Air Traffic Control Simulators

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed May 11, 2016 2:28 pm

I did a brief survey of eight different ATC sims over at Caltrops. If the genre interests you, which it definitely does not, please enjoy:

http://www.caltrops.com/pointy.php?acti ... pid=178628

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed May 11, 2016 7:39 pm

Peripherally related, I recently purchased an app called LiveATC that streams ATC broadcasts from all over the world. If you like listening to that sort of thing, it's kind of relaxing to leave streaming during the work day.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed May 11, 2016 7:50 pm

I listen to LiveATC on an almost nightly basis.

What you wanna do is, also get the "FlightRadar24" app, set it to the same location you're listening to on LiveATC, and watch the planes as they come in and out, and get vectored around by the controllers you're listening to.

Well, that's what you wanna do if you geek out to things like that. Which I suspect we both do.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu May 12, 2016 2:51 pm

Haha, that's awesome, I will definitely try that!

LiveATC, along with 5-0 Radio (same idea but for police/fire/emergency frequencies) were the nail in the coffin for my handheld scanner. I'm too far away to pick up the airport from my house now, and everything else fun is encrypted. Yet another one of those "had to be there" things.