Another ATC Idea

[Revelation]

Hey Guys, just wanted to run an idea by you that could potentially add functionality to the ATC menu.

 

So a lot of people are starting to use Voice programs to interact with the ATC menu. The idea is to have each menu item assigned a "call id." I envision call IDs could be 10 digit hexadecimal numbers that would be unique to each menu item.

 

Further enhancements could be that regardless of what menu the user was in, the "call ID' would be executed. So for instance if a user called out "Hog 1 inbound for landing." The user's voice program can be more easily configured that when "inbound" is detected that it will send the "call id" of C319A2CE55 to DCS. DCS knows that that particular value is menu option "request landing."

 

DCS can execute that command as it does today when someone is using the menu. This also means that people could utilize key-combinations more easily for certain menu options as well.

 

Here's another example: Let's say the user was just in the wingman menu, they didn't exit out of it or go back to the main menu. They are now approaching a tanker and need to notify the tanker that they are coming for some gas. By using "call ids" it doesn't matter where the user was in a menu, heck the user doesn't even need to see a menu at this point in time. The user voices his/her intentions to the tanker, the "call id" is sent to DCS, DCS does its radio/freq check and processes the call.

 

What I can, potentially, see happening is opening up more doors for users to have many more options without the need to code a specific menu and sub-option after sub-option. It would ultimately be similar to the way buttons are assigned and used in DCS / joysticks.

 

In the case of joysticks, they send a value to DCS and based off of settings in the controller setup in DCS it executes a specific function within program parameters.

 

Without knowing what is in store for the improved ATC, this may be a moot point.

[Aginor]

Sounds interesting, but I think I don't get yet how you would handle several tankers / airfields.