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The thing that immediately came to mind when I first saw the DO-31 was the Razorcrest from the Mandalorian...

Yup. That's what they're supposed to say! If they just HAD to use a non-standard callout, at least they could have said "continue as FILED". How hard would that have been? Most of the other ATC programs do this to some extent as well. Maybe it's picky of me, but to me it shows that the devs of these programs weren't totally paying attention. It wouldn't have taken much effort to get it right and they didn't. Even something as simple as "climb and maintain" instead of "climb to" for instance. (I'm just talking US controllers BTW. I really don't fly anywhere else so I have no idea how silly the ICAO stuff might be...) If BATC has put in this extra effort, I will love them forever! (...or at least for another 10-15 years. I'm 72...) OK, rant over. Thanks for listening. Russ

True enough, Just saying that, for me and quite a few others, a subscription is a deal breaker for going any further than free...

As Peavy said in the Rocketeer: "Well, that's the end of that..."

Here ya go...

Just "as soon as they are ready" or something like that...

Yeah. Early access won. Yay!!

As someone who has used Radar Contact for however many years its been around (and still do in XP), I just want an ATC addon that uses CORRECT FAA/ICAO PHRASEOLOGY!!!!! I'm quite tired of hearing "continue as planned" and crud like that. I really don't care if I have to taxi through 10 planes to get to the runway when I'm cleared for takeoff. Just control my flight with the right words and I'll be happy! BATC says they have been working with real air traffic controllers around the world, so I have high hopes, but we'll see... Russ

You have to start RC from the addons menu or whatever it's called when you are in the sim. I've been using it for a couple of years in XP11 and now 12. Works great. I exclusively use FSX .pln flightplans generated by Little NavMap. Russ

In my best Arnold voice: "Do it!! Do it now!!! What are you waiting for???" For me personally, traffic is a big "eh". I know other people are big on it, but please let us get a decent ATC now and release the traffic doodad when it's ready. Either way the traffic folks will have to wait, so... Russ

Yeah, me too...

As a former USAF T-33 Crew Chief I would be EXTREMELY happy to see a T-Bird in the sim!!!! (If anyone is familiar with the T-33 scale model from Great Wall models, the markings were for the aircraft I was Crew Chief of, 58-0671!!) Russ

Thank you!!

When I just went to fire up the sim I got a just under 1G mandatory download. Anyone know what that was about? Russ

Couldn't tell you. I was replying to someone who said they miss Radar Contact ATC... Russ