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How to plan your flight for best VATSIM coverage

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Morten Graae

By Morten Graae,
in Charts, Navigation and Flightplanning Help

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Morten Graae

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VATSIM is a great tool, and I greatly enjoy every minute of coverage, that our fellow online controllers provide.

As part of my plight planning, I have struggled in getting the information needed, to predict controllers availability. Trying to support an easier way of doing so, I have created a tool, that I use every time I am planning for a flight that I expect to fly with VATSIM. 

Some of you guys may find this helpful, so I have shared it on github and Flightsim.to. Please find links below.

So far, the solution has solely been developed from my own experience, needs and preferences. Please share any comments in this forum, so that I may enhance and improve the user experience to support a wider range of usability.

Choose your favorite download provider to get the latest version:

Do you need clarification or support please join Discord channel: https://discord.gg/xAbEGujS

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Hi Morten,
Out of curiosity, how exactly does this work? Does your tool "predict" when ATC will be online? Does it use any sort of information from within the remarks?

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Jonas Eberle

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Wow, that's some Excel wizardry!

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Morten Graae

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On 4/19/2022 at 2:39 PM, 1341101 said:

Hi Morten,
Out of curiosity, how exactly does this work? Does your tool "predict" when ATC will be online? Does it use any sort of information from within the remarks?

Not sure what you mean "Does it use any sort of information from within the remarks".

The "prediction" is made by looking at https://statsim.net/atc/?tables=true, to see who has made a registration for intended online sessions as a controller. Most of them will show up as they intended, but there are no guaranties. We're all just human, you know. 🙂

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