X-Plane 11.30 ATC | Full Tutorial

[@jagjet9153]

Another nice bit of useful content ! Thanks Q8.... While the ATC system is far from perfect, it is a functional tool for the beginning virtual airmen. Let's not lose sight of the fact that you own a high functioning simulator for less than $ 100. To put this in perspective, as a accident free professional corporate jet captain for more than 30 years experience, this a great visualization tool and simulation. I would much rather have a more accurate flight model than a fully realized ATC systems. I started on MSFS 1. nothing and seen the evolution of the simulation hobby from the beginning. I train in full motion simulators with 6 degrees of motion and a multi million dollar price tag every 6 months. The stock weather and cloud portrayal is quite good and with the new particle system, it will become something quite special. With regard to speed guidance, that is strictly for the pilot in command to make that determination, ATC will only tell you to speed up or slow down to a limit that helps them with traffic flow. It is your responsibility to keep the aircraft in the envelope while you are flying. Sid and Stars are supported by the FMC, just not followed by ATC for insertion into the flow of traffic. They break you off onto a heading and then work you into a downwind, base and final, usually far too spread out. Ideally 6-8 mile interception of the final is enough to make a stable and unhurried approach. As I have many thousand hours in the ATC system and have flown many approaches that most of you have never hears of, if you are not happy with the internal ATC system included you have the right to spend a lot of money finding one that does a better job or go to Vatsim or Pilot Edge, both great add-ons and spend more money and have less coverage. Q8 spends a lot of valuable time making content to help this community and if you have an issue with a product, you should contact the author and make useful suggestions, not take a tutorial maker to task over something he has no control over. Osama, I saved you for last my friend, I have 2 comments on technique for you. I kept watching and wondering if you'd see the misaligned DG and Compass, and waiting...then you found it. I try never to enter the runway with no flags, on course heading, avionics set, trim set 3 axis, fuel sufficient for flight and full knowledge of the weather I'll see enroute. That's my killer list ! Another small but useful tip, I always marry up the heading bug with the current heading so in case I need to change quickly I can just hit heading mode and then twist to a new ATC instruction. You have a great sense of what it takes to fly and your instincts serve you well. We are all no better the our instructors, although we may be skilled and competent, we can always learn more. I am currently working on a Series for KZbin called "What makes a better pilot ?" It will be tips, tricks and ways to organize your mind to stay focused on the task at hand. With 30 plus years sitting on sheepskin, I may have a few useful contributions. Cheers Robert Phelps ATP CE-500, 525(s), 650, 750 and CL60, IAI 1125 and 400 plus other types

[@Q8Pilot]

Well said my friend, thank you for sharing your thoughts, I appreciate it!

[@rahimshahid8036]

Finally made my first successful flight. Thanks man, I was so confused before this. ❤

[@dereksanders7905]

Another great video! One thing that is seriously missing from the ATC in XP-11 is that, when on final approach to land, there is no ATC notification of wind speed and direction to the pilot when the controller gives landing clearance. In real life when the tower controller gives a pilot clearance to land he will always give the state of the wind.

[@slimjim2475]

X-Plane's default ATC works well only in tutorial videos. 11.30 doesn't fix the main problem when ATC forgets about your aircraft on approach.

[@CapoeiraPiper]

Great tutorial! If you're new to this game, be aware the stock ATC often flies you into mountains, and has a myriad of issues. There's a mod that improves on a lot of these problems called 'better ATC'. Have a nice day.

[@tonycheng6478]

Ikr, the other issue with the ATC is that it make you fly around circle.

[@dixonjamesofficial]

Thanks for doing PDX and the northwest....Ortho Scenery inthe Mt. Hood wilderness is one of the coolest areas

[@AroundSun]

The perfect ATC system would be a mix of FSX ATC, and a simple voice recognition for the player. Insanely easy to do. You could repeat an entire phrase for realism, but the computer would only be looking for a few words to match one of those numbered command options you are given in the little menu that pops up. So they may say turn left heading 180 and you can repeat back the entire "turning left to 180 climbing 3000, N93DK" but the software is only looking for a few words to mimic the confirmation transmission back to the tower such as, "turning, climbing, repeat last, etc." Read backs would only be looking for the first word in the directions. Like |left on sierra, turn right on alpha, hold short runway 3-6" would only be waiting for the term "turn left, or turn right" to transmit the read back.

