Hi there! Thank you for your appreciation!
RobAndrew wrote in Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:54 am:A quick few questions: When getting ILS Information, should the nav frequency be given at all for the localizer? Obviously it makes sense that you would already have it, but surely there is a scenario where one may need to ask for such a frequency? Or should you just have to rely on a map or chart?
I asked myself this so many times and I do not know whether ATC should provide ILS frequency or not. As far as I can tell, according to all the manuals and documentation I read about ATC phraseology, I have never found a case in which ILS frequency is provided by ATC, so I tried to comply to that. Like I said, I do not have a real pilot license, so I have no experience in real ATC procedures.
Technically speaking, ILS frequency is an information available in FlightGear data and properties, so it can be easily determined according to any airport and runway. This means it would be super easy to implement such a function, that is ATC instructing the pilot about ILS frequency.
I am open to any idea and suggestion about this subject , as well as feedback from any experienced pilot who certainly know more about this than I could possibly know.
In case this information should be provided by the ATC, how the corresponding phraseology should be?
RobAndrew wrote in Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:54 am:Secondly, I think i've already mentioned this (And I don't think it's being implemented yet) Was there any chance of it keeping you clear of AI traffic? giving you altitudes and headings that wouldn't put you on collision course with AI? I can understand this could be very difficult.
Yes, I am planning to implement AI traffic in the next stable release. As far as I can tell, FlightGear properties provide information about AI and multiplayer traffic, so I think it is quite easy to consider those information and have the ATC to work accordingly. It is a planned feature.
RobAndrew wrote in Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:54 am:And thirdly, was there any plans on implementing pattern work? Each Airport may have its own pattern to enter or leave the landing zone. Of course getting hold of these and implementing is understandably tedious. I was just curious to se if it had been considered.
I have no idea about this. I do not know whether FlightGear provides such information about airports. In case there is a way to get such information and data, I would be more than happy to implement this and it would be extremely interesting.
Maybe we can consider a sort of "standard procedure" to be used for all airports? Or at least to have a set of "standard pattern procedures" to be used "at random" in order to make the experience "relatively real"?
RobAndrew wrote in Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:54 am:Either way it looks like great progress and i'm really exited to use it and see it progress. This has truly given me a sense of inspiration to develop the sim further along with everyone else. You're doing a great job and i'd love to see more from you!
Thank you for your appreciation, feedback and ideas. I am very glad to know you are enjoying my Red Griffin ATC and, moreover, it has given you a sense of inspiration to the development of this beautiful flight simulator.
Developing Red Griffin ATC meant to me many things. First of all, it is an addon I really missed and wanted to have in FlightGear. Now I cannot even think about using FlightGear without my addon. I believe it gives FlightGear a new "realistic dimension" and I am pretty happy with the development so far. And, of course, this is also thanks to the many ideas, suggestions and feedback you all gave me in this thread. Every and each feedback has been a tremendous help and encouragement to develop Red Griffin ATC the way it is now.
Secondly, I am a FlightGear user since the very first release (1997) and I spent countless hours in using this flight simulator and enjoyed tremendously the progress of the development efforts. It is a good software and my addon is my "little" contribution to this project and a way to express gratitude to all the FlightGear community. Being a professional software designer/developer for more than 35 years now, I understand the efforts and commitment the whole team put in developing FlightGear and, for this reason, I wanted to "do my part", even though, a very little one. I am very happy to read this addon gave you the inspiration and will to contribute to the development. That's great!