ATC: Climb 300 at blah blah blah

[Skall]

When you request permission to takeoff from ATC and they say "climb 300...",what is this 300? Don't think it is a heading since it is always 300 regardless of what airport/runway I use. Is it an altitude? 300ft is well below TPA. If it is FL300, why do they want me climbing so high?

 

Can anyone shed any light on this?

[genbrien]

300 meters?(about 1000')

 

ATC is metric IIRC

[Eddie]

The current DCS ATC is in need of a lot of work, as put simply, it's pretty much useless. Don't try and work out why it tells you do one thing or another because there really isn't any way to apply realistic logic to it.

 

Hopefully in the near future when ED have the resources we'll get a proper ATC system. Until then, I wouldn't bother.

[Justin Case]

Get some friends online and have them do some ATC, that's what we've done once or twice now!

 

It gives it a nice touch :)

[Steel Jaw]

Falcon ATC remains good IMHO, perhaps look at it for inspiration.

[Skall]

Alright then, I'll just ignore the jerk in the tower. Never liked him anyways. He keeps calling me Tusk even though I selected Colt as my callsign in the ME.

[JujuMan]

I tweaked the atc sound file folder to omit those calls....;)

[Silver_Dragon]

The current DCS ATC is in need of a lot of work, as put simply, it's pretty much useless. Don't try and work out why it tells you do one thing or another because there really isn't any way to apply realistic logic to it.

 

Hopefully in the near future when ED have the resources we'll get a proper ATC system. Until then, I wouldn't bother.

 

Interesting Interesting....... ¿future DCS:ATC/GCI/AWACS? :music_whistling:

[Mainstay]

atc is very poor quality indeed. i hope they will get it right in the end.

[IvanK]

Interesting Interesting....... ¿future DCS:ATC/GCI/AWACS? :music_whistling:

 

Yes there's a thought Human GCI/AWACS and ATC .... though could probably do without ATC :)

[Manuel]

maybe hire an indian call center :D

[Eihort]

Interesting Interesting....... ¿future DCS:ATC/GCI/AWACS? :music_whistling:

 

The Mig-21 will almost require it to be effective in a modern battlefield.

[Matte71]

ATC talk

 

Q code-

QFE :Atmospheric pressure at sea level, corrected for temperature and adjusted to a specified datum such as airfield elevation. When set on the altimeter it reads height.

 

Sample use-

 

 

Runway in use 22 Left, QFE 990 millibars

 

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code

[Harke]

DCSATC :) http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=95291

[BRooDJeRo]

A bit of 2013 wax n polish wouldn't hurt indeed. Just 10 random messages can do alot already.

[Anatoli-Kagari9]

I think they mean FL300 = 30.000'

[osram]

If people actually use it, it's still not completely useless when it comes to take-off/landing permission and preventing accidents. At least when it comes to not let 2 different people take off and land at the same time. And I think it will kind of even "warn" when theres some crashed plane on the runway. So I would recommend people to still use it in MP for taking off and landing.

 

But yes. It is rather basic. For me personally it's still an enigma on how to get the ILS working reliably with the ATC, for example.. kinda broken. Also the Bearing/Heading replies from the ATC to properly move to the start of a landing glide-path don't make sense to me either.

 

A better or more realistic AI ATC system or even a human player controlled ATC/Awacs role for CA would be quite great indeed, I agree.

[BRooDJeRo]

You listen to the ATC and climb with yur fully loaded A10C to 30.000 k!! :huh::music_whistling:

[commandar]

Also the Bearing/Heading replies from the ATC to properly move to the start of a landing glide-path don't make sense to me either.

 

Set your HSI to the runway he gives you (e.g., runway 09 is going to be at roughly 90 degrees) and then turn to the heading he gives you. When the deviation indicator on your HSI centers up, turn to the runway heading and you should be on the glide path, generally 10-15 miles from the runway.

 

EDIT:

 

You need to have ILS selected on the NMSP as well. It's the set of buttons just under the HSI.

Edited March 14, 2013 by commandar

[tomcatter]

maybe hire an indian call center :D

:doh: Why indian? are they good doing ATC.....?