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Why I don\'t fly online?
EHM-2097 Andrei:
I *mostly* disagree with Matt...
Although I had some not-so-funny episodes with ATC on IVAO, the controlled airspace is what makes all the fun of flying online. Thus, if I plan to fly online and there is no ATC, I am rather disappointed.
However, this fun comes with a cost, online flying requires a lot more preparation, and this (time) is the main reason I didn't fly online much in the last 6 months.
Another reason would be that it requires a relatively long period of continuous presence in front of the PC, which is usually difficult to schedule in the evenings after work.
A final reason, in my case, is that while time is a rather scarce resource I preferred to spend my online time as ATC rather than a pilot (and this is also one reason for not supporting the "pilots good, ATC bad" theory ;D ).
One more comment on the "waste of time getting all the clearances when I can just fly offline with more traffic offline!". I agree that such a situation looks boring, but this is the best way for people on both ends to learn the ropes. Especially as ATC, I could never learn to handle medium (not to say heavy) traffic if I had not the opportunity to handle low traffic first.
Andrei
EHM-1671 Ben:
I would like to fly online but I had a bad experience with a particular impatient EGLL controller and as such I'm pretty reluctant to return to the online network, at least when there's ATC online. If I learn my ATC-talk well... I can definitely see myself going back in the future :)
As for the "waste of time getting all the clearances when I can just fly offline with more traffic offline!", I disagree... for me the experience is about my own flying and the overall authenticity of my personal experience, not how many planes there are.
EHM-2101 Tarik:
None of the above opinions, since I've tried but I felt I must improve my flight skills more to be able to be good in online. Though I feel I'm quite good now, I could start again. But one problem, my headset got broken :(
Edit: Oh and btw, I think that the Air Traffic Controllers are the best thing about online flying. I have only seen nice and helpful ones :)
EHM-1883 Matt:
--- Quote ---Message original : EHM-1671 Ben
As for the "waste of time getting all the clearances when I can just fly offline with more traffic offline!", I disagree... for me the experience is about my own flying and the overall authenticity of my personal experience, not how many planes there are.
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What I meant was in my terms, I mainly fly online for the traffic, so if there isn't that much traffic sometimes I switch offline. Don't get me wrong though, I do fly online when there isn't much traffic because the FS ATC is much worse than real controllers!
EHM-2288 Glenn:
I fly online on Vatsim all the time. But I think sometimes that the ATC-controllers are taking their job a little bit to serious. I got two examples on how I think it should be, and how I think it shouldn't be.
1. When I started to fly on Vatsim, I got a xxx_APP on my first airport. With no other planes online from or to this airport, he really tried to be boss. Told me to taxi here and there to get to the runway. And I didn't have charts, so I got confused. Instead of helping me, he disconnected me, because I didn't understand. That's too bad. One plane in his controlled airspace, and he didn't help a newbie.
2.After a while online, I found out that LPPT controllers are really nice. Every time(except when many pilots online) I land on LPPT, I get the message, "taxi to stand of own choice". This is great, and you can also ask the controllers in Portugal everything.
This shows how different controllers is. Some thing it's real life, other takes it as it should be, amateur pilots who play a game:)
But if somebody who haven't been online yet, want to try it, just contact me, and come with me on a trip on Vatsim. Now I'm a experienced Vatsim pilot, and I can help you finding out what to say, and how to communicate with ATC's and other pilots:)
EDIT: And I have not been flying offline in a couple of years. You will never get it like in real life, but online gives you the most realism, and the most social way to fly
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