Andrew Heath

Codes are given to our testers to invite their friends and then later, those users can invite their friends. Its an attempt to get groups of people actively flying on the server.

@emas Yes, if you are a member of POSCON you can receive an invite code from any of our staff or testers (if they choose to give one to you). If you are at FSExpo and sign the attendance sheet, your name may be picked at random to be in the first phase.

@Tim S Tim you are of course on a watch list! ROFL Just kidding!

After a lot of thought and consideration, we have decided to add a throttled release plan to our roadmap which we are calling the "Invite-Only Beta" phase. This means that initially, POSCON will only be available to those individuals that have been given an invite code. This new managed plan allows us the flexibility to continue developing features while also rapidly responding to support issues. Roadmap to Release All times are subject to change! Release Phase Tester Description Operating Times ATC Coverage Number of Users NDA Required Timeline Closed Beta Testers are hand-picked by POSCON staff. 24/7 N/A 58 + Staff YES Currently Ongoing Invite-Only Beta Phase 1 Pilots: Require an invite code in order to participate. ATC: Hand-picked by POSCON staff. Schedule Limited Limited to areas selected by POSCON staff. 500-1000 NO Guaranteed by Q4 2019. Earlier release date is likely. Invite-Only Beta Phase 2 Pilots: Require an invite code in order to participate. ATC: Hand-picked by POSCON staff. Schedule Limited Limited to areas selected by POSCON staff. 1000-2000 NO Guaranteed by end of Q1 2020. Earlier release date is likely. Open Beta Pilots: Open ATC: Hand-picked by Division staff. 24/7 Limited to areas fully developed. Unlimited NO Guaranteed by Q2 2020. Release Everything open. 24/7 World Unlimited NO Approximately 1 year after Invite-Only Phase 1 release. Beta Details Who can participate? Users must possess a valid invite code in order to activate their account and become part of the beta. The following restrictions apply: Users must be at least 16 years of age or older. Users 13-15 years of age can participate only if POSCON has received hand-written parental consent. Users on any restricted or watch lists are prohibited from participating. How can you get an invite code? Initially, these codes will be distributed by our testing team and staff. We will also pick 50 people that stop by the FSExpo 2019 booth, and have registered for POSCON, to be part of the first Invite-Only beta. Winners will be emailed after FSExpo and receive a code when we release the first Invite-Only beta phase. Later, each person who is a member of the Invite-Beta will have an opportunity to invite their friends to the server. Will the Beta be open all the time, or will there be specific operating times? The POSCON Invite-Only Beta will not be open to the public 24 hours / 7 days a week; it will instead be open during specific operating times to ensure ATC and Moderator coverage as well as allow us to deploy changes without affecting user experience. As we become more comfortable with our progress and staffing, we will relax the schedule to include more operating times. Are the operating times fixed? No, the schedule will vary. On the 25th day of each month, POSCON will post an updated schedule to the public for the next month's operating times and featured ATC region. Will the Beta be "open world" or feature specific areas? It will be open world, but each month we will be focusing on a specific region in regards to ATC coverage. This does not mean that ATC will be restricted to controlling in the featured region of the month, it just means that we will ensure coverage in that region during the posted times. I want to be an ATC, can I sign up? No, ATC are hand-picked for all open beta phases. When will ATC open up to the public? ATC will open to the public when POSCON officially releases in 2020. Will ATC ratings transfer from legacy networks? Yes, a user's global rating will transfer from legacy networks for a period of 6 months after the official release of POSCON in 2020. Local certifications will be left up to the divisions and sub-divisions to decide whether they transfer or not. When will the Division Staff be selected and how will that work? POSCON will begin selecting Division staff the first few weeks after the Invite-Only beta release. Division staff will initially be appointed by POSCON staff, but later we plan to introduce a way for members to get involved in the selection process.

