ATControl -- Joe

Floored by the amount of requests on this first day for the custom schedule! Absolutely awesome! Happy to give you guys something cool and fresh to work with!

Good Day All, Happy to announce that I have completed a full custom schedule overhaul for LAX. This is the first of many to come, and is being offered for FREE to the community. If you are interested, send me a direct message and I will supply the files for you. CUSTOM SCHEDULE #1 -- FULL day action from Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX) from September 2, 2017. A full day of flights. 1600+ flights re-coded and tested for that day alone! **EDITED** The most recent version of the Schedule & Terminal files are written as of 10-4-2017. **Edit as of 10-14-2017 -- Fixed a Fiji flight that had incorrect coding. Re-posted to Dropbox with updated file. (Thanks to Winsaudi for the find) **Edit as of 10-4-2017 -- Schedule file updated with Mokulele Airlines (BUG) flights (8 total) that were omitted on original draft. Please note....go into your klax_airlines.txt file and change the "SPEEDBUGGY" callsign to "MAHALO" which is the correct callsign. (Thanks to Ron for the reminder of these omitted flights). **Edit as of 10-1-2017 -- Only the TERMINAL file was updated. An error was found causing EVA flights not to load for departure or arrive as it was listed as EVE. This is corrected now to EVA. If you do not have the files at all -OR- need the updated files, you can visit my dropbox and pick them up. DROPBOX -- KLAX Custom Traffic # 1 -- 9-2-2017 // Notes & Highlights to this (9-2-2017) LAX Schedule overhaul // 2017 CORRECT!!! terminal re-alignment. Terminal schedule updated for CURRENT day LAX !!! -- DAL now flying out of Terminals 2 & 3 -- ALL correct international heavies shifted to their correct home of Terminal TBIT. -- American Airlines shifted to Terminal 4 & 5 -- Spirit Wings, JetBlue, Sun Country, Hawaiian and more shift to southern side of airport to Terminal 5 -- Air Canada moved from Terminal 2 to Terminal 6, along with Virgin America. -- GOAL of the custom schedule is to eliminate huge gaps of no traffic at most times of the day. -- GOAL of using REAL WORLD schedule from a set day with complete flight schedule, correct aircraft types, and gates. MORE AIRLINES!!! -- including.... -- Boutique Air -- Sun Country -- LAN Peru -- Hainan Airlines -- Air Berlin -- Fiji Airlines -- LACSA -- Various Cargo flights using the designated cargo area of LAX on the southern edge -- Kalitta Air -- ABEX Cargo -- FedEx -- AirBridge Cargo -- China Air Cargo -- Proper use of E175's for Skywest & Compass (these fly w/o livery due to Nyerges not having the pairing in place) -- Some of you may prefer E170's that have the livery if you're into color watching. I have a 2nd version of the same schedule with the aircraft type changed. -- Virgin Atlantic with correct 787-900 aircraft -- Correct use of Singapore & China Eastern 77W aircraft (both are missing livery due to Nyerges not having pairing in place) -- Some aircraft like Hainan are in the game, however they do not have a current livery. Nyerges has been notified. HAPPY CONTROLLING!!!!

Good request, but not in this game. See other posts. This has already been discussed a zillion times with the devs. Their version of LAX is outdated so bad.

Maybe the sim engine is just bad/slow/old/needs updating etc and doesn't use an accurate timer ha. If it's w/in 5 seconds, I'll take that. That's good enough for me and close enough to 1:1. BTW, when i record gameplay, I don't do 1 hour of "game sim" time. I monitor my recording software's clock because i know FOR SURE that that program is accurate. :D P.S. Much appreciated for the channel visits and views!

I also play dual monitors unless I'm recording gameplays. I never have lag issues with dual monitors. Remember, the game is on an old engine, and most lag is because the game can't handle all that it offers (i.e. too much traffic on the screen). Only other thing that might cause lag is if you have a video-card that is is a little outdated. I run an 8GB video card and the game runs just fine everytime. Any others with less than 8GB's video cards have issues?

Vic, Looking to get an updated understanding on taxiing. An aircraft calls in for landing clearance and clicking on the plane on the AIDRS shows what terminal the plane is going to however it doesn't show the gate position. Plane lands and you click on the plane or say it's callsign and we are still shown what gate "area" the plane is going to but are still not show the green-circle T indicating the exact gate location. Why is this? I need to give an exact route to move the jet around other traffic but without knowning the exact gate I'm taking guesses. I could say "Aa123 taxi to the terminal" and then I'm shown the gate where I then have to give a 2nd command to now move them on the best route based on current traffic. This is a waste of time to have to give the same jet 2 instructions. Obv the sim knows where the plane needs to end up bc it designates the terminal but why are we not shown the gates right from the start when the plane calls in or at a worst case when the plane touches down?

