ATC Simulator 3D Voice Control

ATC Simulator 3D Voice Control is an air traffic control simulator where you work the radio with your own voice. In the ATC Academy, you start in the left seat of a trainer beside an instructor to learn the radio. You issue clearances in standard FAA phraseology, and pilots read them back before flying your instructions. Work from the 3D tower cab, the radar room on approach, or the cockpit flying an aircraft yourself.

ATC ACADEMY

You sit in the left seat of a Cessna 172 trainer at Palo Alto beside Hal, a flight instructor and former tower controller. In the first lesson you do the preflight, start the engine using the 3D switches, copy the ATIS, call Ground and taxi to the hold short line. In the second, Hal flies the pattern and a go-around while you work the Tower radio and spot traffic. Learn what a pilot does and says before working the tower, with a training record that signs off each lesson with instructor notes.

VOICE ON THE FREQUENCY

Press push-to-talk and speak: "Seacliff four zero one, descend and maintain five thousand, cleared ILS runway two five right." Pilots read back in distinct voices and fly it. Airline crews are brisk, students make readback errors, and MAYDAY crews sound frightened. Pilots ask you to say again, block calls, say standby, and request different runways or intersections. Tap any aircraft for touch commands.

TALK TO THE PILOTS

Beyond clearances, you can chat with pilots in your own words when workload permits. A logbook records these talks without scoring them.

THREE SEATS TO WORK

- Approach radar: vector arrivals onto the ILS with headings, altitudes and speeds, hold traffic, clear visual approaches, and hand off to the tower.

- 3D tower cab: watch the field from the cab. Give IFR clearances at the stand, drag strips to sequence departures, taxi aircraft along named taxiways, issue hold short, crossing, takeoff and landing clearances, and send arrivals around.

- Pilot in command: fly airliner decks with working autopilots, a turboprop, a light single, or a fighter while the tower is worked for you. You make each radio call and readback yourself. Use the stick and a separate throttle lever to take off by hand, let the autopilot fly the ILS, or hand-fly visual finals and the Palo Alto VFR circuit for a landing grade.

THE AIRPORTS AND THE FLEET

Work three fields: San Francisco International (KSFO) with crossing parallel runways, Palo Alto (KPAO) where you fit VFR traffic into a pattern of flight school trainers, and Bayview, the training airport, with over 25 aircraft types from the Cessna 172 to the A380.

WEATHER, WINTER AND EMERGENCIES

Rain lengthens landing rolls and fog forces go-arounds. In a Bayview winter, crews de-ice and report braking action. With emergencies on, aircraft may hit birds or suffer smoke, engine, or hydraulic failure, declaring a MAYDAY or PAN-PAN as you dispatch the rescue trucks.

LEARN THE PHRASEOLOGY AND RULES

Phraseology follows FAA Order JO 7110.65. In first shifts, a help card shows what to say back, the score sheet cites each rule, and the handbook opens the FAA paragraph. Screens come in five languages while the radio is in English.

Also in the game: 23 instructor-voiced lessons, a guided first shift, 18 ground school chapters with a glossary, and 42 Radio School drills.

OFFLINE AND ONLINE PLAY

The simulation, weather, emergencies, scoring, lessons, handbook and pilot voices all work offline. Without a connection, voice control uses your phone's own speech recognizer if an offline English speech pack is installed, and touch commands always work. An internet connection adds the live world: cloud speech recognition for your clearances, and live, directed events in your shift.

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