Broadcasting on UNICOM

[David Franklin 0]

Curious as to text chat while in flight for like UNICOM on VATSIM without having to minimize flightsim. Use the FS9 chat window?

[Lindsey Wiebe 1101951 1]

I've never used swift but with vPilot you can select under options "always on top" so you can keep it open and not have to minimize your sim; I'm going to [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ume it's similar (i'm also [Mod - Happy Thoughts]uming you only have the one monitor and haven't dragged the client to the 2nd...).

 

You can't use the sim chat/ATC as it's not linked to the network.

[Andreas Fuchs 240]

Yes, on swift you can also do that. On swiftGUI, on the top open the menu "Window" and then select "Toggle stay on top". You can also "float" individual widgets (e.g. Text/Chat) and then, with a right-click to access the context-menu, make it stay on top.

[David Franklin 0]

I ended up using a spare monitor I had around. Just cost me about $30 to get a new power cord and cable. Had to change fs9 back to windows mode and have SWIFT and other sim stuff on the 2nd monitor. I did figure out messaging on UNICOM.....lol. Thanks folks!

[Lindsey Wiebe 1101951 1]

You'll be WAAAAAY happier with the second monitor. Even if it's a [Mod - lovely stuff]py square old one. You can put up charts, checklists, ATC client (obviously), VatSpy… Netflix for those longer flights.

[Mats Edvin Aaro 121]

Broadcasting via Swift in-sim, just like XSB works will probably come sometime in the future. I spoke to one of the devs not too long ago, they have just not come around to it yet...