Hello everybody.
This is about ATC coordination, and Wolfram's handover server in particular, used jointly by OpenRadar and ATC-pie clients. I would like to request a lightweight feature for fairly significant impact: a private type of messaging through the server.
We could easily allow new <chatmsg> elements be sent to the server, and:
- <chatmsg> received by the server is only forwarded to whatever list of callsigns is included
- <chatmsg> received by a client is simply displayed on chat
- up to the client to decide whether a chat message goes through public or private chat.
In my opinion this would account for more realistic coordination. At the moment, controllers are using the public chat system which is killing the "backstage" nature of the work. And I reckon FGMS will not be implementing this any time soon.
What do you think?