[@pmh1nic]

Thanks for the tutorial. I’m being my Xplane simulator experience and this has been very helpful.

[@Q8Pilot]

Most welcome and thank you for watching the video!

[@johngalonska5753]

Thanks for the info Q8. I got the ATC Chatter free and it works ok but then I decided to get the Pilot2ATC. This has its bugs, but generally, it works better than just listening to loops. keep up the good work with your videos.

[@cleniolelys]

Always a great tutorial helping everyone in the x-plane community.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks a whole bunch Silvio!

[@rolandgardiner3059]

Thanks for the video. Extremely helpful as I have been finding the ATC frustrating.

[@drewf4667]

Loving the civil air patrol livery, I have it myself, I was a C/CMSg, never got higher before I left, awesome video!

[@Q8Pilot]

Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!

[@pioassy]

i did it correct but i didnt know how to turn off the autopilot in cesena 172 pls anyone tell me when i landed the atc has been cancelled

[@heinzpilot]

Good overview. I agree with your assessment that ATC has come a long way in X-Plane. However it is still lacking in some areas. One of the big issues I notice is that you'll get some strange vectors to try to get you to a fix initially. Like turning a hundred eighty degrees the opposite direction and then turning back around. Kind of strange.

[@JoseMartinez-oc4vx]

Great video as always. Thank you very much for let us know how the new X-plane-11.30 Will work. Looking fordward for your Next video. 👍

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching my friend!

[@Kreemerz]

OMG. . been a long time in coming.... Been waiting for someone to do this and by George, you've done it!!! Thanks so much!!!!:

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching my friend!

[@snowball8940]

I was flying the Aerobask Robin DR401 and it doesn’t have a transponder I think but the act kept telling me to squawk 4700. X plane 11’s ATC sucks.

[@FlightSim2703]

As usual beautiful, I personally appreciate your awesome uploads, which helped me very much to learn more for better setups, and install awesome enjoyable softwares, by the way you have beautiful voice on entire KZbin channels. Thanks and regards ☺👍👍👍

[@GKEntertainment12]

After I file my flightplan I get nothing, assuming I am not tuned to the right frequency but unclear on how to identify the appropriate frequency to tune to?? please help

[@mirageycq]

Wow!! Thanks for the video. I still have a lot to learn.

[@The1PatSmith]

Thank you, Osamah, interesting, informative and excellent as always. Thank you once again.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thank you for your encouraging words Patrick and for watching the video!

[@anttv9341]

how to enable ATC

[@蔡泽锴]

why I lost my autoATC，become a bar that you can type letter but can't do anything when you hit the enter

[@pathm11]

at 3:45 to the VOR OLM is 201 deg. not 021. Great Tutorial Thanks

[@stephengale7177]

The only short coming I can see is that it does not give you any way of changing runway selection to be compatible with sim brief or is there a way of putting the data from sim brief into xplane ATC

[@burgerzz09s51]

How do you start from a non atc airport to an atc airport.

[@theraptor6685]

Seems like a great improvement over the last version. Hopefully they will add voice recognition into a future version.

[@Q8Pilot]

Agreed, they are making small improvements, I really would wish for an add-on though that would take care of ATC once and for all =)

[@AllenPortman]

How come you are reporting to ATC as SP when your plane call is indicating 29CP?

[@matteopellizzer6104]

On all aircraft when it comes to automation you need to program it before engaging it so select heading mode the v/s mode then AP

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching the video!

[@smoothflying]

Yass, have been waiting for this, thank you :-)

[@ellonysman]

Captain, next time your in the Seattle area, come on up and visit us in CYXX across the border from Sumas. We are Abbotsford. Any xplane pilots, please, try to show off our Vancouver, BC to Hope, BC region and our lovely mountain range! More helicopter videos too lol, bush flying, over to the Gulf Islands etc....

