r/VATSIM

Over the past few days, I’ve been looking around to see if I can find a microphone with a push-to-talk button for my ATC sessions. I quickly realized that there aren’t any such microphones that aren’t extremely expensive. So I started looking for individual push-to-talk buttons—not just an external numpad, but an actual PTT button.

Does anyone know of a product they can recommend?

Hello everyone. I've been flying on vatsim for quite a long time now and have enjoyed every bit of it. I wanted to know what the process is to become a controller on the network. There's a lot of different sources online with a lot of different kind of information so I wanted to ask here on the sub

How do I apply for the position of a controller?

Will I only be able to become a controller in the region that I live in or can I become a controller in other regions as well?

Do I get to decide what controller I want to become (tower/app/ground/etc) or is that decided based on vacancy?

Dear fellow pilots,

Although I love this community for real and I'm having a blast (almost) every time. I want to say one thing. When you're on unicom and flying into an uncontrolled airport, please, and I'm begging you, talk! Or at least use text! I don't want to keep checking Vatsim Radar to guess what you might do or to see your flightplan. I got my own plane to figure out and configure. I don't want to be the one flying into you or having to go around because you never stated your intentions or said in what stage on the approach you were. Don't overshare, but please tell people what you're doing.

Sincerely,

A slightly annoyed pilot

I'm a content creator that's newish to Flight Sim (not new to content creation) and a lot have recommended VATSIM as something that would up my immersion and worth looking at, once I'm a bit more experienced with flying. I don't plan on joining straight away.

My only question is that it seems to be a requirement to use your real name, but wondering how strictly this is enforced? I'm a trans woman and for various security/safety reasons, most content creators especially from minorities like to keep their real life identity private.

iRacing and other sim racing games have similar rules, but have all let me use my online alias, Annie Krevice. My legal first name is Annie but I need to keep my surname private. Would this be okay?

I’m fairly new to the VATSIM network, and this is a genuine question rather than a rant.

I departed from YBBN with ATC online about 7 hours ago. A couple of hours after departure, ATC went offline, so I continued on advisory. I was regularly checking whether any enroute ATC came online or whether I was entering any active airspace, but there did not appear to be anyone online.

About 30 minutes ago, I stepped away to use the bathroom for around 15–20 minutes. During that time, Singapore CTR tried to contact me at 07:50z, a supervisor was contacted via wallop, the supervisor messaged me at 08:05z, and I was suspended for 24 hours at 08:11z.

I’m trying to understand what I could have done differently to avoid this situation. Should I have sent a message on advisory saying I would be away for about 15 minutes, or should I have disconnected before stepping away? I may be mistaken, but I thought being away for up to 30 minutes was allowed, provided the aircraft was not left unattended for longer than that.

I’d appreciate any clarification or advice, as I want to make sure I handle this correctly in the future.

I sometimes enjoy starting a flight on VATSIM, and getting some work done while in cruise. What are the rules/etiquette regarding requesting the center controller to send direct/SELCAL messages? Ideally I would like to turn down the radio volume to avoid interrupting my focus every 10 seconds trying to decipher whether a call is addressed to me.

Of course I understand I can simply disconnect and reconnect when getting closer to my destination, which is what I've been doing, but being able to stay connected to the network would be a nice plus.

I once was flying military aircraft that I would have needed to get approved beforehand. I then got an email that a supervisor has disconnected me from the network. My question now is if that’s considered a "serious disciplinary history“. Neither was I suspended or banned.

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As the title says, when I’m connecting to Vatsim with Xpilot, the ATC voice is extremely quiet and I can barely hear the ATC. I tried to lower the game volume but still ATC was barely hearable.

In audio section in Xpilot, there is something called Com 1 and Com 2. I changed both of them to max but unfortunately didn’t help.

Does anyone have a write up on how to use this mod correctly. Seems like a very cool mod to use, the description gives a great example of its use. Coming into an airport on vatsim, no traffic on the ground empty gates. Hate that feeling too lol

Hi All,

I was flying into Dresde the other day. There was tower coverage, but not Approach. I coordinated with a LH fligth in advisory freq. so we managed to arrive with enough separation. When I was already on final I see some lights. An aircraft was just cutting into the glideslope. It was not close enough to trigger a TCAS warning, but it was certainly close.

Looking at the STAR I can say for certain that he just cut the line. No STAR would turn to final so close to the runway.

Anyway, Tower asked me to go around. Which was ok. After all, reacting to unexpected event is part of the fun. However, I was a bit surprised that Tower did not told him off at all, or ask him ot go arround directly.

So I was wondering, what is the "by the book" VATSIM procedure in this case?

Thank you to all responding!

Guys anyone tell me beat free charts to use while in vatsim

I just finished the work on my (almost) full fledged flight simulator. And a friend encouraged me to fly with VATSIM. So after completing the course and all, I started flying with all of you a few times.

I only do VFR for the moment, because I love flying GA planes more than the big birds. I just finished a spontaneous night flight together with said friend. To close out the night we asked for some patterns and a spot landing on a towered, but not really frequented airport.

And the thing that stuck with me, and why I'm writing this post is the joy I noticed in all of the voices. My friends voice, my voice and most of all the controllers voice. A human being I never met before, but could speak with in a common language and understanding. This kind of joy of doing your best, being on top of it, without letting it stress you out. At least for me that's not something I find just around the next corner.

Thank you! All of you that make this past time possible. Especially the controllers, without you this all wouldn't be this much fun. I found something new that brings me real joy. And I really appreciate it.

Hi all!

Do we know why many historical aircraft are missing from FSLTL? Like I understand that you cannot have tons of historical liveries because it gets out of hand in terms of GB and in terms of work to maintain them, but like at least 1 blank model per aircraft? 1 blank 727? 1 blank BA146? MD80?

Specially since there are many modules out there to play historical aircraft.

It is not that fun to fly a historical flight on vatsim and that everyone sees you as an Embraer 190 if they do not own the exact same aircraft and vice versa.

I guess same thing applies to the VATSIM default models, although I use FSLTL ones for model matching.

Do you guys have any idea how to improve the immersion on this point?