Gray Taylor 1041931 Posted February 3, 2010 at 07:50 PM Posted February 3, 2010 at 07:50 PM Port-au-Prince Control at your service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Eamon Brennan Posted February 14, 2010 at 02:09 PM Posted February 14, 2010 at 02:09 PM Still "bright", but a few dfferences:- Lisboa Approach: Daniel Eamon Brennan - C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Yngver Posted February 15, 2010 at 05:50 PM Posted February 15, 2010 at 05:50 PM VTBS_TWR - Bangkok/Suvarnabhumi Tower No traffic as of yet tonight... Patrik Yngvér VATSIM Thailand vACC Deputy Director C3 ENR Controller ESNO, Sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastien Bartosz Posted February 20, 2010 at 10:25 PM Posted February 20, 2010 at 10:25 PM Here are some shots from 19/02 On LFMM_CTR And this one is on LFFF_CTR. I forget the date... New York ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Grauers Posted February 21, 2010 at 08:23 AM Posted February 21, 2010 at 08:23 AM I thuoght you were going to try out Euroscope? Nice pictures though Johan Grauers Event Coordinator - vACC Scandinavia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastien Bartosz Posted February 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM Posted February 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM I did try out Euroscope and I control with it sometimes ^^ New York ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Heiser 1052801 Posted February 22, 2010 at 01:58 AM Posted February 22, 2010 at 01:58 AM ABQ CTR: ABQ APP: P50 (PHX TRACON): U90 (TUS TRACON): AMA APP: ELP APP: AJ Heiser Senior Controller, ZLA ARTCC "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." ~ Jim Horning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Bernard 1026637 Posted February 26, 2010 at 10:22 PM Posted February 26, 2010 at 10:22 PM Philly Approach. On my second monitor I have approach plates. Don't know why my colors are off in screenshots. ZOB EC, Mentor Have an event you'd like ZOB staffing for? Email [email protected] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Longtin 1066037 Posted February 26, 2010 at 10:34 PM Posted February 26, 2010 at 10:34 PM Nice chat box there Gavin. Garrett Longtin - 1066037 VATUSA, vZAB, S3 vZAB Mentor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Bernard 1026637 Posted February 26, 2010 at 11:26 PM Posted February 26, 2010 at 11:26 PM Thankfully it wasn't me that said that. Now all of VATSIM knows their mistakes. ZOB EC, Mentor Have an event you'd like ZOB staffing for? Email [email protected] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Poyda 1058160 Posted February 28, 2010 at 04:27 PM Posted February 28, 2010 at 04:27 PM My Scope for EDDM (München) Online: Delivery, Apron, Tower, and Arrival TAG: set by me: Callsign/ communication type Squawk / Arrival Aircraft type / [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned Runway Depature route Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Caffey Posted March 2, 2010 at 06:52 AM Posted March 2, 2010 at 06:52 AM Well the colors didn't come out right at all.. I don't have a Print Screen key on my computer, and the combo that help says equals it does nothing so I have a free screen grabber.. Anyway, the flight strip is the more important thing here, sadly he never called PS, usually it's zoomed out farther, I was handling someone's taxi at the time. Steven Caffey (SY) ZLA Controller "A mile of highway gets you one mile, but a mile of runway can take you anywhere." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Longtin 1066037 Posted March 2, 2010 at 08:21 AM Posted March 2, 2010 at 08:21 AM Phoenix Approach: Sorry, theres no aircraft at Phoenix at 2:00am Garrett Longtin - 1066037 VATUSA, vZAB, S3 vZAB Mentor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Lewis Posted March 2, 2010 at 11:13 AM Posted March 2, 2010 at 11:13 AM There might be a few if you reconnect to the network lol The above pertains to United States Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Longtin 1066037 Posted March 2, 2010 at 09:58 PM Posted March 2, 2010 at 09:58 PM HAHA, I checked to see if any were online then logged off since there were none. Garrett Longtin - 1066037 VATUSA, vZAB, S3 vZAB Mentor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luca Benelli Posted March 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM Posted March 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM LIRR_N_CTR on dual monitor, i can't find the ones i made while controlling so they are made as OBS. CTR to the left zoomed in on LIRF, SMR for LIRF Ground on the right. Luca Benelli - C3 - P2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Eberle Posted March 6, 2010 at 02:45 PM Posted March 6, 2010 at 02:45 PM (edited) It's up to me that I want to share my way through to my controller software setup I am going to write that for the pilot that is eager to see how our scopes look like as well as for the experienced controller that might find my feelings common to his own way through setting up a controller workstation. The sector we deal with is EDGG_S, one of the (hundreds of) Langen Radars (everything that has a scope from the middle of Germany down to the border of France and Switzerland is called a "Langen Radar"). Covered primary fields are Frankfurt/Main in the middle, Stuttgart, Frankfurt/Hahn and Nuremberg (in the East, if no Munich Radar is online). In the first picture you can see roughly ten more fields that have at least a temporary control zone and some sort of IFR procedures. My starting point is an oldish laptop with a 12" display. You don't believe me? Yeah, you are right: I attached a 