[@dasrockness]

Why is the tail number reading 2 sierra papa and not 29 charlie papa?

[@Amerikanin2numarali_ustasi]

9:31 heading indicator and compass NOT mathcing!

[@WarrenPostma]

This is super handy and I had no idea the ATC simulation was this advanced. The ATC chatter for other planes is from XPRealistic?

[@saturn28]

First! :D Already I know this is going to be a great video! Thanks for the hard work and dedication that goes into these stunning videos! Love it! :D

[@AllenPortman]

How did you get a different tail number other than N197SP?

[@apivovarov2]

@21:45 - flaps are only on 10. Should they be full?

[@Q8Pilot]

It is a long runway so no need for full flaps.

[@FlightSims]

Thanks for your talent here as a teacher/educator. We’d be left without landing lights trying to navigate the complexities of flight simulators and the programs that support it.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching the video!

[@victormoga9432]

how do you manage to have atc talking on the back?Thank you

[@pareshrr]

Where did you set the altimeter? I did not see anything move in the gauge when you mentioned it at the start

[@tradewindaerialimagingllc2962]

A newbie question: why is the a/c identified in the flight plan as 172 Sierra Papa when the panel clearly identifies it as 429 Charlie Papa? Is this another shortcoming of the program's ATC feature?

[@pbr2805]

Well done!!! I have been flying the B737-800.

[@yiannissimos4652]

This might be a stupid comment, but how are you to know the frequency needed for VOR stations? is it something you'd find on the map?

[@solidsnake123100]

Fuel pump is no required during engine start?

[@DarrenlinesUk]

Great video. But how do you disable the autopilot in the Cessna in XP 11.30? In 11.26 there was an AP button to disable it, but this has gone. Tried clicking everything but nothing worked.

[@davej318]

There are instructions in the STEC autopilot manual available on xplane.com. The tell you to assign two buttons. One to disconnect servos and another to enable control wheel steering (CWS). You can also disable the autopilot by using the electric trim. I would have hoped they would mention the changes in the upgrade notes.

[@scubastevewa8580]

The red button on the left yoke can be used to engage/disengage the autopilot (its best to have a hotkey set though). As far as I understand, they changed the system to make it more realistic.

[@RPSchonherr]

I'm used to flying at uncontrolled airports with VFR flying. At such you tune to the airports common channel and call out your positions for other aircraft in the area. How do you do that on x-plane? MS2004 has that feature.

[@brasilianexpress7765]

Why it keeps repeating "skyhawk2SP, squawk4701" all the time in my xplane11?

[@stishkuludomphong5277]

Pls, do a tutorial: on XP11 default B737-700 Simbrief company route VTBS/VTSP. To/From home sinks in better. Thank you.

[@michaeljensen3612]

Wow... That ATC sounds very bad! However, what is the ATC you are having running in the background? It sounds very real..

[@Bobmama1]

I think it's the ATC chatter

[@HieronymousLex]

3:37 when you go into this menu, none of that stuff is already in there for me

[@johnpiper82]

No flaps on landing? What’s up with that

[@TacticalPigeon-theting]

thank you so much, also nice flight!

[@AV8R_1]

How do you GET 11.3 ATC? I have X Plane 11.26, and it says the version is up to date. My ATC sucks. I don't even have the ambient radio chatter you have going on... What am I missing?

[@PilotDiggerdavid]

I am new to X Plane and in the early beginnings set up! Do you have a intro set up video? Looking for any help you can offer!

[@flightsimactu7700]

Hi. Thank you for this useful tutorial. I´m new on X-Plane and i try to find how to active this "real traffic ATC voices" that you have a beginning of your video. Is it a plugging to add, or is that an option in game to set ? Thanks.

[@TijmensAviation]

I’m sorry, but XP11 makes tons of money and they come with this ATC system. Robotic voices, doesn’t recognize squawk emergency codes, send you in holding patterns without a reason etc. They should really make something good or there must come a good ATC plugin, cuz this is absolute crap Great video, Q8!

