ATC Simulator 3D Voice Control

Hold push to talk, clear Seacliff 42 for takeoff, and watch it roll down runway two seven. Pilots answer in distinct voices, read back your FAA clearances, and sometimes make errors or declare MAYDAY. Work the 3D tower, approach radar, or the cockpit at San Diego, San Francisco, and Palo Alto.

VOICE AND TOUCH COMMANDS

Every instruction to an aircraft can be spoken aloud using FAA Order JO 7110.65 phraseology. Clear Fogline 218 for the ILS runway two eight right approach, tell Tidewell 35 to line up and wait, or issue taxi routes, headings, altitudes, and speeds. Tapping any aircraft opens touch commands as an alternative.

PILOTS ON THE FREQUENCY

Pilots answer in distinct voices and read back your instructions before flying them. They ask to say again, call standby, block each other, and sometimes read back wrongly so you have to correct them. Airline crews sound brisk and student pilots sound hesitant. A crew declaring MAYDAY breaks in sounding frightened and calms down as you handle it. When workload allows, you can talk to pilots in your own words, and a logbook keeps these talks.

AIRPORTS AND AIRCRAFT

All three airports are built in 3D over aerial ground imagery with the surrounding city and water.

- San Diego International (KSAN): One runway with downtown and the bay beside it.

- San Francisco International (KSFO): Crossing pairs of close parallel runways on the bay.

- Palo Alto (KPAO): A general aviation field with a VFR traffic pattern of flight school trainers.

- 34 aircraft types: Direct traffic from the Cessna 172 and ATR 72 to the Boeing 737, Airbus A380, and F-16.

THREE SEATS TO WORK

- 3D Tower: Watch the field from inside the tower cab, sequence traffic with flight strips, manage taxi, clear takeoffs and landings, and place cameras around the field.

- Approach Radar: Vector arrivals onto the ILS with headings, altitudes, and speeds, hold traffic, and hand off to the tower.

- Cockpit as Pilot: Fly airliners with working autopilot, a turboprop, a light single, or a fighter using the throttle and stick, while making every radio call and readback to the computer controller.

CAREER AND DAILY PLAY

Work tower shifts at San Diego and San Francisco, each ending in a checkride. Shifts are scored out of 100 on separation, delay, and phraseology, and the score sheet cites the FAA rule for each call. In Open Shift, choose your settings or pick a real past day from the calendar to work that day's real flight timetable and weather. Daily Shift gives every player the same flights each day.

ATC ACADEMY

Start on an intro flight into San Diego, making tower calls beside Hal, a former controller. The Academy has 26 guided lessons covering approach, San Diego tower, and cockpit lessons in a Cessna 172 at Palo Alto, including engine start by checklist with 3D switches. Practice in Radio School with 42 short drills, or read 18 ground school chapters, a glossary, and the built-in FAA handbook.

EMERGENCIES AND WEATHER

Handle bird strikes, engine trouble, smoke, hydraulic, fuel, and medical emergencies. Pilots declare MAYDAY or PAN-PAN while you give priority and send rescue vehicles. Work at dawn, day, dusk, or night in rain, fog, low cloud, and wind shifts. Wet runways lengthen landing rolls and low visibility causes go-arounds.

OFFLINE PLAY AND LANGUAGES

The simulation, lessons, and handbook work offline. Without a connection, voice control uses the phone's own speech recognizer if an offline English speech pack is installed, and touch commands always work. Online adds cloud speech recognition and live directed events. Screens are in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, and Hindi. The radio is always in English.

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