just a few questions and suggestions

AidenCook

now, i dont know what drives the coordination sectors for example if im controlling llfin, is it an AI that drives INTN and INTS or how does it work? because i often control INTN and LLFIN creates direct collisions on final. no coordination is possible with them because its not available in the current gui. i create a seperated stream. that is my job i need to create a stream that is then transferred to fin. but when fin makes a plane do a 360 from approach at 4000 ft it is a little hard to seperate and i cant tell you how many times i got relegated to trainee because of the stupidity of the other sectors. now i know you are sick and tired of hearing this but a multiplayer would be helpful as that allows direct coordination between sectors. or even if the current coordination menu could be updated because right now its quite limited. the questions: what drives the other sectors? could you please update the coordination gui with a little more options? (for example: i can request an altitude and a heading from an aircraft that i already handed off not just from an aircraft that is yet to be handed off.) and maybe make the system a bit smarter so it only relegates me to trainee when i make mistakes and not in impossible situations.

CloggyUk

AidenCook Hi Aiden

Any sector not controlled manually, is under Automatic Control. The aircraft follow preprogrammed tracks when under Automatic Control. I understand your frustration of building a nice little sequence as IntN and then Fin messes it up. Unfortunately this is a difficult one to get a 100% smooth, due to the nature of the Approach Sectors. In TMA and AC sectors this is not really noticeable as much. Hence personally I will only run Approach sectors bandboxed, but tend to avoid them altogether. Obviously, the rate has to come down when bandboxed in order to be able to get your transmissions in. Real life issue in London airspace! Frequency being busy tends to be the limiting factor of how many planes you can shift in any sector/airport.
Regarding coordination, you can only coordinate with the sector you receive from or hand off to for each flight. Handing off is really only the level. So once, as IntN, you have handed a plane off to FIN, there is nothing more you can do with it, apart from watching it. Regarding receiving planes, you can change level, DCT to waypoint or on heading, and speed from previous sector. But this is very much like real life. LLFIN is not going to ask BNN or LAM to put an aircraft on a specific speed, as that will be IntN’s job. The Automatic Controller does not learn or can be made smarter, it just does as programmed. So anyone reporting issues is useful. That info will be used in order to possibly tweak the data, so it stops you getting blamed for a loss of separation. There is a thread with what other info is helpful, and screenshots are always a good source of info.

Multiplayer is a tricky one as you’ll have seen in other threads. I don’t know anything about how that would/could be achieved, that is for the LC team to answer. I just understand the data and know a thing or 2 about ATC.

Hope this answer some of your questions.

Cheers, C

AidenCook

CloggyUk Hi cloggy and thanks for your answer. You explained it really well and when i have the time i can upload a few screenshots /recordings of when that happens.