better ATC?

[Just John]

is there a plugin that improves the useless and annoying default ATC? ive check this one called (i think) Pilot4ATC? anyways i check it out and it didn't worked, is there any other plugin?

[Maki Nishikino]

Pilot2ATC, 124th ATC, VATSIM, IVAO, PilotEdge, POSCON. Personally I've been using VATSIM for 10 years and love it.

[Just John]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Pilot2ATC, 124th ATC, VATSIM, IVAO, PilotEdge, POSCON. Personally I've been using VATSIM for 10 years and love it.

ill give it a look, thanks for replying

[ForgedDragon_]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Pilot2ATC, 124th ATC, VATSIM, IVAO, PilotEdge, POSCON. Personally I've been using VATSIM for 10 years and love it.

I have heard you have to type in a lot of personal information to join VATSIM, is that true?

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Micheal Your Man:

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Pilot2ATC, 124th ATC, VATSIM, IVAO, PilotEdge, POSCON. Personally I've been using VATSIM for 10 years and love it.

I have heard you have to type in a lot of personal information to join VATSIM, is that true?

When you register you must sign up with your full name, when you connect you don't have to. What is acceptable when you connect is listed in the VATSIM CoC.

[ForgedDragon_]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Originally posted by Micheal Your Man:

I have heard you have to type in a lot of personal information to join VATSIM, is that true?

When you register you must sign up with your full name, when you connect you don't have to. What is acceptable when you connect is listed in the VATSIM CoC.

I just heard someone said you needed like a picture ID or something to register, not sure if that is true.

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Micheal Your Man:

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

When you register you must sign up with your full name, when you connect you don't have to. What is acceptable when you connect is listed in the VATSIM CoC.

I just heard someone said you needed like a picture ID or something to register, not sure if that is true.

No, not normally. They can if they desire ask for proof of your real identity but I highly doubt this is really used that much. I can really only seeing it being the case if you have a name that raises questions.

[Mat]

Pilot2ATC is fantastic, it takes a while to get your head around it but there is no better ATC unless you are going on vatsim.

[John W]

I use Pilot2ATC for a couple of reasons. I thought about using an online ATC but I'm not very consistent when it comes to flying. There are times when I start a flight and then right in the middle I get bored and quit. Perhaps I wouldn't do that if I as using an online service but I like the ability to just quit when I want and don't want to just drop off of someone's radar (literally and figuratively). So I looked for an alternative. I tried 124th ATC but had issues with it vectoring me hundreds of miles off course. Not all of the time but enough that I stopped using it. I discovered Pilot2ATC and was pleased to find that it worked with all of my flight simulators (FSX, P3D, XP11 and FS2020). You do need FSUPIC for FSX, P3D and FS2020 and XPUIPC for XP11. XPUIPC is free where you have to purchase FSUPIC.)

So here is what I like about Pilot2ATC. You don't have to file a flight plan if you don't want to. You can take off without using it and fly somewhere and then decide that you want to use Pilot2ATC. I get near an airport, look up the approach frequency, contact approach and request vectors for an instrument approach and go from there.

I can file a flight plan in the air. I can request taxi and let Pilot2ATC give me directions or request taxi to a specific runway. You can request to stay in the pattern on takeoff to practice landings. You can request the option for landing so you can do touch and go's. There are so many things you can do with it and even use it to create flight plans. It has a moving map. I can go on and on.

Check it out at Pilot2ATC.com and watch some of the videos to get an idea of what it can do. For me it was well worth the money.

Oh, I will point out one issue I had with Pilot2ATC. I tried using it with a desktop microphone (a cheap one). What I discovered was the sound from my surround sound speakers was interfering with the microphone's ability to clearly hear what I was saying and Pilot2ATC could not understand me. So I purchased a gaming headset that has a microphone and the problem was solved. You may not need a gaming headset but I would recommend one or at least a microphone that clips on your head (you know what I mean).

[Lorti Lort]

Yep, the best is Pilot2ATC, but if i wouldn`t use it I also have found a little program that named X-ATC-Chatter https://store.x-plane.org/X-ATC-Chatter_p_890.html this little program brings many live in you sim it also works with Pilot2ATC together that it is not quiet anymore. I Love this little Plugin and it is cheap,

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by John W:

I use Pilot2ATC for a couple of reasons. I thought about using an online ATC but I'm not very consistent when it comes to flying. There are times when I start a flight and then right in the middle I get bored and quit. Perhaps I wouldn't do that if I as using an online service but I like the ability to just quit when I want and don't want to just drop off of someone's radar (literally and figuratively).

You can disconnect on VATSIM at any point during your flight. You can also reconnect as you wish (just be sure that won't cause an issue). It is courteous though to let the controller know that you're going to disconnect. Quite frankly if this is what is holding you back then you have nothing to worry about. I would go ahead and sign up, the experience you will receive will be way above what you currently get.