"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
> So in terms of people setting up servers, I would suspect that some
> servers would be managed more professionally than others. If a
> particluar server degenerates into a voip 'chat' room and the server
> maintainer doesn't care, then so be it. But I would assume that at
> least a few voip servers would be held to pretty rigorous standards and
> people abusing the airwaves or not taking the 'game' seriously could be
> booted off and sent to a less serious server.
John Wojnaroski wrote:
> To set up an ATC system requires a lot of work and a cadre of dedicated
> individuals. In the absence of such a system or standards to adhere to
> proper ATC phraseology and protocols, it will degenerate into a chat
> room. If people want to "blather" it might be best to use some other
> method or separate medium.
Well, I'm holding a so called "General Flight Radiotelephone Operator's
Certificate", which - at least in theory - entitles you to operate the
radio from the co-pilot's seat in an airliner. You might expect that I
know what I'm talking about when I call this "blather" :-)
I realize very well that we are at risk to see 'misuse' on such a voice
channel and I'd suggest to open such a channel to registered users only
- as other ATC simulation networks do as well. This doesn't prevent us
from offering an 'open' channel, similar to common air-to-air
frequencies, as an addition to other 'frequencies' where we expect
people to comply with the usual phraseology.
My long-term goal would be to erect a network of voice-communication
servers among several people around the world. I know that we don't
necessarily need voice communication just to transmit some ATC
instructions into sim cockpits but on the other hand I think that
without such a feature we'll never attract a single person willing to
provide 'life' ATC service to FlightGear users.
I not only consider this to be a thrilling idea, I happen to see in
real life that there are _lots_ of people on the world to run such
networks - it's just that they use the 'wrong' sim with proprietary
protocols ;-)
Cheers,
Martin.
--
Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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