Re:Air Traffic Control Simulator
by asherdavidson on Sunday December 14, 2014 @09:54AM
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It's funny you mention BVA. I joined them many years ago (before FSX closed gamespy) and I flew with them quite a bit. I think I was just a little intimidated by how professional they were. I did a few of their lessons, and then I went back to free flight in the offline sim where I could take off the from the taxi ways :).
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I flew virtually with real life general aviation pilots, some of them assuming the role of the ATC in the sim; or else players would proceed like with uncontrolled airstrips in real life: announcing take-offs, landings, etc. on the "frequency" (a channel on a teamspeak server, one for each airport).
For someone like me who is has never flown a plane, it added kind of an RPG aspect to the simulation.
I used to work on quite a large Flight Sim website a few years back and a lot of our users would do this.
It gets interesting when you have 20+ people in an area because people do not fly as perfectly as shown in any ATC simulator.