London Control is an authentic and highly realistic simulation of real-world air traffic control.
Designed for the personal computer or laptop, it covers the airspace of EGTT, EGTC and EGPX, using advanced radar and flight data processing functions that are found in real-world ATC simulators.
An updated version concurrent with the latest real-world AIRAC is now available, either as a first-time purchase consisting of the base installation program along with quarterly updates until the end of 2025, or as quarterly updates to your existing installation if you already have the base installation program.
The simulator uses current AIRAC data and real-world airspace, mirroring the sectors and procedures used in real-world ATC.
Since June 2023, we have worked to bring the simulator up-to-date and here are details of just some of the work we have done:
The biggest task was the implementation of West Airspace Deployment (WAD), which created Systemised Airspace and Free Route Airspace in the south-west of England. Airways and waypoints had to be removed, new ones were introduced, and levels had to be updated to ensure correct coordination with adjacent sectors. The expansion of DIRECT routings required an extensive testing program, and this single aspect of the update took several months to complete as we worked through correcting over 5,000 flight plan and route errors.
We also had to check sector boundary dimensions and coordinates as some had changed slightly, and there were waypoint changes and level band amendments for certain sector blocks.
Numerous SIDs and STARs had either changed or been removed or replaced altogether, and these had to be incorporated into the various program files and checked against sector coordination.
The call radii and menu layouts also had to be amended to ensure there was no interference with the revised sector layouts. (There are probably some that are still a little offset as we are in a phase of continuous testing and amendment.)
All of this had to be cross-checked and, where necessary, modified in the various London Control background files.
We added many new flight plans, bringing the total traffic availability to nearly twenty thousand – which includes crossing and military traffic. All of these had to be checked against the Standard Route Document and the Route Availability Document to ensure compliance, and where errors were found they had to be manually corrected. This was another time-consuming process as flight plans had to be plotted along routes that sometimes terminated outside London Control geography, so waypoints had to be added and correlated with adjacent sectors to ensure correct interaction.
With the addition of new flight plans, some callsigns were not being announced and these had to be introduced manually. (We know there are still some that do this, but we are continuing to work on these to ensure that where a trigraph is associated with a callsign, the correlation is made and the sound system announces it, instead of using the phonetic alphabet.)
The sound system is the next major piece of work that we have already embarked on, and amendments (when they are ready) will be published as patch files. The sound system is proving to be as big a part of the project as West Airspace Development was, but we’ll get there. This piece of work has so-far proved to be financially restrictive as we do not want to pass the costs on to London Control users, so we continue to try and find an avenue that works but is not inordinately expensive.
We kept prices for London Control in-line with what they were originally over twenty years ago, but with the increased costs of PayPal and other charges, we have reluctantly had no choice other than to revise our prices for 2025:
• The base installer and quarterly updates until the end of 2025 can be obtained for £43.95
• Quarterly updates until the end of 2025 can be obtained for £40.65
These are the prices after conversion from your local currency; if you are not in the UK please ADD any charges before your payment.
We accept payment by PayPal to email hq@londoncontrol.com
The new website (https://londoncontrol.com) and user forum (https://forum.londoncontrol.com) are where you can register a username and password that will give you access to purchase, and to create and respond to forum posts.
Please use the forum to post your observations, share useful tips, suggest answers to questions from other users, invite your friends, and give feedback on the latest version, from which we can continue to develop London Control.
Data updates will be released quarterly but will be cumulative, so all AIRAC updates will be included in each release.
We believe London Control is the foremost air traffic control simulator of its kind and are pleased to be able to maintain it and continue the excellent work started by Dale McLoughlin.
For further information email hq@londoncontrol.com, or to obtain a copy visit the website.
Thank you for your continued support of London Control.
