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The manual contains incorrect examples for issuing taxiway instructions. For example, for departing aircraft, it gives the example: " CALLSIGN, RUNWAY XX TAXI VIA TAXIWAY X (TAXIWAY Z, TAXIWAY Y". I had a brutally difficult time with getting the sim to understand such commands, until I realized by accident that all I needed to say was "Callsign, Runway XX, Taxi via X, Z, Y." That is to say that the word "Taxiway" is not a part to the phrasing at all. For literally minded people like myself, it would be helpful to revise the relevant examples accordingly.
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I thought that Pro would just automatically recognize displaced thresholds in every airport and adjust traffic accordingly. Perhaps Vic could offer a bit more insight into how this works, and whether there is a problem or intent to go back and include them in the other airports that have them.
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Ah, okay, so that's where the disconnect is. Hopefully, this will be an easy fix for Vic & the team.
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AT JFK, taxiway KK is pronounce by the pilot voice letter by letter. Instead of saying "kilo kilo", she spells it out as "K I L O K I L O". Is there an easy way to fix this ourselves, as we can with Airlines names, such as "Jet Blue", or will the developer need to get involved? I cannot find any text files that list all the names of the taxiways at airports.
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Thank you Vic
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47 minutes ago, FeelThere said:
KJFK has no displaced thresholds.
Vic
I beg to differ. Please take a closer look at the approach ends of Runways 31R, and 22R, for example. Both have substantial displaced thresholds, that are visibly marked, both in the sim, and in the real world.
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5 minutes ago, winsaudi said:
How to kill the Sticky Keys pop up: when the annoying bix pops up, click on the hyperlink to go to 'Set up Stick Keys' then ensure that the box next to 'Turn on Sicky Keys if shift is pressed 5 times' is unchecked. That's it. Done.
As Left-Shift is the default key for this, it might be a good idea to mention this conflict in the manual, along with the work-around. Hint hint ;-)
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4 minutes ago, renhoef said:
Unfortunately KJFK doesn't have displaced threshold feature I guess.
Really? I have not tested that one out yet, but obviously KJFK has several displaced thresholds. VIc, can you confirm it KJFK's displaced thresholds are intended to function realistically, or if not whether something planned for them?
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Interesting. I have encountered it a couple of times more, and so far ( in my case) it still seems to be associated with issuing multiple incorrect commands in a row (usually it seems to take 4-5 such errors). As you mentioned issues with the multi monitor windows, I will also note that two times when starting the game I would send a window to my second monitor, and the window would momentarily appear there and then disappear (this has nothing to do with the above issue that I know of, but I thought I would mention it since it sounds a little like what you experienced).
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8 hours ago, 707FAN said:
Well done to the developers of 3D. I have held off getting it until the Pro version was released. I read the forum posts almost everyday.
Having now got pro I have found a couple of little problems that might be able to be fixed or maybe not so easy.
1. I am having problems getting speech recognition to work reliably, but I am working on it. During the period where the speech does not work, I found that the mouse commands for taxi instructions does not seem to work on the second GND screen. To get it to work it seems that you need to open the GND screen on the main screen and click on this to assign taxiways. It would be nice to be able to assign taxiways on the second screen.
2. What is the little + sign on the gnd screen for. It does not seem to do anything.
In all, a great job has been done on this program.
Kev M
I have not had any trouble mouse selecting aircraft on a second monitor. Must be something specific to your system/installation.
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19 minutes ago, simon08 said:
I can hear thepilots on my external mic, just can't get my commands heard.
How can you "hear" anything on a mic? A mic is supposed to hear you ;-)
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What can I say? The traffic in LA is crazy :-)
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In that case it is not just you. Vic acknowledged the reports in another post that he will look into it on Monday.
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Not sure if this it s fluke, but voice recognition stopped part way through a session at KJFK today. Was working fine for about 10 minutes, and then suddenly it would no longer accept any voice commands (button commands still worked). After shutting down and restarting the sim everything was normal. Just before this happened, I had made several incorrect transmissions while trying to recall how to phrase a complex taxi instruction, and I wonder if it to be expected that several mistakes in a row could cause something like this, or perhaps if there is a trick to unlocking the system without restarting? Has anyone else experienced this? As I said, it might just be a fluke.
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Agreed on all fronts. EGLL would definitely be great, though I can understand the hesitation at adding yet another field with a parallel layout right away. Either EHAM (or similarly KORD) would make for some greater contrast, as would KSFO. IMHO
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This has been reported at KSAN. Are you seeing this at other airports as well?
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For RT, be sure that you installed with the Pro exe (2 .exe files are provided.
For RC Be sure that you pointed the installer to your Pro installation, by default it will point to the location of the location of the standard version. Should look something like this: FeelThere/Tower3DPro/Extensions/Airplanes
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Perhaps a shortcut was not created during installation. Just go to the FeelThere folder, and find the .exe for Pro and create a shortcut for your desktop (right click the exe and select send to desktop.
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4 hours ago, futureboy said:
-The selected start time in the Main Menu now coincides with the start time in the game.
RickyJGood catch! I had not picked up on that yet, but you are absolutely right :-)
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4 hours ago, crbascott said:
ATL will be cool, but how does one person realistically control at this airport? Off-peak hours, modified schedule, reduced traffic density?
The same thing could be said about KLAX and KJFK, but I have not heard many complaining. Moreover, as you mentioned, the traffic volume can easily be manged to taste, either through the percentage slider in settings, or by modding. In reality Tower3D(Pro) is both a sim and a game, and can easily serve the purposes of both (either separately or simultaneously). As such we need every airport we can get as each one has a unique runway/taxiway/terminal layout, and its own unique challenges.
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The intensity of the lights can be increased by selecting a higher bloom level in the advanced graphics settings
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Also noticed that planes exiting the runway still block the parallel taxiway. Its like they need to increase the distance between the runway and taxiway by another 10 feet.or so.
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I saw something similar as well, but have not yet spent much time at KSAN. At times, it did look kind of like that, as though the planes were dragging along the ground without landing gear, but they are so far away from the tower that it seemed hard to tell for sure. LIke I said, I only looked at that airport for a few minutes. I will try to have another look and see if I see it again, and maybe take some screenies.
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Has anyone else noticed that the DBRITE looks a little weird after moving it to the second monitor? When It comes up on the primary monitor, it is revy clear and readable, but after I move it to the 2nd monitor, the rings look a bit pixilated and the data tags become too small to read easily.