OnCourse Software

Hi,

I've noticed that the time of reaction between ATC and e.g. the AI traffic is quite long. There is a delay. Would it be possible to shorten the reaction time in future updates?

Thanks for any reply,

best regards,

Axel.

Hi Axel,

If you mean the time between AI traffic doing something and PFE responding to it then that is a very grey and difficult area. You see any delay could be for a number of reasons, in particular what other things PFE is doing... or perhaps one of your other addons that may be utilising FSUIPC. If I were to write a imple AI Traffic monitoring program then yes, I could attain what you are (I believe) asking for. However, AI traffic detecting/monitoring in PFE is just a small part of the functionality involved in the whole picture.

Perhaps if you could explain more precisely as to when and where you think we could improve things I will certainly consider it. Please remember to give details as to airport. ai traffic settings, time of (FS) day, what point of the flight you area in, what PFE was doing or had just completed, etc, etc.

The bottom left <Alt> key does the job! It saves hours of waiting at the holding point for an ATC reply. And on final approach pressing <Alt> will "ensure" you get clearance to land.
Vololiberista

Thanks Dave for your reply,

e.g. I mean the reaction time between ai traffic and PFE when waiting at a runway holding point and you watch / listen to the ai traffic and PFE. The AI (by default ai engine of course) is getting the clearance for take off and then some seconds later when the aircraft is already airborne PFE gives its "cleared for take off".

And another small idea I have for future updates: I have read in any post here, that PFE gives hand over to the tower frequency to the UI aircraft a certain distance from the runway. Maybe you can increase the distance so that we are handed over to tower earlier. I mean the traffic flow could be made faster by this. I just know this from real flying and ATC.


Thanks,

best regards,

Axel.

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The bottom left <Alt> key does the job! It saves hours of waiting at the holding point for an ATC reply. And on final approach pressing <Alt> will "ensure" you get clearance to land.

Well you've completely lost me Vololiberista!

Care to elaborate?

dmarch wrote:

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The bottom left <Alt> key does the job! It saves hours of waiting at the holding point for an ATC reply. And on final approach pressing <Alt> will "ensure" you get clearance to land.

Well you've completely lost me Vololiberista!

Care to elaborate?

Some of us experience very long delays between P2 making a call and ATC answering. Sometimes at busy airports it can be many minutes (which of course at EGLL would be somewhat unrealistic!). Pressing the left <Alt> key forces ATC to put down their mugs of tea and respond "immediately!". Perhaps you could investigate what is happening and incorporate it into the PFE programming.
Vololiberista

So when you use the ALT key PFE responds immediately? Is that what you're saying?

Next time you have such a problem and use the ALT key to speed things up please send me the debug log because I'd be very interested to see (A) why you're having to wait as you describe and (B) what on earth hitting the ALT key has to do with it.

When I experienced slow PFE response, I fixed it by installing PFE on a separate computer and running over WideFS. That cured all response problems. That means it was probably related to my sim computer performance (which is low end by today's standard).

Why the ALT key would do anything, I don't have a clue.

Vololiberista, are you running the simulation Full Screen? Do you have PFE on the same computer as your sim?

JET 1 wrote:

When I experienced slow PFE response, I fixed it by installing PFE on a separate computer and running over WideFS. That cured all response problems. That means it was probably related to my sim computer performance (which is low end by today's standard).

Why the ALT key would do anything, I don't have a clue.

Vololiberista, are you running the simulation Full Screen? Do you have PFE on the same computer as your sim?

I only have the one PC. Why the <Alt> key works is a mystery, but it does! An instant response every time!
Vololiberista

vololiberista wrote:

I only have the one PC. Why the <Alt> key works is a mystery, but it does! An instant response every time!
Vololiberista

Are you running the simulation in Full screen? If you are, pressing alt would bring up the menu bar and freeze the simulation.