ATC?

chardly38 · May 4, 2014

When are you ED planing on fixing ATC. The ONLY airport that it works at is Anapa. Its getting annoying that new features have been added but the MOST important feature for cold start is still not working. Instead it having US aircraft smoke like Russian aircraft fix what's not working.PLEASE:thumbup:

Sceptre · May 4, 2014

You sure you're using the right frequency?

badger66 · May 4, 2014

I wish you could call in an emergency landing and get priority clearance among other things .

Maxzouz · May 4, 2014

I think Wags talked about improvments fort ATCs in an old update. Maybe it will come along with EDGE.

For me it's the repeated "hold position" when you're taxiing with a friend. This should have been fixed as it's a realism breaker.

But we had big updates lately, we should be patient. DCS has a great future

chardly38 · May 4, 2014

You sure you're using the right frequency?

Fixed wing aircraft have stopped working. You get a response to startup then after that its no longer your option to ask for taxi or takeoff.

ATC has not been working for along time. It would be nice to get a responce from ED to when they are deciding to getting it to work again.

and yes im on the right frequency. I have been flying sense A10c 1.1.1.1

Here is what happens every time. Ask ATC for startup. Get a responce. If i close the ATC menu it will not come back up. I just get AUTO. If I leave the

ACT window open. It will get stuck open right after the bit test when audio is being tested and the A10 says pullup pullup. Then the menu window will not close until off the ground.

chardly38 · May 4, 2014

I think Wags talked about improvments fort ATCs in an old update. Maybe it will come along with EDGE.

For me it's the repeated "hold position" when you're taxiing with a friend. This should have been fixed as it's a realism breaker.

But we had big updates lately, we should be patient. DCS has a great future

I get, understand and welcome working on the sim and making things better but when they decide to to change something that is not going to work would it not make more sense to leave it broken at there end and not send it out to us not working. And why is it only one airport that works.

Sabre-TLA · May 4, 2014

That must be with the Easy Communication option. Try it with the option off and setting your radio to the tower frequency of the airport you are at.

It's been working fine that way for all versions including the latest 1.2.8 (at least for me).

Snoopy · May 4, 2014

What ATC is in the sim is extremely weak and IMO useless.

joey45 · May 4, 2014

It needs a complete overhaul.. By theat I mean a new one but belive it or not takes alot of time coding and recording and testing...

I'm sure it is on EDs VERY LONG todo list.

cichlidfan · May 4, 2014

What ATC is in the sim is extremely weak and IMO useless.

Agreed. A 'No ATC Messages' check box would be nice until a new one can be implemented.

Dr_Arrow · May 4, 2014

What ATC is in the sim is extremely weak and IMO useless.

ATC has always been useless in DCS. For me even bigger problem is the inability of AIs to land in the current version...ATC can be ignored for most of the time, however I cannot ignore the chaos which AIs create in landing pattern - interrupting landings before touchdown, plowing and flying underground, crashing by landing, taxiing on runway in opposite direction, etc...

chardly38 · May 4, 2014

That must be with the Easy Communication option. Try it with the option off and setting your radio to the tower frequency of the airport you are at.

It's been working fine that way for all versions including the latest 1.2.8 (at least for me).

No tryed it,. with or with out easy communication it is allways the same. close out the menu and all i get is VHF AM with no options.

lanmancz · May 4, 2014

Agreed. A 'No ATC Messages' check box would be nice until a new one can be implemented.

^^ This. I pretty much ignore the ATC completely nowdays.

nhowell01 · May 6, 2014

It needs a complete overhaul.. By theat I mean a new one but belive it or not takes alot of time coding and recording and testing...

I'm sure it is on EDs VERY LONG todo list.

This has been on the to do list for a VERY long time. In fact, since last summer I recall an ATC over haul being a major point of effort specifically outlined in a patch.

At any rate the instability and hit or miss of the ATC and JTACS is absurd.

joey45 · May 6, 2014

Maybe the coding for the new ATC is having problems...Or it needs other stuff to be implemented first.... Maybe.

mytai01 · July 7, 2014

Repercussions for disobeying ATC!

There needs to be serious repercussions for disobeying ATC. Like having access to the game restricted or cancelled. That will increase everyones sense of stress!:lol:

Phantom453 · July 7, 2014

ATC would be one of those lingering issues I'd most like to see fixed in a general period of consolidation after the release of EDGE. Indeed ED were working on a revamped ATC back around 1.2.4 (I think it was) but put it on the the back burner due to staff turn over and other competing issues AFAIK. There is quite a list now of these "never worked correctly" or "got broken during update X.X.X" sort of issues that need to get sorted in a general tidy up of the game - before we move on with any more significant changes/ improvements IMHO.

Gh0st007 · July 7, 2014

ATC would be one of those lingering issues I'd most like to see fixed in a general period of consolidation after the release of EDGE. Indeed ED were working on a revamped ATC back around 1.2.4 (I think it was) but put it on the the back burner due to staff turn over and other competing issues AFAIK. There is quite a list now of these "never worked correctly" or "got broken during update X.X.X" sort of issues that need to get sorted in a general tidy up of the game - before we move on with any more significant changes/ improvements IMHO.

Agreed!

johnv2pt0 · July 19, 2014

Any talk of ATC improvements? I'm curious what kind of priority is has for being fixed or overhauled in the overall dcs product development (high, medium, low).

NullSpace · July 19, 2014

ATC would be one of those lingering issues I'd most like to see fixed in a general period of consolidation after the release of EDGE. Indeed ED were working on a revamped ATC back around 1.2.4 (I think it was) but put it on the the back burner due to staff turn over and other competing issues AFAIK. There is quite a list now of these "never worked correctly" or "got broken during update X.X.X" sort of issues that need to get sorted in a general tidy up of the game - before we move on with any more significant changes/ improvements IMHO.

Agreed. I'm happy to wait until EDGE comes out, but I'm going to be hesitant to invest in more DCS modules until they fix some of the longstanding issues in their existing products.

NineLine · July 20, 2014

Hey guys, not trying to censor you, but lets try this, give me specific bugs in separate threads, such as actions and behaviors that you see are wrong, and I will report them as needed (some may already be reported).

Please try and include a track I can view or explicit steps to recreate so I can create a track myself. I will do my best to give you updates on progress made, as well as bugs that have already been reported.... thanks for the input already and thanks in advance for any bugs you report now.

Any more questions, feel free to PM me.