"Jason Dempsey" writes: >Now, do messages ever get transmitted in the game? I've noticed that I can >get the weather and call signs of airports when flying near, but no messages >from the tower. Not as of yet anyway.
You can do basic, VFR, interaction with the tower when arriving by pressing the ' key (same one as MSFS) when about 5 - 10 miles out and selecting one of the menu options. You do of course need to be tuned in on one of the com radios (comm1 might work better in some situations). You can further complicate matters by enabling 'intelligent' AI traffic. (As distinct from the scripted AI models). preferences.xml currently contains: <ai-traffic> <enabled type="bool">false</enabled> <level type="int">1</level> </ai-traffic> Change it to true to enable AI GA traffic, and crank it up to 2 or 3 to get lots. (You can do this from the AI-ATC menu entry, but will then have to wait a bit longer for the traffic to appear). If you tune in to a towered airport, you should then hear (see!) the dialog, and if you communicate with the tower as well you may to asked to land following one of them, or to go around landing too close behind one. It's all a bit, erm, beta ;-), and has been known to crash the sim (hence the disablement by default). You won't see AI GA traffic at KSFO in order to avoid a clash with Dave/Durk's airliner models. I can't remember offhand if they're enabled at KOAK or KSJC, but KRHV, KLVK, KHWD and KSQL are all good places in the base package to see them. KHAF is untowered so none there. Have fun! Cheers - Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
