- Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:03 pm
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Dear friends,
in the past few days I had some time on my hands and I took the opportunity to donate it to VATSIM's members and create a CPDLC Quick Starter Manual. CPDLC is the acronym for Controller Pilot DataLink Communication.
While CPDLC and PDC are being used widely in the real world, at VATSIM it is just a minority of ATCOs and pilots. There is a functioning ACARS server free of charge, including several free clients that enable pilots and ATCOs to connect to this server, enabling them to perform CPDLC and PDC procedures in a professional way. I promise that it will make you smile, when you see it working on your computer! So far everyone who managed to get it going told me "how cool is this!?".
I figured that there are several factors that kept members away from using CPDLC: installing and setting up the clients appears to be a complex task, using a tool on top of your radar or flight simulator software does not seem to be attractive and those CPDLC.procedures sound complicated.
To address some of these concerns I created this CPDLC Quick Starter Manual, featuring 2 standalone clients for pilots and 2 clients for ATCOs - one being a standalone program, the other a Plugin for EuroScope (PDC only at this time).
All steps from download through installation, setting up and operation are covered. It's all about CPDLC, PDC and ACARS.
Current is Edition 1.2.2 | 25 November 2016
The main difference is that during the setup of Hoppie's ACARS Airborne Client you do not outquote the program "wfacars" anymore, but start it up. It is required to send proper position reports to ATC. Should you have installed the before mentioned Client according to a previous version of the CPDLC Quick Starter Manual, you should have a quick look. It is a very, very easy fix that will be done in seconds.
Download the CPDLC Quick Starter Manual (PDF document, 1.5Mb)
Record of changes:
Please help spreading the word about this topic and the manual. The more members use these tools, the more realistic it will become for the community and the more development we may trigger.
If you have questions, suggestions, find mistakes and wish to give feedback: fire away! Please not that I will be away for work until Thursday, so I am not be able to answer within a few hours.
in the past few days I had some time on my hands and I took the opportunity to donate it to VATSIM's members and create a CPDLC Quick Starter Manual. CPDLC is the acronym for Controller Pilot DataLink Communication.
While CPDLC and PDC are being used widely in the real world, at VATSIM it is just a minority of ATCOs and pilots. There is a functioning ACARS server free of charge, including several free clients that enable pilots and ATCOs to connect to this server, enabling them to perform CPDLC and PDC procedures in a professional way. I promise that it will make you smile, when you see it working on your computer! So far everyone who managed to get it going told me "how cool is this!?".
I figured that there are several factors that kept members away from using CPDLC: installing and setting up the clients appears to be a complex task, using a tool on top of your radar or flight simulator software does not seem to be attractive and those CPDLC.procedures sound complicated.
To address some of these concerns I created this CPDLC Quick Starter Manual, featuring 2 standalone clients for pilots and 2 clients for ATCOs - one being a standalone program, the other a Plugin for EuroScope (PDC only at this time).
All steps from download through installation, setting up and operation are covered. It's all about CPDLC, PDC and ACARS.
Current is Edition 1.2.2 | 25 November 2016
The main difference is that during the setup of Hoppie's ACARS Airborne Client you do not outquote the program "wfacars" anymore, but start it up. It is required to send proper position reports to ATC. Should you have installed the before mentioned Client according to a previous version of the CPDLC Quick Starter Manual, you should have a quick look. It is a very, very easy fix that will be done in seconds.
Download the CPDLC Quick Starter Manual (PDF document, 1.5Mb)
Record of changes:
- Chapter 3.2.3: Leave “wfacars” active for Hoppie’s ACARS ATC Client
- Chapter 3.2.4.3: Proper method to erase historic ACARS messages
- Chapter 3.3: Beta 16 of Project A330 CPDLC AOC Client released. References change from B15 to B16. If you have B15 installed, you don’t need to do anything.
Please help spreading the word about this topic and the manual. The more members use these tools, the more realistic it will become for the community and the more development we may trigger.
If you have questions, suggestions, find mistakes and wish to give feedback: fire away! Please not that I will be away for work until Thursday, so I am not be able to answer within a few hours.
Last edited by Andreas Fuchs 810809 on Fri Nov 25, 2016 4:18 pm, edited 6 times in total.