I was thinking that a flight planning mode option, available as a status would be helpful when spawning on a controlled airport. There are many times when I will spawn at the gate and I’m greeted by the ground controller to “say intentions” or simply the on guard warning before I can even make my flight plan. Now with the availability of weather METARS there is even more that I like to look at before requesting push back. The quick communication from the controller isn’t a problem for me, but I would like it if I could let them know that I acknowledge them but I’m just not ready to proceed yet. The “standby” message seems like the only appropriate response. Does anyone else think that having the optional ATC response message “creating flight plan”, or perhaps a labeled Flight Planning Mode that the controller could see would be useful? Looking forward to everyone else’s ideas or feedback.
The “standby” response is fine as it is.
When you’re parked in the gate, the controller shouldn’t be sending a "Say Intentions."That’s not proper controlling manner for the Expert Server. Make sure you’re flying on the right server if you expect proper ATC Controlling. If you’re at the gate and they send you an On Guard, then you’re not on the right frequency (Most likely had a spawn issue that put you on Unicom) Switch to the proper frequency and continue. There’s really no point for this anyways, since there are already commands that are more then capable enough to do the same thing, and be used in different situations as well.
This seems worthless in my opinion. If the controller is asking you for intentions when you spawn in, then you are doing something wrong.
Always blame the pilot… 🤔
In this case if it’s on expert, then yes. Because no expert ATC would do this. If they did they would be reported to ATC management staff sooner or later.
Humans =/= Absolutely Perfect.
I’m pretty surprised at these responses, then again I need to now mention that I’m always on the expert server. I have no official ATC training so I never saw these messages as being inappropriate. As far as being on the wrong frequency, I can’t help if the sim has me on anything but ground or unicom when I spawn in. I’ll start checking that first thing just in case. It’s always tough to hear your idea as being “worthless”, but I can appreciate if it’s not worth developing.
It is simple. Just when you spawn make sure to connect with Ground. If you lose your concentration when you are making your flight plan then you can turn the volume down.
Nice thinking, would like this.
I think this is pretty clear and common sense, in that a ground controller will leave a plane alone if spawned but not moving. Until you want something from me (i.e. pushback or taxi clearance) I don’t need to speak to you.
If the aircraft spawns and just starts pushing back or starts to taxi without contacting me first (yes I do control on TS1 ;)) then I will contact him/her.
Same here, always really annoys me when TS1 pilots do stuff without clearance and then you can’t report them. Had this happen loads when I had live; tell them to do a 360, they do nothing. Go around? You wish.
You did well in answering the stand by message, when ATC was not supposed to ask you for intentions when spawning and not yet moving.
I would appreciate to be able to recover my previously recorded FLT PLN. Sometimes somebody is spawning at my same stand while I am planning my flight. After a couple of minutes I get out to another stand, loosing all my flight data and have to restart all over again.
Blue skies