[@MrBlincster]

Austin need the money for his turboprop! Now back to serious, Pilot2atc is a decent atc plugin.

[@matteopellizzer6104]

At the end of the day nothing is perfect and from what im aware they care more about flight physics and simulation rather than ATC since you would have better options with pilotage and vatsim/ivao as a close second otherwise if those don't make it sufficient, getting a pilot licence would be the only option

[@FlightSims]

No matter what, at the end of the day, X-Plane is *By Far*, second to none in the consumer and edging into professional, flight simulation world. Having said that, there are others that are seriously close and are excellent products within their sphere.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching my friend! Considering the small team at Laminar and their primary focus on flight physics, I am not surprised to see ATC lagging behind. Hopefully an add on that would address all of the issues sometime in the future.

[@jorge_781]

@@MrBlincster Pilot2ATC is 1000x better than default ATC but it's still poor, it doesn't chat with AI aircrafts and it's robotic too (Windows voices)

[@FarhatGuitarOfficial]

Thank you very much! Great tutorial!

[@MegaTraker]

Good job teaching, for my part many time I go back to fly the X Plane 9.70 if I want to do a cross country flying with sometime asking for a permission to modify my planing and ATC there will respond to that.V11.30 do not respond to anything.

[@covid-192]

is there a way to get actual people to be atc like in the Microsoft flight sim

[@denjosh1613]

Hi my atc change into keyboard how do i change it like you contact the atc?

[@63pino63]

This is done so well! Thank you!

[@zacharygrossman8316]

When I click enter it brings up a line where I type? What do I do?

[@jad1079]

Thank you. I was wondering what X-Plane ATC entailed. Disappointing it doesn't have speed guidance.

[@mrvwbug4423]

The lack of SIDs and STARs is bad too, especially if you are wanting to fly airliners.

[@jad1079]

Maybe XP12 ATC will have SIDs and STARs.

[@juanm.5404]

Hello, Q8Pilot. One question, please. The ATC of X-Plane 11 is only for IFR flights, isn't it?

[@steccaman73]

Hi Q8Pilot, great tutorial as always, I heard background atc/aircraft communications. It's a plugin? See you

[@ericc7936]

flying from cyow to cyul. have entered route it picked from skyvector into fpl and hit enter. nothing happens. what the heck?

[@robertvertacnik9989]

When I first bought Flight Assignment ATP in 1990, at least the ATC would let me select the runways that I wanted to take off from and land on. X-Plane 11 has the best flight dynamics for sure, but the ATC isn't even as good as the ATC in FS2002 in my opinion.

[@stephengale7177]

Is XPlane ATC compatible with Global Traffic by Just Flight

[@tonycheng6478]

Hopefully when XP12 come out, I hope that the ATC has VFR option, and when you are requesting IFR, the ATC will generate SID/STAR for you, I hope that you can request emergency and hopefully that the AI will have it’s own flight plan and schedule with it’s traffic file that can be edit if you want to add a new flight plan for the AI or add a new AI aircraft, just like FSX. I also hope that the ATC use Microsoft narrator voice instead of the robotic voice

[@w33b3l]

I just want to be able to use the radios properly so I can get ATIS and talk to the tower on VFR flights like a normal person. Why is that so hard? They really need to get arrivals and departures working. When I actually do IFR im doing it without filing and doing radio off landings.

[@r0ck3th76]

@Q8Pilot what do you use for ATC when you are flying the in-game one or another one

[@ethanmoffatt6336]

What is that smoke at 1:50 ?

[@ronv5126]

@Q8Pilot How do you get the radio volume to be at an equal level between the pilot and ATC?? When I use ATC I can control their speaking volume through the radio volume setting in Settings, but the volume my pilot speaks at is ALWAYS MUCH louder. I mean if my speakers are set at just 30%, it’s so loud that it almost sounds like my speakers are going to blow when the pilot talks. So I’m constantly adjusting the volume when I need to respond and I can’t figure out why it’s doing that. I see that you’re clearly not having this problem and I haven’t been able to find any help with it online- Any ideas you may have would be greatly appreciated. Love the channel btw, lots of great content and honest reviews

why default Xplane11 ATC does not respond to emergency squawk codes.

