This is easily the best ATC sim around.

[Naromi]

So, I've been playing ATC sims since the 90s, starting with Xavious ATCC, while also playing sims such at ATC Pro (The absolute best TRACON and STARS simulation you could find, unfortunately health issue of the developer caused the sim to stop being updated, and it's in an extremely buggy state, I would not recommend it which is horrible because it's so close to being the best ATC sim since ATCC v1) Atc Simulatore 2, Wilco Tower!, etc.

The graphics are not great but man, the mechanics, the functions, the UI, it all just works so well and delivers an extremely immersive and realistic experience especially when compared to some of the other Tower sims on the market, which also have out-dated graphics but suffer from super poor game-play and mechanic design.

On the surface you may see the time gauge and efficiency meter and feel like it takes an arcade approach and while there's some arcade elements it's just such a good ATC simulator.

Obviously you would not be working multiple positions at once, but at the end of the day this simulation portrays really well exactly what ATC is.

If you're on the fence I'd say go for it, it's going to be better than nearly all the other simulators you can currently find, and the sim is built on a foundation all the way back from 98 and it really shows, the game-play is what shines the most, even little touches like clearing an aircraft for take-off while they are still taxing will cause them to taxi on the runway and commence the take-off without coming to a dead--stop, which is exactly what would happen at the pilots discretion most times in real life, and allows for "No-delay" departures.

I know I'm shilling at this point but I wanted to make a post and just say thanks to the devs and spread the word that this is freaking awesome as an ATC sim and you should most definitely not let a few arcade features or the games setting scare you off.

Honestly, it's close enough to the 7110 (FAA ATC Rules) that if you're familiar with those or even have a basic understanding of air traffic control, you'll be able to jump in and just start going, you won't even have to use the tutorial.

Anyway, if you haven't give it a shot.

PS. For those who are playing, someone said you could buy airports from the Japanese version for use in the English version here, is that true? I tried searching Google for the instructions on how to do that and I come up with nothing. If anyone knows, or has the instructions would you please be kind enough to link or share them with me?

[Lanzfeld]

ARTCC was so incredible. loved it

[Naromi]

Originally posted by Lanzfeld:

ARTCC was so incredible. loved it

It really was, considering the time period it came out in too and it's even more amazing. There's never been a more realistic ATC simulation since then with ATC Pro being a close second if it wasn't abandoned and pretty broken. ATC Pro is basically on the same level as ATCC in terms of realism, fidelity, voices, etc. They even use the actual real-life video maps for their STARS simulation that you can use to customize your scope the same way the actual controllers do. As much as I give it praise I'd stay away from it as again, it's incredibly broken and hard to run a session without a game-breaking bug.

The next best on the list would be this and London Control.

Fun fact in ATCC you could plug-in to a neighboring sector and hear the controller controlling his aircraft, in full life like voice, and this was like 1994-98 lol

Xavious still has their their website up if you want some Nostalgia. The download section has a radar capture of an emergency back at ORD in the day, it's an .exe file but it's safe. That's the only raw radar footage of an emergency that is available to the public, aside from YouTube channels like Vasiaviation which use their own sim radar display to make videos, there's also some other cool things like an old D-Side test if you haven't seen it.

You can still get the old 1.0 version for free but it does not have the sound (the voices in that simulation like the rest of the simulation were incredible, still beats anything ever put out).

http://www.xavius.com/atcc.html << Website showing a few screens of V2 which never happened. I believe they said in the forums ten years ago or so that they got some professional contracts with some education facilities so they would not be making a consumer version, I could be wrong on some of that information, it was forever ago.

Download Section: http://www.xavius.com/downloads.html

The JP version of this game apparently has airport vehicles, military aircraft, runway operations like plowing etc. I wish we would have gotten the full port or at least some more content.

Anyway, I'm rambling....

[Lanzfeld]

JP version?

[Naromi]

Originally posted by Lanzfeld:

JP version?

The Japanese version.

[GenXGamer]

this is not a sim...its a game.

[Naromi]

Originally posted by K-Pants:

this is not a sim...its a game.

It simulates a real life activity/profession, through game-play, I'd call it both, a game in the simulation genre, but I'm sure you already thought of that, huh?

[Geandily]

"PS. For those who are playing, someone said you could buy airports from the Japanese version for use in the English version here, is that true? I tried searching Google for the instructions on how to do that and I come up with nothing. If anyone knows, or has the instructions would you please be kind enough to link or share them with me?"

Anybody figured this out? Sounds like it could be a simple fix to most issues people are having on here

[Naromi]

Originally posted by Geandily:

"PS. For those who are playing, someone said you could buy airports from the Japanese version for use in the English version here, is that true? I tried searching Google for the instructions on how to do that and I come up with nothing. If anyone knows, or has the instructions would you please be kind enough to link or share them with me?"

Anybody figured this out? Sounds like it could be a simple fix to most issues people are having on here

Originally posted by Geandily:

"PS. For those who are playing, someone said you could buy airports from the Japanese version for use in the English version here, is that true? I tried searching Google for the instructions on how to do that and I come up with nothing. If anyone knows, or has the instructions would you please be kind enough to link or share them with me?"

Anybody figured this out? Sounds like it could be a simple fix to most issues people are having on here

I'm the one who posted that comment and I've spent hours searching with no success. it may have been the case with IAMATC3 but from everything I've read and looked at there's no way to do this.

You CAN purchase the JP version of the game which includes much more features than this one (Fighter Pilot traffic, airport vehicle and runway vehicle operations, etc) but the game does not support English, so you'd have to play it in JP.

I can only guess the person who made the initial comment was mistaken or wrongly believed that it worked like IAMATC3.

[Geandily]

Looks like we may just be drip fed the expansions as they translate them; hopefully we'll get them all - I cant imagine it being *that* difficult for them to do?

[Lanzfeld]

Yeah....I just hate how they don't include all the bells and whistles in the English version as they do the Japanese version. Such a dumb choice.

[Geandily]

What's missing? We seem to have a version similar to Japanese Haneda pack

[Naromi]

Originally posted by Geandily:

What's missing? We seem to have a version similar to Japanese Haneda pack

Fighter operations (Thought this might be fixed with the DLC) Runway operations, emergencies such as snow plowing, emergencies, general aviation traffic, better custom scenarios multiple airports, real airlines, etc etc These are all things the JP version has.