Tower 3D Guide (work in progress)

This is a guide to Tower 3D. It's a work in Progress and will update as I continue to figure things out.

Starting the Game

When you open the game you will get to an airport selection screen.



Here you can select which airport you want to use.
Only St. Thomas has tutorial.

On the top you will see New Game, Settings, Stats, and quit.


To the right you see the airport. The white dot represents where arrival aircraft will attempt to land.


The Bottom is the start button.

Basic operations

Tower View: Below screenshot is the basic layout of your control screen.


Top left is your command panel. This is where you issue orders to the aircraft.


Top right screen is your ADIRS. This is your ground level airport map. When aircraft at the terminal are ready for departure they will appear on this screen and request permission to taxi, you can click on the aircraft and issue then the order using the command panel. Once an arriving aircraft has landed they will also appear on this screen. You can zoom in and out on this screen.


Bottom Right is the STRIP panel which gives you all the aircraft information. You can also click on these and issue commands.
The Runway assignment will appear on the right side.


Bottom Left is the DBRITE: which is the Airport Radar and shows incoming aircraft. you can zoom in and out of this screen.

Airports

Currently you only have three airports to choose from.

St. Thomas Airport is the Beginners airport and ony one with tutorial. The tutorial is so so.




LAX: Advanced Airport. I'm working on this guy for best pratices and airport management.




Philly: Haven't attempted this one yet.

St. Thomas Airport

This is the easyiest airport and the SLOWEST. When i get time I'll run through the commands.



This airport is pretty easy to establish a routine with. When starting, check which runway is selected for arrival flights. this is the runway you will select for departures, otherwise you'll have airraft running into each other and lose tons of points.

I believe default runway is number 28. when you get on an aircraft will immediately request permission to taxi. you can use either the ADIRS screen or the STRIP to select the aircraft. then using the command panel on the top left issue the order to taxi to runway 28 and click send. you will issue the order and they will comply. There is a fast forward button above the command bar to quickly fast forward... do not leave in fast forward mode.....

If you get a queue for an arrival flight do not line the departing flight on the runway if the arrival flight is within the center ring. If the arrival flight is within the center ring you risk chance of a collision. If the arrival flight is outside the center ring you can line up the departing aircraft and issue the order to take off.

Once the flight has taken off do not forget to issue the contact departure command or you will also lose points.

For arriving aircraft do not forget to issue the clear for landing order. if you don't they will automatically give themselves the go around command, if you don't issue the final approach to runway XX (in this case 28). you will lose points for failure to handle an aircraft. in this game you will LOSE A BUNCH OF points when you start. don't be discouraged.