ATC simulator?
 

Does anyone know of a good ATC simulator where I can practice vectoring? I remember an old game called TRACON but it was written in DOS.

Thx

I found this through these forums:

www.atc-sim.com

It's web based, you don't have to download it.

I remember playing TRACON in the middle nineties before I became an ATCO... you brought me back old memories!

Ahh TRACON. I never could do it - airmisses and crashes all day. However, an old buddy who was a 747 skipper was great at it. On the other hand I could land the 747 in FS but he had problems!

You'll never get a truly realistic simulator outside of professional stuff. For one thing you don't have colleagues sitting next to you to strangle when they tuck you up!

Check out London Control...

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I played on something which I think was TRACON (SoCal?) in the mid '90s. I recall we had no speakers on the PC I was using but every time someone 'spoke' it wouldn't accept a heading or level change until they finished, hence all departures ended up being held on the ground whilst I tried to get traffic on the multiple ILS' .
A better one was 'Heathrow' designed for the 'original' 48k Sinclair Spectrum in the early 80s; the software was written by Mike Male who was a Heathrow controller at the time (HD will remember him)
It must have been successful because he made enough money to buy himself a TB9 G-BIAB, but he didn't get to fly it much as Talkdownman tended to hog it.

Agree with Glamdring, London control is the best off the shelf sim.

I have very fond memories of "Heathrow" on the Speccy. I must've been about 11 or 12, played it for hours!

If anyone wants to relive nostalgia, I believe you can get a Speccy Emulator for Android smartphones, and I've seen 'Heathrow' on one!

I like London Control:
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Thanks everyone. There are so many flying sims out there I thought there would be a lot more ATC stuff too - especially for us that are interested.

I tried the ATC-SIM, which looks cool, but you got to remember a string of commands short cuts... and do aircraft really go fast like 250 on departure and do 140 when 12 miles final? seems not so real that way. I also thought the arc of turn would be different based on speed.

London Control looks better but seems pricey.

Becoming an online controller on IVAO or VATSIM might be an option as well; it's free and you get training, too.

Chevvron,

Wasn't that Mike Male? Could imagine Callier building a TB9 but writing software? :confused:

www.atcsimulator.com is a reasonably complicated sim.Mostly USA based but quite immersive I thought.If I remember rightly it scores you(and fires you if you mess up)

London Control is worth every penny.

chevvron is suffering from callsign confusion again. It's his age, you know...

Try Visual Vectoring.....

Thanks for the link Gonzo. I've just downloaded "Marvin" the Android Speccy emulator and I'm currently reliving my childhood.

i spent like 500hrs on London Control... good stuff:)