A good controller doesn't need to see 'liveries' on a plane. A data tag and a sense of location and anything is possible. If you're controlling based on finding a color on an airfield, then you're wasting time when today's technology will do it all

Ahv-E-unk-Ah works for me. Say it slower or faster. Sim has a problem w A-letter aircraft at various times. Like ABEX cargo that lands/departs ATL and LAX, I could say that name 20 times and get it to pick up maybe 2-3 of those attempts

Gabor, I'm noticing on your list here that there is no line item for RC LAX (the stand alone). Seems to be still downloading sp2v2. I assume via the line above that LAX was updated. What is the version for the updated LAX that we should be seeing? Joe

Needs to be written with a "PDT" starting. US Airways was merged and is now American. So US Air & Cactus don't exist anymore -- not sure why the developers leave that in there. It's been mentioned before. Maybe it's to appease all us custom builders who'd like to go back in time. However,, I have the urge to build some custom schedules and liveries and put US Airways back in the game. Someone mentioned Pan Am earlier....that'd be fun! Maybe I'll throw in some TWA & Northwest too! :D *Custom schedules definitely are more fun ha! :D

You won't see Piedmont bc Piedmont is not a "major airline". It's a regional service that flies under parent company American and wears the American livery. Easy way to think about it is if you go to Expedia or Travelocity you won't see "Piedmont Airlines" as a source to book. They just get named Piedmont by flight regionalization.

Noted. Updates to cards this evening sometime.

Thanks. Quite helpful

Okie Dokie. Changes coming. Thanks for letting me know. Haven't had time to mess with the new files yet.

GJS at JFK is pronounced in the game as "GATEWAY". I know it's supposed to be "Lindberg". Not sure what to do with that one. I built the JFK card based on what I heard in the game. Not sure if that's Vic or Nyerges who needs to get that one at JFK edited. If I can get a confirm that JFK is fixed, I'll change the card over.

Gabor, Thanks for the update. Just a suggestion for going forward -- When giving us the notices of these updates, it would be helpful to say something like : "We removed the duplicated entries for Real Traffic and we added missing Real Color liveries for KPHL, KATL, KLAS, KJFK and for the Real Color Bundle. As usual existing customers can re-download their products from FeelThere and the other resellers. The most up to date version for Real Traffic is v XXX . Real color for each airport should be version vXXX." This will help us as a community know we are up to date, and if we see a wrong version, we can then seek out help. Joe

Agreed on the bringing airports up to date. I would much rather prefer LAX and LAS brought up to speed instead of sending out more and more new airports that will have issues and create an ever longer list to correct.

Cool, Thanks for the links and comments. I went and put a comment on that post from earlier this year asking Vic what was up. Doesn't surprise me we never got a response. Another black hole issue never addressed by the developers. I'm going to build my own game. I will give everyone more cargo parking spots then they know what to do with!!!!!

Vic, What's the word on this? We never saw a reply to your comments in March and it's been 6 months. Has this even been looked at? Obviously you build in parking spots on that south end of the airport, but there is no use to them. Just curious as to why this is still not available?

Craig, Good work on this. I was about to dive in and re-work LAX terminals because they are so out of wack in the current game files. So many international flights leaving out of wrong terminals. Thanks for saving me the afternoon ha. Question though....in the screen cap below....I've circled gates to the south of 25L where cargo flights go in real life (as far as I know). You're saying there is nothing in the game that lets them leave from there? Kinda strange they would put those gates in the game but give no access to them?? (I know LAX is lacking A LOT of other things in this game such as the T1-T taxiway for Terminal B departures and the remotes gates out by 6R) I'm not from the LA area, but where do GA jets even park (in real life) at LAX? (i.e. Where is the game putting GA flights if/when they ever show up)?

Gotcha, I see what you're saying. I thought you were meaning why the chart is the way it is. I know the way it is in the game is b/c of airport direction REGARDLESS of where the tower is.

Yeah, it should always be the view related to the FAA chart. It's set based on the real world direction that the airport sits.

Richard, Almost wrapped up on LAX. Still testing out some of the GA traffic and cargo terminal use. Cost -- NOTHING!!!! I do this for fun. I'm not going to charge anything since we're getting screwed by Nyerges and their lazy ways. If we can't depend on them for something quality, I'm more than happy to give something of quality.

Willem & AC, Thanks for the replies. Let me change it around and see what I can figure out. I'll report back on my findings. Joe