As noted on the Avsim main page, this is a new FSX add on which offers you three functions to improve your IFR airliner flights: a replacement ATC system, a. Hello all, I got yesterday the absolute coolest atc add on for fsx! It is on the market since 2012 (hope I'm right) and got several updates since that tim. Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition. I'm thinking of getting the PRO ATC/X add on and was wondering if anyone had any feedback on it?

As noted on the Avsim main page, this is a new FSX add on which offers you three functions to improve your IFR airliner flights: a replacement ATC system, a flight planner and a co-pilot. It is by German developer Pointsoft, who I've never heard of LOL. A link to the product site - note that the screenies at that site are tiny, and consequently don't show a lot, so I've posted some bigger ones here on this thread: At 40 quid (about 65 Dollars) this is not a cheap add-on, but then again it does do three fairly major things, so it would perhaps be better to think of it as several add-ons combined, which makes the price a bit easier to swallow (more on this below). What you initially see upon installation and having fired it up, is an interface which looks like this. Hi all, I am one of the developers of PRO-ATC/X and just want to clarify some points discussed here. Burns Leadership 1978 Pdf Files.

Flight plan Importing flight plans is not supported so far. Dro Scale Installation. The reason is that flight plans in fsx format don't know anything about SIDs and STARs. PRO-ATC/X assigns the sid and star procedures at run time, means after the flight is started, since the procedures to assign depends on wind heading and this can differ from flight to flight, especially when flying with real weather.

An fsx flight plan is already now generated and loaded automatically into the GPS. This is done in 2 steps.

Step1: When Clearance Delivery assigns a SID procedure or vectors, a flight plan containing all sid and airway waypoints is generated and loaded into the GPS. At this point we don't know which star procedure will be assigned later! Step2 is done after approach control assigns a star or verctors. Btw the generated fp is saved into the file 'proatcx.pln' in your personal fsx folder. AIRAC Data Importing airac data will be implemented with an update within the next few weeks Videos and a forum will be available tomorrow. But FSX does actually a good job in not being so 'robotic' audio compared to other atc addons I've seen.

I completely agree with this point. I've tried many ATC addons over the years and although some of them are procedurally better than the default FSX ATC they nearly always have a struggle sounding at all convincing. I agree that FSX's ATC voices are superbly done, since although they are actually triggered bits and pieces of voices, they are very cleverly put together to give a pretty convincing natural flow. As Chock also points out, ATC should never be hi-fi quality (some addon ATCs actually proudly claim 'recorded in hi resolution', which is quite silly as that is not as it should be - ATC should sound as low fi as possible, with middle and treble eq and almost no bass eq at all). The voices used for realistic ATC are every bit as important as the procedural system used, but many addons have at best a very poor implementation of voices, or worse still, a horrible use of microsoft or other 'virtual' voices which to my ears sound ridiculous.

But to be fair to the developers of these kinds of addons, it is a huge task to record then link together the hundreds of phrases, numbers and commands that an average ATC operator speaks, in a convincing way. I've never heard a better implementation of this than FSX's default ATC, and that encourages me to forgive the procedural mistakes.

I've been dealing with the default ATC and while it's 'just ok' for GA flying it's useless with PMDG's 737 add-on. Since it lacks SIDS, STARS, and not using ATC you contend with AI traffic running into you. Continuum Manual. Has created some interesting shared runway situations. I'm thinking of getting the PRO ATC/X add on and was wondering if anyone had any feedback on it? It looks pretty good from reviews and videos.

Looks like development was stalled for a bit but the developer seems back into it. I believe it's compatible with FSX:SE and loading your flight plan is relatively easy. It's one of the more expesnive addons so I've been hesitant. I've dropped quite a bit of coin on graphics goodies (FTX, ORBX, etc) but nothing on ATC. But skimping on ATC has made it kind of boring and after flying a long flight and having a collision is not fun. Turning off AI is an option but that seems even worse. Thanks for any advice.