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The Control Room Floor / Re: Pilot Expectations, cont...
« on: July 06, 2021, 08:57:44 PM »

(As an aside, why is it that when I connect with the wrong vis range, I almost instantly get a message from a SUP, but it can take 5-10+ minutes to get a problematic pilot removed? Is this an automation issue? If so, all the more reason to empower controllers. Let us help the supervisors.)

TBH, the vis range enforcers make controlling demoralizing. I recall doing an event where I was doing Local instead of my usual approach position. I didn’t downgrade my vis range, and was pretty busy. Some SUP had nothing more important to do besides send me messages about my vis range. Meanwhile any OBS or any pilot could connect with 4 times my vis range and be just fine. This made sense, maybe, back 15 years ago. But now? It might be nice to not gratuitously piss off your controllers, especially the instructors. Just saying

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The Flight Deck / Re: X-Plane on a Mac?
« on: July 31, 2018, 04:04:25 PM »
If it’s still an issue, hook him up with me, Rob. I’m on the Vatstar Discord. Have several hundred hours on XPlane with Macs.

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The Classroom (Controller Tips) / Re: Mac OS - will it work
« on: July 31, 2018, 03:56:18 PM »
I’m quite happy with VMWare Fusion for vATIS, vSTARS, VRC, and TWRTrainer. Currently using 27” iMac with two 27 inch 4K on the side. A trackball works a lot better than a mouse or trackpad. USB headset works fine.

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