Hello,
The news for this month is that I have been working on a solo training mode for ATC-pie. The reason is that I wanted to propose a way for ATCs to:
- get used to the software interface, train in the strip+rack environment and on the strip linking task before comfortably connecting to multi-player;
- as there is still very often only few pilots connected, try out their skills in heavier traffic, configuring it to match the sort of thing they want to practice.
Incidentally, this may promote the software (probably only me interested in that lol), and encourage people to try controlling, after preferring only to mess alone first and getting good at it.
Anybody interested in trying this out can contact me, write here, whatever. I'll be glad to collect their impressions of the "proof of concept" that is already working, though not yet released. Features: choice of any combination of APP/DEP/TWR positions, visual and ILS approaches, configurable departure-arrival balance, handovers to virtual neighbouring ATCs (GND, CTR, etc.). Wish list: see here.
Yours,
Michael.