ATC Communication

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art lippel (effieveda) First Officer
Joined: Dec 13, 2006 Posts: 332 Location: North Hollywood, California
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Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:35 pm

Does anyone out there know of a way to talk to the tower to which your comm one radio is tuned, without having to await it's appearence on the ATC's " Airport Nearer/Further to You List"? I would like to make contact before I get within nine miles of the airport, when the tower of interest finally shows up on the list. It really becomes a problem when there are many little airports and air strips located nearby. I seem to find myself spending alot of time searching through the list looking for my destination airport. Sometimes it's a real pain in the Ass!!!

Thanks in advance ... Art

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Bob (Traches) First Officer
Joined: Jan 31, 2008 Posts: 412 Location: Louisville, KY, USA
Answered
Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:12 pm

I don't use the default FSX ATC, but my advice would be to pull up the airport in the map (or search an online nav database) and dial in the frequency manually.

Edit: Wait, i didn't read as carefully as I should have. You saying that you can't talk to the tower even when you have the tower freq tuned in your comm 1 radio? The default ATC sucks harder than I thought...

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art lippel (effieveda) First Officer
Joined: Dec 13, 2006 Posts: 332 Location: North Hollywood, California
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Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:09 pm

That's right Traches, you can be, say, thirty miles from your destination, set its' frequency on your comm one radio, and then you're stuck. As far as I know, there is no way to talk to the tower until it shows up on the ATC window. I was hoping that someone knew of an alternate method, or possibly an add-on that would get around that problem. 😞

Later ... Art

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Bob (Traches) First Officer
Joined: Jan 31, 2008 Posts: 412 Location: Louisville, KY, USA
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:05 am

I use radar contact and love it, but that only covers IFR. Not sure about a good vfr ATC addon...

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