[HN Gopher] OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator
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       OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator
        
       Author : kqr
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2024-02-07 09:35 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.openscope.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.openscope.io)
        
       | kqr wrote:
       | For beginners a recommendation is to (a) switch to a lower-
       | activity airport, and (b) go through the tutorial, which is
       | actually very well integrated with the gameplay.
        
         | pncnmnp wrote:
         | Thanks! I'm still going through the tutorial, but this looks
         | neat! I love ATC games.
         | 
         | There are some other fun ones out there, like ATC-Manager-2
         | (https://github.com/sempostma/atc-manager-2) and BSD's atc
         | (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atc). On Android,
         | I've had fun memories playing Endless ATC and Unmatched Air
         | Traffic Control. One thing I've noticed about these ATC games
         | is that they tend to be more radar-based than ground-based. I
         | kinda made an attempt to create a ground-based ATC last year -
         | https://github.com/pncnmnp/roger.
         | 
         | Also, tangentially, a few months back, I was browsing my local
         | bookstore when I came across a poster on "Navitrainer" - this
         | was a flight simulator from the forties -
         | https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/navitrainer.html - fascinating
         | stuff!
        
           | singleshot_ wrote:
           | Another fun experience: X-plane + VATSIM. Decent quality
           | flight sim plus community of real-time simulated air traffic
           | controllers.
        
             | jachee wrote:
             | To clarify here, the VATSIM controllers are real humans.
             | The traffic is simulated, but also "real", in that it's
             | human sim pilots flying "on network." And the network is
             | sim-agnostic. I'm still working on being good enough with
             | my plane in MSFS to be able to fly online.
        
       | jmk123 wrote:
       | This game has been around for many years. I remember playing it
       | for hours when it first came out and really enjoying eventually
       | getting into a flow state.
        
       | jiveturkey wrote:
       | Wasn't there an ATC game for Apple ][? I vaguely remember playing
       | it and loving that game.
       | 
       | In 2024 I would like this game to have voice controls, with pilot
       | voice responses.
        
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