Feature requests

Stack instructions: In the real life, controllers often issues several instructions in one call. Right now all of the following examples in the game require two or more back-forth calls which takes unrealistic amount of time. If the frequency is busy, I hope the game would allow player to pre-select several instructions on screen, and when there’s opportunity to make the call, it would go in one run.

Add an option to ask pilots to monitor a frequency instead to “contact.” Pilots would tune to the new frequency without making a check-in call. It’s also a real world procedure. This is helpful when there is a queue for takeoff and there’s no point for the pilots to call tower and receive a “hold short“ instruction when the aircraft is the 5th in the line for takeoff.

Give way during taxi. Instead of asking aircrafts to hold position, and continue taxi, ATCs use something like “DAL12, give way to Airbus A320 on Bravo.” The pilot would hold short of Bravo, and continue taxi as soon as A320 passes.

Tower controls the area between active runways instead of Ground. At JFK, between 4L and 4R are handled by the tower, and it’s simply because it does not make sense for Ground to clear for crossing 4L, when landing is managed by the tower. So instead of handling landing traffic on 4R directly to Ground, they would say, “DAL456, exit left on Echo, taxi on Yankee, Foxtrot and hold short of 4L.“ What’s more interesting is that taxi on Foxtrot, cross runway 4L, contact Ground can be issued combined in one call.