~ VATSIM ~ Do any Argonath users fly VATSIM???

[Roadkill]

Hey, some of you may or may not know that I do not play on the Argonath RPG servers anymore, I just run Argonath Government Radio. Before I joined Argonath back in 2006 I used to be a flight simulation enthusiast but I lost interest. I've had FS2004 since it came out and the game is not realistic enough in terms of air traffic and ATC communications, FSX is even worse. I decided to download VATSIM (Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network), VATSIM is basically a virtual world where professional/non-professional pilots or ATC operators can join and create their own realistic communications and operations, the reason VATSIM is so realistic is because no noobs are allowed to sign up. If you wish to use VATSIM I suggest you do your homework and gain some flight experience.

If there are any Argonath users that have VATSIM then please post your call-sign or your pilot name. If you do not have VATSIM then I highly recommend you download it at http://www.vatsim.net/.

My call-sign is BAW0569 I just joined yesterday so I do not have many recorded flights.
In VATSIM I fly a BAW B777 just like the one below.


This is what I call SERIOUS roleplay...


If you are not interested in VATSIM then hopefully this topic will at least inspire you to be a better roleplayer in Argonath.

[Gimli]

Looks pretty cool, I'll try it when I'm back home.

[Kaltsu]

Looks pretty cool, I'll try it when I'm back home.

Sorry, but if you don't have any earlier aviation experience it's just not gonna be as simple as "Oh, well I'll give it a try". In the skies of VATSIM you really need to know what to do, which means you are required to spend time on studying all the procedures and methods to be used. The same procedures are used in real aviation so maybe that gives you some image of the challenge you have infront of you.

Anyway, if you still are interested in testing it out after all this scary text, please be my guest!

:ps: I do not fly in VATSIM regularly at the moment, but whenever I do, I prerfer using a high quality and super realistic add-on aircraft, such as the Level-D 767 (http://www.leveldsim.com). I keep changing my callsign depending on the flight/operator, so I don't have a regular one.

[Cross]

Man i am prob to stupid for this game, how does it work at the first place? what to download?
Man i swear i will crash the first 5min i fly (if i can even get in the sky).

[adam_stevens]

I used to play lock on and it took me like half an hour to take off plane lol... ever since i've decided not to play fly simulators unless i buy a proper joystick ;p

[TruthSvensson]

I'd like to try but,is there any planes like rustlers or just big planes like boing *insertnumberhere* ? Because i am not that good at flying big planes I can fly but cant land actually 

[tiderman]

Nice, Imma rp a kamikaze-terrorist!

[Roadkill]

Man i am prob to stupid for this game, how does it work at the first place? what to download?
Man i swear i will crash the first 5min i fly (if i can even get in the sky).

This isn't a goofy add on like SA:MP, VC:MP, MTA...etc this is an absolutely stable add on for an absolutely stable game. The game will not crash, your computer may crash if it is terrible but I have never crashed/lagged using VATSIM or even heard of people crashing.

Study hard at http://www.vatsim.net/prc/ and have a good first flight.

[tiderman]

This isn't a goofy add on like SA:MP, VC:MP, MTA...etc this is an absolutely stable add on for an absolutely stable game. The game will not crash, your computer may crash if it is terrible but I have never crashed/lagged using VATSIM or even heard of people crashing.

Though I think he ment crashing as in hitting the ground blowing up and killing 200 people on-board :roll:

[Roadkill]

Though I think he ment crashing as in hitting the ground blowing up and killing 200 people on-board :roll:

Well being able to fly properly comes with experience and experience isn't something hard to achieve.

[Zun_Callison]

Do i need Microsoft Flight Simulator? :O

[polopolo]

Do i need Microsoft Flight Simulator? :O

yes


I am an known pilot at IVAO. Maby I will ever take an look at VATSIM, but.. first I need to fix from this too terribly PC, I mean, I need to tweak my Flight Simulator AGAIN!
See you all later in the sky's!

Regards,
Captain Polopolo, Netherline 005!
Controller 1 rating, and 925 hours, 51 minutes, TOTAL time logged in IVAO.

[Cross]

Though I think he ment crashing as in hitting the ground blowing up and killing 200 people on-board :roll:

Hahaha, yeah kinda like that, love how Trojan talks about that the software won't crash 

[Roadkill]

Hahaha, yeah kinda like that, love how Trojan talks about that the software won't crash 

Well that is what I thought you were talking about seeing as this topic is about the software.

[Kaltsu]

Just to clarify, VATSIM itself is not anykind of software but a massive community and network. However, you can use different kind of piece of software to get connected to the VATSIM network.

For pilots:
- SquawkBox (for FS2002/FS2004/FSX)
- FSInn (for FS2002/FS2004/FSX)
- XSquawkBox (for X-Plane)

For Air Traffic Controllers:
- ASRC
- VRC
- EuroScope

Please note that you don't need any flight simulator software to work as an air traffic controller.