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Here’s some helpful posts on interacting with ATC that might be useful

Common Expert Server Mistakes And How To Fix Them

Hello everyone! Many of you may already know me, but if not, I’m Jinco, ATC Trainer and Appeals Team member. Throughout the years I’ve been part of IFATC, I was able to notice many big and small details that live in the Expert Server skies. In this server, pilots should be professional, however, we as IFATC controllers often see inappropriate behaviour that should take place on the Casual Server only. I see already multiple topics similar to mine, but they are quite old and I wanted to let the …

Some pointers re. Ground ATC instructions!

Hey folks! I was controlling ground at Sacramento during the Flash Flight this evening and there were a few repeating nuisances and errors from an ATC perspective that I thought I would bring up here! 1. Pushback Directions: This is a new feature introduced in 24.4 and its clear that many pilots don’t understand the pushback directional commands correctly - see the image below - which demonstrates pushback paths from the gate shown in each direction: [IMG_0381] To explain the image a bit m…

How to request your departure

Hello folks… More and more controlling on the expert server shows me that lots of people won’t request / execute departures correctly… So here is a little guide… Departure to the…: Means that you are leaving the airport and its airspace. Select the general direction (North South Est West) of your flight and report. Remaining in the pattern: Means that you will stay and play at the airport doing patterns. Select this when … you want to stay and play. Don’t use this one when departing pleaaase…

What you should do when you contact Center

This is what Center expects from you when you contact them. This assumes that you are flying IFR, as almost all pilots do in Infinite Flight. If you are departing and have a flight plan: Upon contact, “Check-In.” ATC will respond with “Radar Contact.” If you Check-In you do not need to request Flight Following. Center may or may not assign an altitude for you to climb to. Pay attention to the altitude because we assign them to help deconflict you from other surrounding aircraft. If Center ass…