22" flatscreen to it We start with the dusk of EuroScope 3.1d, January this year, which was able to make everything much more colorful It conincided with my CTR-promotion so here you see one of my first afternoon-sessions on CTR. From today's point of view (only 3 months later which shows that this point is changing constantly...) way too much unnecessary information drawing attention from important things. What you can see are the EuroScope-common "handoff borders" (around Frankfurt approach sector and to Cologne approach in the Northwest). EuroScope can be taught to know each and every airspace and which controller is handling it. You get neat hints about the agreed "coordination points" and together with a constant calculation of the aircraft's path a direct indication which controller will be next for each and every plane. On the bottom a simple flight strip is shown, summarizing the flightplan data and adding some information by looking up databases (name of airports, plane type and wake turbulence category). The lists on the left are rather self-explanatory in their meaning and are fully customizable. They follow the same color scheme as the aircraft tag (the thing on the scope along each radartarget that shows the textual information) in my case, but if you are masochistic, you can choose different colors here The base colors in this setup are: Cyan for tracked aircraft (EuroScope calls that "[Mod - Happy Thoughts]umed" - basically an indication of "this airplane is mine, you other radar controller leave your hand off it!"); Orange for aircraft that will soon enter my airspace ("notified" in EuroScope's vocabulary) and sand yellow for "unconcerned" aircraft. In the lists interesting fields are T (Voice/Text/Receive only communication type), XFL (planned sector exit flightlevel, thanks to EuroScope's knowledge of handoff points and altitudes), COPX (planned sector exit point) and SI (the controller currently tracking the aircraft [curently none] or the next sector's controller identifier). In this setup I had the Holding List installed - which I find totally useless nowadays The METAR list shows another nice EuroScope feature: Along with the Wind and QNH information the current ATIS letter is indicated. This is handed off from controller to controller so (as long as the other controller uses EuroScope) you get the correct designator for each ATIS in range A further helpful, but totally unrealistic (damnit ) feature is a list of pilots that have hooked to your voice channel - helpful to find that sucker pressing his Push-To-Talk button the whole time. And also a "cheat" to get a callsign where you only understood "Alitalia...a-two"... Here is the second (and third) EuroScope window. One frank talk to the (beloved) EuroScope developpers: Would be awesome if those windows would be freely resizable... On my 12" (laptop) monitor You see Stuttgart ground and the Frankfurt arrival sector. These views are basically the same I use today... See the nice little airplane on the tarmac in Stuttgart? That's EuroScope's ground view (all symbols are freely customizable, this one a little smaller than the standard). Definitely inevitable for any VATSIMer: charts. I use the free ChartViewer. It allows automatic download of official charts provided by vACCs plus it allows to quickly search in a specific folder. This is where I have all LoAs (letter of agreements between FIRs, so to say agreed procedures happening near the borders), private charts and other valuable docomeentation saved. It displays .pdf, .txt and images, basically everything you can open in Internet Explorer I am very very happy with it . Second important thing: TeamSpeak. Some addition I highly recommend for any action that is taken out parallel on VATSIM voice and Teamspeak (aka controlling or flying ). I hated to mute myself on TeamSpeak because I got confused by two different voice origins. This neat program allows to use your left headset speaker for VATSIM voice and your right one for TeamSpeak. Believe it or not: our brain is able to split that apart so that it is easier to get the message even though you are talked to on both sides. It is called Virtual Audio Cable and I have bought it for some bucks - I deem it well worth. The scope moves on. Next step I was taking was to make the colorscheme lighter. You see the difference? Yeah, some more controllers are online (see the handoff borders all around me ) And apart from that? Ah, well nothing - still cluttered like hell. Time to pull all that m[Mod - Happy Thoughts]ive amount of fancy lines out of it. Think that was February then. Looks way more controllable now, does it? + Brussels online (in the West), hooray! Another day, another colorscheme. Good contrast, but not my style... What needs to said here, is that EuroScope does not allow to change the color of the menubar on the top. You say "it is a program, not a romance". Ah, leave me alone. Here we are in March 2010. The sector shows a Friday evening load. I have added a fourth tag color: "redundant" is EuroScopish for an aircraft inside your sector, but already tracked by another controller (light grey, see one the leaves my sector to the bottom over Frankfurt's approach airspace). Pretty much everything went out of my screen, compared to the first setup: If I do not need an aircraft I "tag it down" so that only the flightlevel and climb/decend indicator is shown. No Holding list. I feel that I need everything I can see (that is subject to change, as we have seen...). Here is the tag I use now (did I say yet it is fully customizable?) What you see are two variants of the same tag family: "tagged" and "detailled". You have seen "untagged" in the