I can't even count the number of hours I've wasted on atc-sim. But I don't know how much I'll be using it from now on after I found this: http://www.acc.umu.se/~simsoft/download.php. It's like atc-sim, but better. You're actually just TRACON (not both tower and TRACON), it has a zoomable (and customizable) map, and works with both text-to-speach (the "pilots" talk to you) and speach-recognition (you can control it using actual voice comands!).
I couldn't get it to install on XP Home. Too bad, because I really need somewhere else to waste my time.
UGH. Thanks Jesse!! Against my better judgement, I saw this thread yesterday and thought "Hmm, I have about 5 minutes before i go pick up the kids at school. I'll just check it out."
you can probably figure out the rest of the story....
kids spent the night at school?