Hello and welcome to everyone interested in the Sri Lanka Division of POSCON! I have created this forum to explore the possibility of releasing a division for Sri Lanka during beta testing. The only way we will release with this division is if enough people show interest, so get all your friends to join this club and make sure that they stay active! If there is enough interest and discussion, we will devote our resources to creating the necessary infrastructure. We are going to need your help though with sector file construction and writing procedures! If you have any interest in helping us write this material, please email [email protected] පොසොන් ශ්රී ලංකා අංශය ගැන උනන්දුවක් දක්වන සෑම දෙනාටම සාදරයෙන් පිළිගන්න! බීටා පරීක්ෂාව තුලදී ශ්රී ලංකාව සඳහා බෙදීමක් නිකුත් කිරීමේ හැකියාව සොයා බැලීමට මෙම සංසදය මා විසින් නිර්මානය කර ඇත. මෙම අංශය සමඟ අප විසින් නිකුත් කරනු ලබන එකම ක්රමය නම්, ප්රමාණවත් තරම් ජනයා උනන්දුවක් දක්වන්නේ නම්, ඔබේ මිතුරන් මෙම සමාජයට එක් වීමට සහ ඔවුන් ක්රියාකාරී බවට වග බලා ගන්න! ප්රමාණවත් උනන්දුවක් සහ සාකච්ඡාවක් තිබේ නම්, අපට අවශ්ය යටිතල පහසුකම් නිර්මාණය කිරීම සඳහා අපගේ සම්පත් කැප කෙරේ. අපි අංශක ගොනු සාදා සහ ලිඛිත ක්රියාපටිපාටි සමග ඔබගේ උදව් අවශ්ය වනු ඇත! මෙම කරුණු ලිවීමට අපට උදව් කිරීමට ඔබ උනන්දුවක් දක්වන්නේ නම්, කරුණාකර [email protected] යවනු ලැබේ வணக்கம் மற்றும் POSCON இலங்கை பிரிவில் ஆர்வம் அனைவருக்கும் வரவேற்கிறேன்! பீட்டா சோதனையின்போது ஸ்ரீலங்காவுக்கு ஒரு பிரிவை வெளியிடுவதற்கான வாய்ப்பை ஆராய இந்த மன்றத்தை நான் உருவாக்கியுள்ளேன். இந்த பிரிவினருடன் நாம் வெளியிடும் ஒரே வழி, போதுமானவர்கள் ஆர்வம் காட்டினால், உங்கள் நண்பர்கள் அனைவரும் இந்த கிளப்பில் சேரவும், அவர்கள் செயலில் இருப்பதை உறுதிப்படுத்தவும் போதுமான வட்டி மற்றும் விவாதம் இருந்தால், தேவையான உள்கட்டமைப்புகளை உருவாக்க எங்கள் வளங்களை ஒதுக்க வேண்டும். துறையின் கோப்பு கட்டுமானம் மற்றும் எழுத்து நடைமுறைகளுடன் உங்கள் உதவி தேவைப்படலாம்! இந்தத் தகவலை எழுதுவதற்கு எங்களுக்கு எந்த ஆர்வமும் இருந்தால், தயவுசெய்து மின்னஞ்சல் [email protected]

Hi Reuben, Our client will offer everything vERAM has to offer with some additional features that vERAM couldn't simulate due to limitations in the VATSIM infrastructure. These additional features include, but are not limited to, auto handoff, conflict probing, weather, and SUA activation - to name a few.

@Marc Sauer We emailed you

@Nicola Altafini Not sure - it is widely used throughout the FS community for various map apps, so it wouldn't surprise me if it were being used for IVAO. If you edit OSM, you not only helping POSCON, you are also helping other programs as well.

Hello all! For those of you wishing to help POSCON, I finally have something worth-while to ask of you. I am sure most of you are familiar with OpenStreetMap (OSM): https://www.openstreetmap.org/ We will be using a version of this map for our "web viewer" and I am requesting that each of you take a look at your home airport(s) and make sure that the gates, tarmacs, taxiways, and runways are all up-to-date and have no visible errors. If you want your airport to look correct on the POSCON map, it is important that you make the necessary edits on OSM. Every few months, we will download a new version of OSM and launch it on our own private tile server - these updates will include any changes you made. In order to edit OSM, you need an account with them. Below, I have attached what I classify as a "visible error" at KJFK: I went ahead and fixed the errors at KJFK on OSM and here is the revised version:

@Sven Sappa Already in the Clubs section

@Francesco Villi Hi, there is no UI designed for Italy at this time. We are only designing the United States UI for version 1.

@Tim S That is correct.

@Redouane Red Thanks for the offer, but we are actually not planning on injecting any sort of weather into the simulator.

Yes, MacOS, sorry. Not a programmer and don't use Apple, except for iPad ?

@Divya Patel That is correct

Zoom functionality, like IVAC2

@Nicola Altafini Yes, but not by the end-user. Multi-platform - Windows and iOS Same as Euroscope Kind of. You will have preference sets to adjust your display brightness, text size, etc. but each position will have different maps available to them. Positions are selected through a main menu prior to starting the client. It is looking like we will be utilizing an XML map format, similar to vSTARS and vERAM, but don't hold us to it just yet. There will be conversion tools provided from SCT/SCT2 to the new format.

@Tim S Short answer, yes.

@Skyeler Kho

Hello and welcome to everyone interested in the Philippines Division of POSCON! I have created this forum to explore the possibility of releasing a division for the Philippines during beta testing. The only way we will release with this division is if enough people show interest, so get all your friends to join this club and make sure that they stay active! If there is enough interest and discussion, we will devote our resources to creating the necessary infrastructure. We are going to need your help though with sector file construction and writing procedures! If you have any interest in helping us write this material, please email [email protected] Kumusta at maligayang pagdating sa lahat ng interesado sa Pilipinas Division ng POSCON! Nilikha ko ang forum na ito upang tuklasin ang posibilidad na ilabas ang isang dibisyon para sa Pilipinas sa panahon ng beta testing. Ang tanging paraan na ilalabas namin sa dibisyong ito ay kung sapat na nagpapakita ng interes ang mga tao, kaya makuha ang lahat ng iyong mga kaibigan upang sumali sa club na ito at siguraduhing manatiling aktibo sila! Kung may sapat na interes at diskusyon, itatalaga namin ang aming mga mapagkukunan sa paglikha ng kinakailangang imprastraktura. Kakailanganin namin ang iyong tulong bagaman sa sektor ng pagbuo ng file at mga pamamaraan sa pagsusulat! Kung mayroon kang anumang interes sa pagtulong sa amin na isulat ang materyal na ito, mangyaring mag-email [email protected]

@Adrian Adrian

@Tien Chien An Did you write these manuals?

I think it will be ready at the beginning and if not, shortly after.

@Marco Miazzi

If the demand is strong enough, anything is possible. Not seeing the demand right now though.