For beginners a recommendation is to (a) switch to a lower-activity airport, and (b) go through the tutorial, which is actually very well integrated with the gameplay.
Also, tangentially, a few months back, I was browsing my local bookstore when I came across a poster on "Navitrainer" - this was a flight simulator from the forties - https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/navitrainer.html - fascinating stuff!
To clarify here, the VATSIM controllers are real humans. The traffic is simulated, but also “real”, in that it’s human sim pilots flying “on network.” And the network is sim-agnostic. I’m still working on being good enough with my plane in MSFS to be able to fly online.
Yes, the idea of VATSIM is "There are people who want to play pilot simulators and there are people who want to play ATC simulators. What if there was a network protocol to link those groups together?"
There's a Japanese ATC sim series called "I Am an Air Traffic Controller" that I like. It's got a couple installments on the Switch and 3DS which is where I played them, but they go back as far as the PS1. Some but not all of them were localized (there is an English one on Switch)
I think originally it was a PC game series, I've watched some videos of the recent PC installments and they look TOUGH. Much tougher than the console ones
Good grief, I'd not seen this before and now I've lost an entire evening to it. Who'd have thought a game nearly 40 years old could still be so engrossing?! Thanks
I had a fun 30 minutes with this but I cannot get the route or reroute commands to work at all. I have the map set to show the nav points but no matter how I tell them to route between nav points I always get "that route is invalid"
Yeah, I forgot all about these kinds of games. I used to play something similar on Android, where you used your finger, so it was more game-ish, but it was a great mobile game. Anything like this for iOS?
This game has been around for many years. I remember playing it for hours when it first came out and really enjoying eventually getting into a flow state.
A couple of days ago there was a post for a site that would take you to hacker news on a totally random date; I had a look and ended up about 9 years ago. One of the posts I saw from then was this game! Many years indeed.