[@Stringbean421]

The only decent ATC I remember ever owning was Radar Contact 4. (RC4). It was only available for FS9/X and was amazingly good!! No robotic voices. The voices were real recordings of people the developer knew if I remember correctly. From taxi to take-off right through to landing, RC4 would guide you all the way. It would tell you reset your QNH when necessary, change radio frequencies and the controllers would give you a stern telling off if you didn't do what you were told correctly. In fact, when you landed, you were sometimes told by ground control to stay in your aircraft until an official arrived and that official would take your license away if reported by the controllers for not properly adhering to instructions en-route. Pretty good stuff for something developed over ten years ago. There was going to be an RC5 but sadly, it never materialised and development ceased. I don't even know what became of the developer over the years.

[@flusifan3417]

Radar Contact 4 (RC 4) is now available for free. See this farewell message by the developers posted December 29, 2018: www.avsim.com/forums/topic/547732-radar-contact-and-jdtllc-in-transition/ Also there is a payware plugin to use RC 4 in X-Plane see secure.simmarket.com/fs-limited-rc4toxplane.phtml I do not own a copy of that plugin yet, so cannot tell more about it.

[@Stringbean421]

@@flusifan3417 Yea,..I already seen that a while ago. Good of the Devs to do that. I'm an XP11 User now so it's no good for me these days unfortunately but great for the Users of FSX and P3D.

[@matiasbessi3386]

Why the atc says “resume navigation” instead of giving you new instructions to intercept the new vor? or does he means “resume navigation” according to the navigation route and vors stations you registered at the beggining of the video?

[@aleccross3535]

I think it applies to when your at your longest waypoint leg. When I fly, the resume navigation callout usually comes in when I'm just about to enter my cruising alt and heading.

[@dannywalsh840]

Hi what key do you press to paste the route in the box please?

[@mattitorhonen7831]

Hi, Thank you for your ATC tutorial, nice work. I also have X-Plane 11.41 and wonder why the same airport KPDX does not look as in your video? In my version the graphics of the airport scenery lokks more like 2D compared to that in your video. Have you any idea why? Masa46

[@SuchanDEJP]

Osamah uses mostly Payware Airports.

[@mattitorhonen7831]

@@SuchanDEJP Thanks Suchan, that´s what I thought but was not sure because the airport in Q8`s video looked otherwise much like that in my SIM.

[@XPlaneAviation]

Wait how are sids and stars not supported? Their default FMCs support them.

[@Q8Pilot]

Default FMC yes, ATC no. The ATC flight plan will not accept SIDS and STARS unfortunately.

[@REVobey]

Ill always do everything right it seems and it lines me up for landing and then switches me to that atc but then ill just get sent back and never be able to be cleared for landing? Is it more or is the games atc messed up? Never gotten told to descend or anything of that nature. I dont get it.

[@rogueone100]

I have followed this tutorial step by step and reviewed it a few times to be sure I didnt miss a process. I notice that on my GPS in the bottom left blue box it says "LOC" but Q8pilots says his first waypoint of OLM and its radial. Whats going on here? What did I miss?

[@chrisbarker5336]

Did you ever resolve this? I have the same issue :(

[@richx9324]

I didn't see you change your altitude when they kept giving you different ones, you just set your climb/descent rate how does that work?

[@dtrjones]

I might be wrong but isn't this how 10.26 ATC worked? I thought there was some changes in the ATC for 10.30 but I didn't see any.

[@Q8Pilot]

The changes are in the ATC flight plan. The flight number, airline, tail...etc.

[@nukedaddy]

The voices seem to have a little more variety.

[@mrvwbug4423]

Still largely useless for anything other than what Q8 was doing, IFR GA flying. It is almost unheard of to not use SIDS and STARs for airliner ops (unless you're flying into or out of a field that doesn't have them).

