Andrew Heath

So on VATSIM, if you are part of VATUK, you can control these fields?

No we are gonna go by countries at first.

You mean from VATSIM -> POSCON? Yes, we will have a rating transfer available for a limited time (6 to 12 months) after release.

Hi Rich, and welcome. I moved your topic to the POSCON forum. There are two forums here... one for AirDailyX (ADX) which is a flight simulation news organization that POSCON LLC owns and then there is a general discussion for the POSCON Network project. To answer your question... yes, we are definitely looking to expand to other countries and regions. We have started exploring this expansion using the "clubs" feature found here: https://forums.poscon.net/clubs/ Basically users nominate their favorite air traffic division and we will create it. If the division can provide all of the following requirements: active users, SOPs, and sector data, we will release it during beta testing. If the division does not achieve those three things, then we will have to delay its release until after beta. Hope that answers your question!

What I am about to say is by no means set in stone. We were thinking that we would group countries by similar training regimes. So for example, if we could use 85% or more of the generic training material from one country in another country, then those two countries would effectively fall under the same division. If the two countries' procedures, methods, phraseology, etc. were significantly different, then we would group them in a different division. I do like the idea of these FABs though as well. We are going to continue to explore the topic and, as always, opinions are welcome.

@Brodie Murdoch You are gonna have to choose one. One user = one nomination.

There has been no talk about eliminating the ability to use plug-ins. Voice is being pulled from the ATC client and being added to a completely new client. This will allow users to use voice on a separate machine or maybe mobile device! vStrips is a plug-in correct? If so, then it should be compatible.

Just to clarify a few things... Uploaded files are visible to all members, so that people know what has been uploaded for a certain division. However... Files are NOT downloadable by anyone but POSCON staff to prevent unwanted distribution. If you want a more secure upload, we can arrange the files to not be visible... just email [email protected] Thanks!

We are introducing a way for people who want to help contribute to the development of POSCON to do so... by crowdsourcing data. In order to get a division up and running, we need three things: people, SOPs, and sector data. If you have the ability to contribute either of the latter two, you can now do so by submitting files to our file repository. Please note, that you must OWN the file or have PERMISSION to submit the file in order to contribute it to POSCON. If you do not own the file or do not have permission to submit it, DO NOT SUBMIT THE FILE! I have created only two categories, but will start to create more categories/sub-categories as we populate the repository. You can access the repository here: https://forums.poscon.net/files/ Thanks!

Euroscope is the ATC client. Gergely is porting a version of Euroscope over to POSCON to use. At the moment, there are two user-interfaces planned: one for US-controllers with US functionality and another for Europeans with European functionality. Any additional user-interfaces are not yet planned, but we would be more than happy to research them if enough interest (and data) is received.

There will be UIs for both US-based radars AND European-based radars. We can include more UIs for different areas, but we don't have an abundant amount of information on other scopes. If you are looking for something specific, it will help if you could gather that information and send it to us.

Nothing on the front-end to my knowledge. Lots of work on the back-end!

Any supervisor function that can be automated, is being automated. However, there are some things that simply cannot be automated, and for those issues we have devised all new tools for supervisors. Our goal is to operate with a skeleton crew as much as possible. POSCON will have a new role though that will require a lot of work. We envision the people who enjoyed being SUPs on VATSIM/IVAO, will most likely apply for this new role. This new role is called "moderator" and it will have a whole new set of responsibilities attached with it. I will not go into great detail about it, but expect to learn more about it when beta is released.

I think I said it to you in the past, but you are like a mind-reader! :-D

Hijacking would be the only squawk code we will NOT allow. Divisions will not control airline scheduling, that will be network level and handled by an automated system. We will be providing weather injections, especially for winds aloft. We are actually still working out how to make sure all the weather engines play "nice" with each other though.

As mentioned in other topics, our training system is rather unique and I don't want to get into major details about it yet. It will separate us from other networks. We are not at the point where we are selecting divisional staff (and won't be for a while). Quite frankly, we are doing our very best to eliminate bureaucracy from the network so I don't expect there to be many position available when we do start to promote people. Alpha testing will not be open. We are currently not soliciting for alpha testers.

For ATC, ratings will transfer for an undetermined period of time after initial release. When that time is up, then we will no longer offer the rating transfer. We may or may not offer this for the pilot ratings as well.

Here is an answer from a friend who has flown the Airbus A319/A320/A321 for a number of years:

AJ KPHL My favorite FS experience is to fly online in a group flight with @Nico, but instead of flying a commercial airliner, fly fast jets when all he can fly is a clunky 737. It annoys him a lot ROFL!

I agree with most everything said here. Just something to note though... a PDC can still be sent to a General Aviation aircraft. The difference is many GA guys don't pick up their PDC because they don't have the datalink capabilities in their aircraft. However, if they were to go to a computer terminal in say, the FBO, and their company had access to this type of information, they could probably receive a PDC.

This is a great suggestion, and I agree with you. I have passed it on to the developers.