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Cleared for Takeoff
A friend showed me this today. Pretty cool! For the ATCers here in particular, what do you think of it?
http://zlsa.github.io/atc/
http://zlsa.github.io/atc/
Our simulators use a similar set up but the way it works is there are two people working. One as a controller in one room in front of the scope or in the tower sim and then a "pseudo-pilot" across the room or in a different room who has a setup like this. The pseudo makes the planes do whatever the controller says to do and responds as a pilot would. So a landing clearance gets typed in by clicking on the plane and hitting the land button or typing in "c l 28 l" meaning cleared to land runway 28 left. It would be impossible to control by just typing in reality. Cant be fast enough some times.
We had voice recognition at the Navy schoolhouse. Sometimes it didn't work though and the instructor ended up typing in commands. It was funny because sometimes it was like the aircraft had a mind of their own. You'd clear them to land and they'd come back with "roger, Navy Alpha Charlie Two Zero One, go around right side..."
At our duty stations we used typing commands for sims. GCA was an easy setup but as an instructor on arrival, you'd be a typing fool. Sims can never replicate the dynamics of the real thing though.