I agree.

Along with not getting routed into mountains during IFR flights, I’d love to be able to interact with ATC (clearance, ground, tower, unicorn) for practice and training purposes for VFR flights.

I have a pilots license IRL but haven’t exercised it in about 20 years. Also did most of my training at uncontrolled airfields. Closest airport to me now is a smallish but very busy field which has a tower. I’d love to be able to practice interacting with ATC for realistic training scenarios so that if I do go get current, I can concentrate on polishing up the flying skills more. X-plane helps with that part too (quite a bit!) but it’s also an area where you don’t get the feeling of the actual forces tugging you around.

Wow, one of the best responses I have heard in months. I am a real world private pilot and had all my flight lessons and Chicago Midway (ATC 24/7) I have only used x-plane for two years. I tried the default ATC when I first bought x-plane 10 got frustrated and gave up and bought x-plane 11, still not good. Now I’m finally on 124th ATC and with some limitations it works quite well. Now I’m well on my way to Vatsim and Pilotedge.
X-plane is a wonderful product and your VR and scenery improvements are spectacular making it the greatest sim platform ever. . As always keep up the great work.
Ed

Regarding my last post about electronic hum with pilots communicating, I saw an old post from 2010 , and it was mentioned. It said that larger planes have a 400htz electrical system, and is responsible. It also mentioned that this tone can be replicated with audacity software. the post is called mystery tone on aircraft.

Just an idea, no offense: why don’t you simply drop the ATC engine ?

You are the developers of the “foundations”, stick on those foundations. You design a lot of foundation blocks, you master them and, obviously, are the only ones able to work on.

I mean, let look what becomes the default 737: a really nice aircraft by default. Some people in the community (Zibo and others) leverage it and it becomes excellent. Really excellent.

Maybe you should consider to drop the ATC code on github (or somewhere) to let the community leverages this code. This community will spent a lot of passionate hours of work you can’t. You still are responsible of the interactions between the XPlane “core engine” and the “satellites”.

And besides, it will gives you the opportunity to continue your work on other critical foundation blocks: weather engine ? water operations ? plugin sandboxing ? there are many domains to improve.

You can’t do all by yourselves, so polish the core: v11 is a huge step forward compared to v10. Absolutely nice work, continue that way !

All the best LR team,

Christophe.

Bump

This would be great!

A precept (from the Latin: præcipere, to teach) is a commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action.

The precept of aviation is: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. Fly the plane. Direct it where it should go. Talk to ATC. If we are not physically and actively communicating with ATC, what are we learning? I’m not referring to pressing the Enter key so the program can recite what ATC wants the pilot to do. Speak and repeat back the ATC controller’s instructions. XPlane needs ATC voice command.

I know there are several controller web sites for this but they are limited in area of coverage.

+1 VFR. Please.