User Guide

Simulation
Simulation
Contact Ground Control to receive permission to taxi, as
well as directions to the active runway.
Once you reach the active runway for take-off, you will
transition to Tower to receive permission to enter the active run-
way and take off. Once you have taken off, Tower will pass you
to Departure Control to vector out of the airport’s airspace safely.
Once out of the airport airspace, Departure Control will
have you contact Center to track and assist your flight enroute. If
you are travelling across large geographic distances, you may be
asked to tune to other Center controllers along the way. Once you
near your final destination, Center will hand you off to Approach
Control to begin your final descent and entry into the arrival air-
port’s airspace.
Approach Control will give you “vectors” for your final
approach, which are a series of heading changes to safely route you
into the traffic pattern and prepare you for landing. Once the active
runway is clear, and you are the next aircraft in line to land,
Approach Control will pass you to Tower for final clearance to land.
Once Tower is contacted, you will be given final clearance
and can make your approach. Once you land, you should clear
the active runway as soon as safely possible.
Once you are safely on the ground and at a full stop, you
will contact Ground Control to help guide you back to the termi-
nal area of the airport. Once you have reached your destination
and have engines off, you can contact Clearance Delivery to close
your flight plan.
ATC On/Off Toggle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shift + `
ATC Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `
ATC Response #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ATC Response #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
ATC Response #3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ATC Response #4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
ATC Response #5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
ATC Response #6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
ATC Response #7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ATC Response #8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
ATC Response #9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
ATC Response #10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
You may activate ATC at any time, regardless of whether you
created a flight plan or if you started the simulation from the Fly
Now view. To communicate with ATC, press the ATC key (`). You
will be prompted with a list of ATC services to communicate with.
If your COM radio is already tuned to a valid ATC service, Fly!
will bypass this selection window and proceed to your request.
Once you select the ATC service to communicate with, a
window will appear with the available requests or responses you
can make to ATC. If your COM radio was not already tuned to the
ATC service, it will be auto-tuned for you. Press the ‘1’ through ‘0’
key to select the request or response you wish to make. The ATC
system will react as appropriate, and will give you verbal instruc-
tions on how to proceed.
All ATC communications are echoed to a scrolling text dis-
play at the top of your screen. If you have multiple radios tuned
to multiple services, you will see a separate text display for each
ATC communication you receive. You can turn off the audio por-
tion of ATC communications through the Sound options dialog
(see p. 12)
Remember that your radio is your “life-line” to ATC. If you
tune your radio away from ATC, or turn off the COM radio audio
through the audio panel of the aircraft, you will be blissfully
unaware of any demands ATC is making of you. In real life, this
could result in serious fines or suspension of your license!
Fortunately in Fly! you can choose to ignore ATC if you wish – just
remember that there are other planes in the air that are assuming
you will follow ATC’s instructions.
The normal “steps” of participating with ATC are as follows:
Tune your COM radio to the ATIS frequency for the airport
you are departing. The ATIS frequency is shown on the sectional
map, and can also be obtained by double-clicking the airport in
the Vector Map window or by using the “Range Finder” feature
(see p. 52). ATIS is an automated weather observation system, and
you will be required to have this information before contacting
Clearance Delivery.
Contact Clearance Delivery. If you created a flight plan in
the Flight Planner, you will open your flight plan with Clearance
Delivery at this time. Clearance Delivery will also verify that you
have the latest ATIS information.
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