[@Mucologist]

Looks promising. Thanks for this,

[@manleybrittain1296]

Very insightful video Thanks!

[@Q8Pilot]

Thank you Manley, glad you enjoyed it!

[@SimPilotMika]

I hope you respond. Is there any way I can change the runway it’s assigned me on? Simbrief told me to takeoff from runway 34L, but ATC told me to take off from runway 16L. It ruined my whole plan. I hope I can change it

[@Q8Pilot]

X-Plane ATC is not very friendly, but you should get a proper assignment if you are using real world weather. You can't change what ATC gives you unfortunately.

[@SimPilotMika]

@@Q8Pilot I think I figured it out now after some reading up after this comment. I think I just need to put in more work in manually setting the runways in simbrief based on researching weather winds at my 2 airports. It takes more work but it’s worth it since I desperately want Traffic Global

[@edward28051989]

FSX's ATC was better....LAMINAR, why you don't learning how to spoken number as natural way, with human voices?

[@Q8Pilot]

Laminar has a very small team of developers. Their primary focus is on the flight model and physics. The ATC has come a long way, but it is no way near perfect. It will probably never be perfect. Thanks for watching!

[@Wessey]

@@Q8Pilot They need at least say " Turn Left or turn right." sometimes it's very difficult to know what they want me to do... to me, looks the same ATC since XP10... so sad.

[@jagjet9153]

@@Wessey ATC except under extraordinary circumstances does in fact turn you the closest way to the new heading. If you are looking at your heading indicator you will see which way to turn from the new heading assignment. No rocket science here.

[@nukedaddy]

I like how it FSX ATC you can fly VFR and request flight following and then select any airport and request landing clearance (if it has a tower).

[@AroundSun]

FSX also communicated with other AI planes which you could visibly see following their commands

[@TM-ho7hv]

Hey, whats the mod/plugin for plane's shakes (like during engine start and taxis)?

[@jackchesnut1956]

Headshake... Here's the link to the download: www.simcoders.com/headshake/headshake/

[@billyjay4672]

Absolutely Brill just one comment.when you were at 90 at what speed drop are you doing when coming into land.?

[@andysilvester7465]

Hello Buddy, I know I am rather "after the event" with this comment, but can you please drop your machine specs in a post so I can see what you are using. Also, (not important) but please tell me what graphics detail you have set for it. Thanks Andy

[@SuchanDEJP]

Unfortunately Osamah no longer operates the channel. But because of the graphics settings, he made a video. Just search in his channel. His PC setup is in the channel info. Here the Link to the Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKTYnmilbq54sNk

[@jakeperl5857]

Does ground control always direct you to the correct operating runway? I've noticed that by default, when you load a scenery, XP does not place you on the correct one much of the time.

[@luisdias764]

hello, Do you know how to use the atc as in x plane 10, without having to use the mouse thank you

[@MajorTom.]

is 11.30 released?

[@joaoleitao3320]

I used to fly the sim Flight 2 unlimited years ago, the ATC was amazing why can’t Xplane do something similar? The old F2U would even vectorize you to the ils made traffic information etc it was brilliant and this was like 15 years ago!

[@Kev376]

is this a stock xplane cessna?

[@waynesweet8275]

Be VERY CAREFUL with ATC altitude instructions. Twice on a night flight from KSAC California to KSNS (Salinas), ATC descended me to 2000' too soon and at night I crashed into the Gabilion Mountains east of Salinas. Apparently ATC is somewhat ignorant of lower mountains.

[@tonycheng6478]

Ikr hopefully when X-Plane 12 comes out, ATC should get better

[@ola.ljungqvist1966]

Tnx a lot Osamah - once again. I still wonder why Laminar won't seek a collab with someone doing ATC much better. Any thoughts?

[@rogermoore52]

nice video thanks, look forward to your thoughts on skymaxx pro & real weather connect

[@rogermoore52]

ps and how to set up FSWRW - weather connect - skymaxx pro as the manuals are rubbish

[@CK-lp4is]

How do I get atis

[@RPSchonherr]

WTF is Sky Vector and how do you get to it?