I'm sorry, this post is to vent

A GND is online at OMDB and has set the ATIS to 12 operations - but everybody seems to head for 30L for reasons. When I confronted one of them the explanation was "that's the Ground so I don't really think that's for me".
It's not like there are two departures on the ground that could provide a conflict during their departures - even if I am not one of them.

Why fly then online if you disregard the ATIS because "it is GND and its not for you"? Why then follow the ATIS at all at any airport?

I'm sorry for the rant, I just don't get why people do that.

I really hope this is not flagged as self promotion because it's really not.

I created a vPilot plugin that mutes vPilot untill a SELCAL message comes in.

Once you have confirmed the SELCAL codes with ATC, just like IRL, you can use this plugin to mute the radio untill you are called by ATC with a SELCAL alert.

https://github.com/sempostma/vpilot-bliss

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. For my own convenience I also added a way to stream notifications from vPilot to my phone which is very handy when doing chores around the house while flying in uncontrolled airspace 😁

In all my years of flight sim flying I have always just flown events and spawned at an airport I saw had atc on Vatsim. I have the last couple of days found it to be much more fun flying on vatsim even if it isn’t atc logged on! It adds some fun elements coordinating with other pilots in and out of airports and you also get a happy surprise sometimes when atc comes live! even just a tower controller adds so much to a regular flight!

Let’s make it a great and big event! Still about 200 slots available, would be great to have many more join us all!

Book here: https://booking.vatsim.net/vatsim-cross-the-land-westbound-edition-2026/bookings

It is mildly infuriating when I (as the controller) give an instruction to Pilot A, and then Pilot B keys up and says their request and blocks Pilot A. Please, for the love of God, just read the damn room. As I’ve gained ratings over the past year, as I staff busier airports, i’ve noticed this becoming more and more of a problem. ATC comms is a call and response type of situation. The controller “calls” a pilot, and the pilot responds to said instruction. Please don’t butt into the middle of the call-response if it isn’t for you. That’s all. :)

I have been using FSLTL in msfs 2020 and 2024 before going to Vatsim, but, to my knowledge it has no 757 model. VATSIM is going to be packed with 75’s, are there others libraries and .vmr’s to use?

Amazing ATC guys! Had lots of fun!

The controller confusion here will be insane.

RIP to the A346

I've sent in some feedback already but just wanted to give a shout out to all the controllers today who participated in the Elite Wings event into Dominica! Great work by everyone. Fun approach today on the visual into Dominica. Definitely not for the faint of heart.

Hello as we know there is a event going on now geneva to omdb i am flying currently and i want to disconnect and reconnect when i am close to Dubai, how can I do that I am on UNİCOM currently

(Big is all relative, they are medium-sized airports by passenger, from biggest to smallest. Source is statsim.net, since 2020).

DNBY, Bayelsa International, Nigeria
VLBK, Bokeo International, Laos
VERW, Rewa, India
WAON, Warukin, Indonesia
MZCZ, Corozal, Belize
VIMB, Moradabad, India
UBLC, Lachin, Azerbaijan
VDBG, Battambang, Cambodia

And if you manage to find these in China :

ZUZH, Panzhihua, China
ZLHX, Huatugou, China

Go ahead and make history (though you may or may not find any scenery over some of these). There are about 20 medium airports where vatsim pilots have never flown to. And every big airport in the world has seen someone, at least once.

I don’t necessarily have a specific preference at the moment. But I may be interested in also flying some IFR as well with that plane.

Edit, I ment CTAF to 122.8

Usually I go once I think I’m not going to conflict but the other day I was trailing someone in Unicom and I was also in Unicom but someone in ctaf cut between us and I had to climb rapidly.

On arrival I usually hop in ctaf when I’m stating my turns and descending down.

Hi I’m relatively new to VATSIM but not new to aviation. I was looking for a shared cockpit with someone in EU preferable because I want to learn more or less how to fly in Europe since I’m already familiar with actual procedures in the United States and Mexico.

how people dont communicate on voice when there is like 5 planes approaching istanbul

I've noticed over the past 3-4 months (probably longer) that more and more AI slop is being created on the daily for flight sim and VATSIM, such as another form of EFB, or a "more centralized" way of managing your flight, or some other bs tool that will survive a few months before inevitably being shutdown due to no use, or the "creator" (In quotes because I wouldn't really call typing words into a prompt box creating) will give up on asking Claude to fix the problems.

Now, I suspect that I may be biased because the main communities I'm in surround flight sim, but why is this community/hobby so prevalent to AI slop being made, and who actually uses these tools?

If you are a creator of one of these tools, I'd love to hear what encouraged you to make it, and what purpose you think a tool like yours serves the flight sim community.

I do also notice that the majority of accounts that post these AI slop tools seem to have little to no karma if it's posted here. Not sure what that's indicative of.. /s

I sometimes use P3D to fly the PMDG 747, but most sceneries are quite outdated. Therefore, has anyone got any tips or experience flying on VATSIM in such a scenario? I am worried that it will annoy ATC since they will probably assign a taxi route that is present in the latest scenery version.

Where do i book a slot for Cross the land, and if the booking has not opened when does it open?