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Category Archives: Air Traffic Control
Screencast: Creating ATC Airport Flows in WorldEditor v1.2
I’ve just uploaded some new videos to the official X-Plane YouTube video channel. These videos are screencast tutorials for airport authors to help them understand the ATC Airport Flow feature in X-Plane v10. ATC Airport Flows are essentially a set … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, Screencasts
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Screencast: Creating ATC Taxi Networks in WorldEditor v1.2
Well as I promised (11 months ago), here’s a tutorial on making ATC Taxi Networks in WorldEditor v1.2. Hopefully this clears up some misunderstandings about how the pieces of the system work and how they’re meant to be used. Perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, Screencasts
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New X-Plane Beta, new WED Developer Preview
Announcements on the plethora of betas that went up this weekend. Edit: beta 5 is temporarily offline while we resolve a missing scenery texture. So you’ll get beta 4 if you update. X-Plane 10.04 beta 5 is now available. Release … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, Development, News, Scenery, Tools
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ATC Taxi Layouts
One of the major components of the new ATC system in X-Plane v10 are the taxi layouts. We sometimes internally refer to this as the “taxi network” because what it’s REALLY comprised of is a network of taxi segments attached … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, Development
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Notes about the ATC system
Many of you have taken the time to tinker around with the new ATC system. Many of you have had a good experience, others have found yourselves frustrated for various reasons. My goal here is to try and explain what … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, Development
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ATC: Description of a System Pt 1
I’ve always been into photography as just one of my many expensive hobbies. A very respected Photographer Jerry Ghionis always says “You don’t have to be the best, you just have to be better than last week.” I’ve tried to … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control
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Mommy where do baby airplanes come from?
“Well little Johnny, when a KC-10 and a 747 love each other very much…” On a more serious (kinda) note, this is a shot of what happens when ATC fails at spacing its aircraft properly. These two planes flew all … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, Blooper Reel
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ATC And Airports – Where Does All of the Data Go?
This post is going to be a bit of a brain dump: I will explain where the various new types of data go for the new airports and ATC system. First: everything lives in scenery packs. Since X-Plane 9, every … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, File Formats, Scenery
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New Scenery Tools: WorldEditor 1.1 Beta 3
Edit: the original post listed the version as 2.0 – the new WED beta is 1.1, MeshTool is 2.0, and my brain doesn’t work in this heat. More scenery tools: I have posted a new beta for WorldEditor 1.1: WED … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, Development, Scenery, Tools
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Some ATC Bloopers…(Free Willy!)
In testing some ATC stuff today, I was curious why I saw smoke coming from the water on the left side of the runway. As I got closer, I found a KC-10 rising from the ground like a mighty Phoenix….struggling … Continue reading
Posted in Air Traffic Control, Blooper Reel
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