


We’ve also allowed YOU the user to interact with ATC at this point but humans are not as simple as the AI planes. They just want to depart from one airport and arrive safely at another airport and the current ATC does that just fine. They don’t have many requests, they aren’t picky about their routings. Coupled with Ben’s new roads and railways, the X-Plane world is no longer a static world, it’s one that’s alive! AI aircraft are very low maintenance. Having AI aircraft buzzing around creates a living airport environment. The first stage was designed with one goal in mind: to create a system that’s comprehensive enough to give AI aircraft a purpose. We have to develop things in stages however and what you see is merely the first stage. There will never be a lack of new things that would be cool to have, there will never be a lack of things that can be changed for added realism etc. The reason is that the ATC system has the potential to be very large and very comprehensive much like the scenery system. If we waited months or even years before shipping X-Plane 10, I’d still be saying the same thing. What you are looking at now is not the way the final system will work. The features are going to expand moving forward. My goal here is to try and explain what you can expect from the system moving forward and describe the causes of some of the troubles that you might be having.įirst, as I’ve said before, what you see in the ATC system is just the tip of the iceberg. Many of you have had a good experience, others have found yourselves frustrated for various reasons. Many of you have taken the time to tinker around with the new ATC system.
