ATP - Air Transport Pilot

[bigvern]

Been reading about this in an (old) flight sim book. Just wondered if it's still kicking about (and XP compatible) and if it was/is any good?

[peterholton]

Doubt if it's XP compatible, my copy's on 5 1/4" floppies!

Was good for its age though: very immersive, although it could be a bit pedantic about if you'd flown past VOR beacons correctly.

IIRC it was made by some of the Flight Simulator people who left when MS bought them out?


Peter

[CaldRail]

The atc procedures were good, but like programs of this age, required some imagination with the graphics. Flight models were a bit...ummm... odd. Back then I loved it but I doubt it would hold my interest for more than 20 minutes these days.

I give it..

[bigvern]

Yes I guess FS9 probably does everything and more that ATP would do. Probably the same age then as the old Amiga Airbus programmes.

[CaldRail]

ATP had better air traffic control than FS2004. Seriously. Microsofts version has hilariously funny bugs sometimes. The best one was a DH Comet re-enactment. Somewhere over the Black Sea I was still being asked to contact an RAF approach frequency. Help Ribs hurting...

[bigvern]

Several times FS9 ATC has routed me into a mountain and once cleared me to land at the same time another aircraft was taking off in the opposite direction on the same runway. Now that's a near miss!

However it's better than no ATC at all, let's hope the next version of FS gets even better - unfortunately it does rather show up what was missing in MSTS, reasonably realistic dynamic despatching and routing.

[martinhodgson]

and let us not forget, the MSFS classic - a Cessna Skylane on approach at LHR. With a 747-400 and a 777 screaming up behind it.

[CaldRail]

Or being asked to change frequency sixteen times whilst on a ten mile approach to LAX

Come on LAX Tower, can't you read your e-mails some other time?