Self-authorisation on ATC

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I was practicing ATC operation on Ground+Tower at LAX on training server, and pilots seem to clear themselves for things such as pushback and takeoff by themselves without me doing anything… does anyone know what’s going on? Happy to send replay if wanted. Thanks!

On the Training Servers, unfortunately you can’t be sure that pilots will follow instructions. Those who fly on the TS are players without access to the Expert Server.
Unfortunately there’s not a whole lot to do about pilots on the Training Server, deep breaths and patience can help.

If you like to control airports, I’d suggest you check out IFATC, which you can join if/when you meet the requirements, so you can control better behaved pilots on the Expert Server

Happy controlling!

It’s not that they don’t follow instructions… they would say stuff like “Cleared for takeoff, Runway 25L, NXXXXX” without me actually telling them that they are cleared for takeoff? (hope you get what I mean)


Here’s a screenshot, there are 3 incidences here boxed in red

That is mostly likely because you are observing the frequency, not controlling it!

There is, more than likely, someone already on that frequency! The boxes will be green when you try to spawn if so.

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Hi, You’ll naturally find a mix of users on TS. Among those doing random things, there are those also taking practice more seriously and willing to follow instructions.

If you focus on the good of TS and remember why you are there, you’ll be able to ignore those not following instructions as you think they should.

The big picture for the above is:

The main purpose of TS is to provide a learning environment step-up from CS towards ES.

CS is all about staying in the air and not making uncontrolled contract with the ground.

TS adds the next step by putting in speed restriction penalties, and opening up the full ATC environment to practice.

ES adds trained ATC and being able to follow ATC instructions and rules.

Thank you, I believe this is what happened!

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