Sascha Ternes

Hi Pete, what you write about Radar Contact 4 sounds great! But I wonder how it will manage to have exclusive control over AI if MS ATC is still giving instructions to it, even if you turn off the volume and disable automatic opening of the ATC window. I think AI traffic has to be hidden from MS ATC somehow; maybe RC will contain it's own AI traffic engine?

Hi Pete, thank you very much for your quick and informative reply. I checked out Radar Contact and VoxATC. They both seem to do what I want. But they don't disable MS-ATC, right? I wonder if MS-ATC is still active and calls AI planes when running Radar Contact. And AI planes can still get in your way if they are not controlled by the custom ATC I think. Sascha

Hi Pete, I am thinking about disabling MS-ATC and writing my own ATC via FSUIPC. Since it seems to be difficult or impossible to disable ATC in normal mode, I thought using multiplayer mode could make it possible, but I would loose all AI traffic then. My question is: Do you know a way to enable AI traffic in multiplayer mode? I looked into the FSUIPC SDK and found some AI related variables - is there a general switch for AI traffic? And because custom ATC has to manage AI traffic, can you make use of some write-access variables to control AI traffic? I sadly guess Multiplayer AND AI will be impossible... :( Sascha