fullsize Friday evening picture already. Every tag gets detailled when my mouse hovers over it. Most items hold functions that are accessed by clicking on it. So this tag is the most powerful thing ever invented in aviation. I still have the destination in the tagged variant, I need it constantly but maybe that might go out soon as well. Its color is dependant on the cleared flightlevel, either dark blue (even) or dark green (odd). Apart from that, you see present and cleared flightlevel (only shown if different from present level and in green, my color for all things I [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ign to an aircraft). The detailled tag holds the scratchpad field (make notes and stick it on a plane, like "newbie", "never reads back", "no control" etc. ), [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned SID (on the ground) or STAR (in the air). Next line: destination, planned sector exit level (only shown if not set as cleared level already), [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned RWY. Next line: callsign, eventually communication type, controller indicator (next enterring sector's controller in that case). Next line: Current flightlevel, cleared flightlevel (only shown if different from current level), speed in 10kts, next direct-to-point or [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned heading. Next line: [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned rate (1000ft/min in this case), [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned speed (250kts). Next line: flightplan data like plane type and requested cruise level. Shall I explain which functions I can access by mouseclick?... Ah, I better leave you alone, most items have functions [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned for left and right mouse buttons, where the right button is (often) to switch the item visible/off in the "tagged" variant. I am currently thinking if this is necessary because I use it so seldom. Colors: My approach is that all colors should really should "mean" something. I chose bright green for clearances (heading, cleared level, rates and speeds, SID/STAR) and co-ordinated direct-to points (you will have to think of 4 colors for EuroScops's controller co-ordination features: pending by other/by me, accepted [this one goes bright green because I consider it a clearance], refused...), ocean blue for flightplan items (aircraft, cruise level) except from destination - that one gets shown in two colors based on the cleared flightlevel (even or odd) and sand yellow for all warnings. Grey are computed values like the sector exit level or the current vertical speed. On "[Mod - Happy Thoughts]umed" (= tracked, aka "mine") airplanes the callsign, altitude and speed are shown a notch bigger than anything else, one of the best-looking features in my oppinion That, at least, is a try of making similar things look similar and give the eye a clue of what to search for when I question myself "ey, what is the cruise level of this one?". EDIT: You can download all my visual settings. After being asked for them, I put them to a .zip. Copy to your desired settings location and use "Settings files setup..." to import them to EuroScope. Thanks for your interest in a story about some VATSIM controller setting up his workstation to fit the needs and the endless (daunting, uncountable, confusing... ) possibilities of EuroScope. Make it your home and find your style! But it can be where too much freedom will never let you be content with the state you are in now. Beware Questions? You're welcome. 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Colm Fitzgerald 1037650 Posted March 6, 2010 at 04:45 PM Posted March 6, 2010 at 04:45 PM Jonas, das ist fantastisch aussieht! Macht sp[Mod - Happy Thoughts]! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Geckler Posted March 6, 2010 at 05:30 PM Posted March 6, 2010 at 05:30 PM LOL Colm. But anyways, that is really awesome! It's amazing how customizable ES is. Ryan Geckler - GK | Former VATUSA3 - Division Training Manager VATSIM Minneapolis ARTCC | FAA Miami ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Eamon Brennan Posted March 7, 2010 at 09:26 AM Posted March 7, 2010 at 09:26 AM Wow!! And some say mine are very bright and colourful! That knocks my bright ones out of the sky! Daniel Eamon Brennan - C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Rogalla 992500 Posted March 7, 2010 at 03:00 PM Posted March 7, 2010 at 03:00 PM Now I understand what Flo Harms meant with "Klickibunti". Amazing but how long you needed for designing your tag or the complete asr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Mauro Posted March 11, 2010 at 09:58 PM Posted March 11, 2010 at 09:58 PM Rough draft of Finland on ES Any comments are appeciated! I feel it can get very cluttery at times with the Sector Inbound and Exit lists but any advice will be taken into consideration Chris Mauro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Gruetzmann Posted March 12, 2010 at 12:47 AM Posted March 12, 2010 at 12:47 AM A new one of mine, this time pretty much based on the real Munich Center. Unfortunately I have only one screen right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Saw Posted March 13, 2010 at 12:46 AM Posted March 13, 2010 at 12:46 AM A sneak peak at the next instalment of TAAATSMod for EuroScope currently in development. Jake Developer - vatSys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted March 13, 2010 at 01:14 AM Posted March 13, 2010 at 01:14 AM That TAAATS mod is sweet! Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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