Celebrate and Commemorate IFATC’s Shift From a Weekly Schedule to Region Assignments - A Special Thank You!

[BennyBoy_Alpha]

THE HISTORY OF THE EXPERT SERVER ATC SCHEDULE

Lets wind the clock back over 3 years to where this famed system began…

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Shortly after Global was released 3 and a half years ago Tyler introduced the Expert Server ATC Schedule where the aim was to have a daily main hub accompained by a few surrounding airports, often having a daily theme such as an Airline or a specific aircraft.

You can see the very first ATC Schedule below (30 October - 5 November 2017):

Expert Server ATC Controlling Schedule • 30 Oct-5 Nov 17

This week we introduce a new schedule for the Infinite Flight Expert Server controllers. Our openings will be based on airline HUBs this week as we provide more opportunities to fly into steadily opened airports for a specific period. Below you will find the designated airline and airports that will be serviced for that day(s) of the week. Please take part, represent the airline of the day’s colors, and plan your routes to our manned airports. MONDAY AND TUESDAY: DELTA AIRLINES [IMG_5338] …

Since then we have been treated to a weekly recurring schedule integrated around the established Friday Night Flights system, with the occasional special schedule to acoomodate a new airline route or an update containing new scenery or new aircraft.

To begin with these schedule topic were open to public comment but they started to regularly contain complaints along the lines of “Region X / Airport XXXX is never featured/when will it be featured. Eventually Tyler had enough and since then the schedule topics have remained closed to public comment.

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But even though this system has been for the most part hugely succesful, 1278 days later - or 183 weeks, we are clearing the ATC schedule for takeoff and clearing to land the new ATC Region Assignment system which will see IFATC controllers stationed in regions around the world given pilots the freedom to fly whereever they want. See the new ATC Region Assignments topic below:

New ATC Region Assignments

Blog article by Tyler Shelton [ATC Region Assignments] Infinite Flight’s ATC (IFATC) team is a qualified group of controllers that provide air traffic services for the Expert Server, and if you regularly fly there you’ve likely checked the ATC Schedule before to plan your next flight! Coming in May 2021, Infinite Flight will launch the region assignment program, allowing controllers to select one of ten global regions around the world, control any airport within that regional boundary at any t…

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As we head into this new system, I think its time we give Tyler and the IFATC Team a massive thank you for all the work they have done on the ATC side of Infinite Flight so far and hope that this new system will cause IFATC to continue to flourish.

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THANK YOU TYLER AND THE IFATC TEAM

[Julien_Narayanasawmy]

I have been playing IF only for 4 months now but I wanna join you in giving a Big Thanks to IFATC Team and TYLER , they all had done an amazing work in helping IF players flying safely from wherever they are taking off to wherever they are landing. 👏👏👏

[Levet]

Thank you and congratulations to the entire IFATC Team for all the years of exceptional service! We can’t wait to take the Regional ATC assignments to the next level with Infinite Flight.