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New pilot, need some help getting set up


Tim Radtke 1189436
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Tim Radtke 1189436
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I have X-plane, Everything seems to be logging in correctly, but I see no aircraft and no ATC talk. I was able to log into Squakbox. It stated that i need to change the number of aircraft to more than 1...which i did. I sat out of the way at O-hare chicago to listen and hopefully see some aircraft, but nothing. any clue on what I need to do? I hit enter to talk to ATC I typed Radio Check...and nothing.

 

Also Like i said, I'm very new, not a pilot and not very familiar with the details of filing a flight plan. How do i file one on X-plan, what do i need? I really appreciate your help.

 

Tim

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Brendan Lynch 1167842
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If you want to fly with ATC, just know that ATC are not on 24/7/365, and all are volunteers. Traffic is also not nearly as heavy as RL, even during events. There are several ways to check for ATC and pilots. As a mac user, I prefer vattastic, however windows users can also take advantage of servinfo and vatspy. Also, there is vatview, a similar website to vattastic.

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