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Virtual Airlines / Christmas in Colorado
« on: December 07, 2010, 09:29:33 AM »
We are too, Harold.. I'm looking forward to the event!
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I like this idea and have discussed it with many others. Just as we have Ratings and Major Facility certs for controllers, we should have Flight Rules for Pilots. New to the network? Guess what.. you're not allowed to operate at a Class Bravo (Major) Airport until you earn your VFR. Next step is IFR Training. IFR Training teaches you how to fly sids, stars and ILS approaches at a minimum. Now you can fly VFR on the network.
Of course a new pilot client would have to be written that would boot a newbie off the network if they connected at a Major Airport, unless selecting the "Observer" mode, which would disable your Voice OUT comms and Text out on the radio, and somehow through FSUIPC would prevent your aircraft from moving about. But again, the whole connecting with a callsign thing is something I totally disagree with. The architecture of VATSIM needs to be revamped. No more filing flightplans through the pilot client, you must prefile, just as in the real world. Controllers should be able to change an aircrafts callsign just as they are able to do in the real world. Pilots login only selecting their multiplayer aircraft make/model and livery. Flightplans are correlated to squawk codes issued automatically by the system when the flight plan is filed, using a beacon allocation program......
I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on. I know some of you are drooling......
Andrew