developer should answer the questions on his product and further intentions.

Well you have me. You can take advantage of that, or not, your choice 🙂