You asked for information, I gave it. Passive-aggressively questioning the helpfulness of doing so is a bit rude, don't you think?
Times into the video. How else are you going to quickly navigate to the right position? UTC times are fine and all, but the video player doesn't know about those, so if you want to tell someone where exactly in a given video to look, this format is how everyone does it.
jomo wrote in Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:47 am:22:40:31 "NL256 NL256 inbound EDDF, no mumble today (sorry)" ----- At that given time there are 3 active targets on approach + 1 taking off + 5 to be watched according to FP-listing (changing position when the status changes). Any those 5 targets approaching/starting forced me to concentrate onto the airport area - so the NL256 is neither seen on radar nor as being "controlled" in the FP-listing -- and definitely 100 mi out, i.e. it was not a high priority-target at that time!
----- and why should ATC care about the full statement that someone types to himself??? Today I am not sure if I noticed that msg at all or read it completely because it did not show me as target address and I was busy!!!
Alright, note to self, name-tag messages and follow proper phraseology when initiating contact.
Note, however, that by the time I made that transmission, I was already within 50 miles of the airport (not 100), and the video shows that NL256 shows up in the strips section under "uncontrolled". I also remember from watching lots of your videos that you usually zoom out and / or check mpmap often, so under normal circumstances, I would have expected to have caught your attention already.
jomo wrote in Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:47 am:22:43:39 "NL256 ATCjomo, do you read me?"----- still no target on radar - and still very busy - I am not sure if I noticed that msg
I can't see your screen; I was well within contact range at this point, but I was suspecting a technical problem (MP chat not being transmitted). The video doesn't show me on the radar screen, but that's simply because it's zoomed too much. No way for me to know that.
jomo wrote in Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:47 am:22:54:41 "NL256 does ANYONE read me?"----- why should I notice/respond when that target is already past AP?? Anyone may answer - I am busy!22:54:41 "?"
23:00:23 "ping"
At this point I'm dropping the last bit of realism and just try to figure out whether this is a technical problem, and if so, whether the problem is on your end or mine. Nobody answers, so I conclude that, despite reconnecting multiple times, via multiple servers, my messages don't even make it to the MP server. Which is just bad luck, I figure, so I write the evening off and log off. After all, this has happened before, no big deal.
But upon watching the video, I saw that there was no technical problem at all, so I thought it might be enlightening to discuss the matter.
Here we go again with the passive aggression. Maybe it's just your relative lack of English language proficiency, but suggesting that someone's honest attempt at discussing a failed communication and learning from it is "nonsens" (sic) is pretty rude IMO.
tdammers wrote in Tue Jan 08, 2019 5:53 pm:I hope the list above gives you an idea why you got no response! And you should understand that from my point of view
you actually made only 1 acceptable try to contact ATC within 110 mi of approach"
I hope that example above is not what you want as realism!
As I've said before, the choice of realism level is completely up to you, I'm not making any demands on that front, I just want to know what the expectations are.
So, recap (correct me if I'm wrong):
- I should have made contact a bit earlier, right at the edge of the radar contact area rather than 10 miles in.
- Upon initial contact, I should have followed proper phraseology (station, callsign, current clearances and intentions).
- I should expect mumble users to be prioritized over MP chat.
- Would a filed flight plan have helped you notice me? If so, I'll be happy to provide one next time.
Does that sound like a decent summary?
And then, on a final note: I noticed that your control of the English language is nowhere near native; that's fine, but it seems that it sometimes word you things in a way that are quite rude or offensive when you don't mean to be. Please do take this as constructive criticism, I'm not trying to blame you here. When you write things like "{callsign}, WHO ALLOWED YOU TO PUSH BACK?????????????", it comes across like a German officer screaming into your face, when really you probably didn't mean to, and "{callsign}, you have not been cleared for pushback, STOP!" would have gotten the point across in a more professional and less offensive way. It's subtle, but it makes a huge difference, and as a native German speaker, I can understand where this is coming from, and that it's not always meant as offensive as it comes across. Other examples include calling people "idiots" (the word is quite a bit harder in English than in colloquial German), referring to constructive remarks as "nonsense", etc.
So maybe you could try and work on that a little? Or am I totally out of line here with this last bit?