ATC

[Daniel 1027583]

Good day, just joined Poscon. Am a pilot and RL Capt for a big ME carrier, flyng since 1991. My goal is to do ATC, but am totally in the blind how to do this. Everything is setup for pilots. what do i do after the signup.

[Pete B]

Welcome Daniel. As I understand it, applications for ATC positions are currently closed so it may not be possible. If memory serves there is an announcement on the Discord server with the details.

[Maher Abaza]

Hello Daniel,

Happy to see you joined POSCON, welcome aboard!

As Pete mentioned above, ATC applications are temporarily on hold. In the meantime, you can get the notice once we open them again on our public Discord server https://discord.poscon.net.

[Daniel 1027583]

Understood, just filled in the application. Looking fwd. 

[Daniel 1027583]

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Edited August 31, 2021 by Daniel 1027583

[Maher Abaza]

The amount of applications is high, and they need to be processed manually to evaluate them currently. Please be patient until you receive the response via email.

[Daniel 1027583]

Some flights on the live map dont show a dep and arr, does that mean these guys dont have a fltpln? Is it allowed to not file a fltpln on Poscon? Im not talking about a vfr flight. 

[Maher Abaza]

If a flight on the map does not have a departure or arrival, it is likely that the pilot did not activate his flight plan, or as you mentioned, it could be because the pilot did not file a flight plan. For IFR flights, a flight plan is required on POSCON. But due to low possibility of ATC being online, some members choose to skip this step.

[Daniel 1027583]

Thanks Maher.

becoz the coverage of ATC is so low, they don’t even bother checking if there is any online. Hopefully the attitude of pilots will change.  We need to have a possibility to force these guys to come on to the freq, in my opinion. Or by a force act signal or via pm. 
 

again thanks for the explanation ??

Dan

[Maher Abaza]

It is early to judge this behaviour as "attitude" towards ATC presence. I think it's just a temporary phase while the network is still under development.

As for "forcing" pilots to contact you, if someone does not want to contact you they will simply ghost or disconnect. But there are ways to let pilots know that you want to contact them. ATC have a CPDLC functionality to send a message to any aircraft to contact them (provided that the aircraft is already connected via CPDLC). There is also Guard frequency (121.500) which pilots should be monitoring according to POSCON policies. And finally, there's another moderation tool that allows ATC to contact pilots on any frequency they're tuned to. Other than that, you cannot force change the frequency. The feedback system is used as a last resort to indicate that a pilot was unresponsive to any of the previously mentioned methods.

[Daniel 1027583]

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