- 01 led 2011, 16:16
#77453
Kdyz uz jsme se dnes tak pekne rozhovorili...
od podzimu pracuje Keith Smith na nove siti virtualniho letani, PilotEdge. Pro Vatsim znale popsal svou sit takto:
I have developed a new online flying network, built from the ground-up to be used as a serious training tool for student pilots, IFR students, and pilots looking to maintain their proficiency. Additionally, the network will cater to a subset of the VATSIM membership. By that, I am referring to pilots who take flying on the network relatively seriously, and are interested in improving their skills and adhering to ATC instructions and published procedures. This does _not_ mean that you have be an expert sim pilot, or a real world pilot to be welcome on the network. You simply need to be willing to try to fly your airplane as well as you can, and be willing to work with ATC when required to do so.
The network is similar to VATSIM, but corrects several of the fundamental issues that have prevented it from achieving widespread acceptance as a training tool by the wider r/w pilot community.
These issues include:
- inconsistent ATC presence,
- inconsistent ATC quality,
- inconsistent pilot quality
- requiring pilots to understand VATSIM\'s top/down ATC approach, rather than using r/w freqs
- high-latency, low-quality voice system
- lack of traffic density
- lack of a realistic range-limited voice CTAF for non-towered operations
It does this by:
- guaranteeing ATC presence during the network\'s operating hours (will be 12-16hrs a day, 7days/week)
- providing rigorous screening and training standards, the likes of which are not practical to implement on VATSIM
- requiring pilots to pay a monthly subscription fee ($15-20/mth) to have access to the network, which will, we hope, keep away those pilots who are just barely interested in flying on the network.
- providing a unique frequency management system that allows pilots to contact ATC using the published r/w frequencies (del,gnd,twr,app/dep,ctr), without having to understand which specific controllers are online at the time, and which roles they\'ll serve.
- using a modern-day, low-latency voice architecture that provides for near-instantaneous interactions with ATC
- only providing ATC support in a limited geographic area (norcal, socal initially), thereby \'squeezing\' a nation\'s/world\'s worth of traffic into the state of California. Additionally, the server has the ability to record flights with incredible fidelity (5 sim cycles per second), and play them back as \'drones\' with equal fidelity. We currently have 35-40 aircraft flying VFR around socal, 24/7, staying clear of civilian A/B/C/D airspace, for obvious reasons. The plan is to increase this by a factor of 3-4, providing a nearly constant level of background traffic that can be seen in the distance, be called out by ATC, or if pilots are interested, followed closely to see exactly how/where they fly. These are not \'AI\' aircraft...they were flights recorded by a human being, and as such, do not always land perfectly Smiley Some of the military flights that I recorded (involving formation exercises in various socal MOA\'s) do indeed come to a dramatic conclusion
- eliminating text based radio transmissions and providing a radio system that is range limited, based on altitude, just like the real world
The network will only support X-plane for now, but will eventually have support for FS9/X. It was originally going to be launched at a later date with support for both, but strong interest from the commercial sector prompted me to come to market sooner with support for X-plane only at first.
Additionally, we plan on running a events on a very frequent basis on the network, covering a wide variety of operations. VATSIM events, when they\'re organized correctly, provide a level of enjoyment not frequently seen during regular operations, and that\'s something I intend to carry over onto this network.
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Keith je mimojine zdatnym ATC v ZLAARTCC a pilotem California Airlines.
PilotEdge je v soucasne dobe v beta testovani. Vice na:
http://pilotedge.net/
http://pilotedge.net/page/beta
Zakladni ukazku najdete na youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO28-w2fPTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwfGvW-d6VI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5izjoobH4c
od podzimu pracuje Keith Smith na nove siti virtualniho letani, PilotEdge. Pro Vatsim znale popsal svou sit takto:
I have developed a new online flying network, built from the ground-up to be used as a serious training tool for student pilots, IFR students, and pilots looking to maintain their proficiency. Additionally, the network will cater to a subset of the VATSIM membership. By that, I am referring to pilots who take flying on the network relatively seriously, and are interested in improving their skills and adhering to ATC instructions and published procedures. This does _not_ mean that you have be an expert sim pilot, or a real world pilot to be welcome on the network. You simply need to be willing to try to fly your airplane as well as you can, and be willing to work with ATC when required to do so.
The network is similar to VATSIM, but corrects several of the fundamental issues that have prevented it from achieving widespread acceptance as a training tool by the wider r/w pilot community.
These issues include:
- inconsistent ATC presence,
- inconsistent ATC quality,
- inconsistent pilot quality
- requiring pilots to understand VATSIM\'s top/down ATC approach, rather than using r/w freqs
- high-latency, low-quality voice system
- lack of traffic density
- lack of a realistic range-limited voice CTAF for non-towered operations
It does this by:
- guaranteeing ATC presence during the network\'s operating hours (will be 12-16hrs a day, 7days/week)
- providing rigorous screening and training standards, the likes of which are not practical to implement on VATSIM
- requiring pilots to pay a monthly subscription fee ($15-20/mth) to have access to the network, which will, we hope, keep away those pilots who are just barely interested in flying on the network.
- providing a unique frequency management system that allows pilots to contact ATC using the published r/w frequencies (del,gnd,twr,app/dep,ctr), without having to understand which specific controllers are online at the time, and which roles they\'ll serve.
- using a modern-day, low-latency voice architecture that provides for near-instantaneous interactions with ATC
- only providing ATC support in a limited geographic area (norcal, socal initially), thereby \'squeezing\' a nation\'s/world\'s worth of traffic into the state of California. Additionally, the server has the ability to record flights with incredible fidelity (5 sim cycles per second), and play them back as \'drones\' with equal fidelity. We currently have 35-40 aircraft flying VFR around socal, 24/7, staying clear of civilian A/B/C/D airspace, for obvious reasons. The plan is to increase this by a factor of 3-4, providing a nearly constant level of background traffic that can be seen in the distance, be called out by ATC, or if pilots are interested, followed closely to see exactly how/where they fly. These are not \'AI\' aircraft...they were flights recorded by a human being, and as such, do not always land perfectly Smiley Some of the military flights that I recorded (involving formation exercises in various socal MOA\'s) do indeed come to a dramatic conclusion
- eliminating text based radio transmissions and providing a radio system that is range limited, based on altitude, just like the real world
The network will only support X-plane for now, but will eventually have support for FS9/X. It was originally going to be launched at a later date with support for both, but strong interest from the commercial sector prompted me to come to market sooner with support for X-plane only at first.
Additionally, we plan on running a events on a very frequent basis on the network, covering a wide variety of operations. VATSIM events, when they\'re organized correctly, provide a level of enjoyment not frequently seen during regular operations, and that\'s something I intend to carry over onto this network.
---
Keith je mimojine zdatnym ATC v ZLAARTCC a pilotem California Airlines.
PilotEdge je v soucasne dobe v beta testovani. Vice na:
http://pilotedge.net/
http://pilotedge.net/page/beta
Zakladni ukazku najdete na youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO28-w2fPTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwfGvW-d6VI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5izjoobH4c
Keep 'Em Flying!
