Updates...

V4.Beta updates...

• NEW! VFR can now be very close to reality thanks to the use of advanced Taxi charts when flying Region Flight Plans. Advanced means that Taxi charts can now contain extra informations like TMA(s) information (size, ceilings and floors), FIS or region controls
• NEW! Left hand or right hand runways can be edited
• NEW! Missed approach charts are supported (Not tested for quite a long!) 
• NEW! Different kind of reports avoilable (VFR): position, altitude, radial, when leaving area, after a given time, traffic pattern (VFR).
• NEW! Reverse fligth plan check-box allow to fly reverse a fligth plan without extra edit (not used a lot, probalbly buggy!) 
• NEW! AFIS is now supported with different behaviour than actual TOWER control
• NEW! Tens of features here and there (sometimes no bug free yet!!):
• ATC can close the airport temporarily and cancel your approach
• ATC can ask fo a go around at the last moment
• ATC can ask you to wait at a holding pattern if you are to high above the expected altitude
• ATC can advise you of restricted/prohibited airspaces
• Etc.
• NEW! Synthesized voices can be mixed with radio effects for more realism
• When requesting GUIDANCE (new request), the ATC gives you precise vectors to the next checkpoint until you leave its airspace.
• The ATC talks to other planes but!... "virtual" planes at this stage! I mean these planes are randomly generated within EasyATC for communications but not for visual display. Their requests are randomly generated depending on their state in the flight plan (take-off, landing, leaving area, etc.). Requests and clearances are not accurate at all. It's just to bring some life and being more realistic: you have now to ba aware of the callsigns to react when the ATC calls is for you!
• The ATC can be paused if you need keyboard input for another app for example
• Some warnings are displayed when saving charts to avoid many issues when using the flight plan
• Top-of-descent and Awake ATC requests added. No problem if you don't use these requests. I just added to make ATC conversations matching what happens in IFR flights as can be seen in this video
• Flight plans can now be edited by "recording"the plane positions in the X-Plane map!
• When flying a Region flight plan and asking for landing to a given airport, EasyATC dynamically update the flight plan with the most appropriate STAR from the available arrival charts. The controller then ask to proceed to the entrance waypoint of the STAR.
• When auto-filling a flight plan message boxes are displayed only when necessary.
• When saving a flight plan, a message box is displayed if something wrong or something that could downgrade the flight experience is detected on the waypoints. A Help button opens the appropriate web page in the EasyATC blog to help in solving the issue.
• ATC sometimes makes mistakes (and rectify immediatly, of course!). This looks pointless but when heard, gives definitly a sense of humanity to the synthesize voices!
• ATC sometimes ask the pilot to repeat his last request!
• Not necessary to merge the STAR, SID or Taxi charts in the flight planner: pick a "Cruise" flight from a given fix or navaid to another (usually SID exit and STAR entrance) and EasyATC automatically loads appropriate charts to fulfill the flight plan by searching among all the available charts.
• After landing, if the ATC is busy (or randomly if not busy), he asks for transponder standby
• When a holding short in the Taxi chart is close to the middle of the runway, the ATC asks to backtrack the appropriate runway
• Now voices sound like radio voices. Better immersion for sure! Blended radio noises are separated wav files that can be customized. The radio effect can be disabled.
• "Microsoft Speech" synthetic voices now work (only "System Speech" voices was working in previous versions). 
• When filled in the first waypoint of a STAR chart, the Custom message field  is used as the name of the approach when the ATC says the expected landing message.
• Random altitude changed by the ATC was full of bugs (too often, yo-yo effect, was breaking SID and STARS, was sometimes giving a too low altitude so that the communication was lost!, etc...). Now fully debugged
• DME arc in IFR was pretty buggy too (unconsistent out of the track message, bad headings, not enough error margin, etc...). All seems fixed now.
• Alternate waypoints/shortcuts was completely broken! Still some hidden bugs probably but much better now...
• In IFR the ATC was asking for reports too often
• Some fixes in STAR update in IFR flights: was changing too often, better processing of the wind direction when picking-up the appropriate STAR
• Fixes in Altitude change request.
• All states and messages are written in a Log.txt file (reseted each time the ATC is enabled). Nice thing to help me in debugging your failed flights!
• In SIDS or STARS, the ATC can now ask for speed changes
• The voice speed rate changes in some circumstances (see Voices section)
• All the constants of the program are now customizable.
• Autofill of the cruise altitude in the flight planner now fits precisely the flight rules (was sometimes wrong)
• Listening to an ATIS does not reset the last contacted ATC!
• Hundreds of bugs fixed... and new ones unfortunatly!

Released V2.3 updates...

• Flight planner - Invalid fequencies are automatically fixed (in previous versions last digit was always "0". For example 118.020 is now 118.025)
• You can now prevent the ATC voices to match the language you selected. This allow EasyATC to use all the installed voices instead of using always the same one(s).
• ATC can sometimes change the cruise altitude and ask for a climb or a descent
• The ATC can repeat his last message even after a "did you copy?" message
• ATC gives the QNH only when flying below the transition layer or when descending from above to below transition layer.
• Better processing of the waypoints to avoid U-turns to move back on track while the next waypoint is pretty much straight forward.
• New request : after a landing, the pilot have now to say that the runway is vacated (RunwayExit request) before the Tower asks to contact ground.
• Transit out request can be used when taxiing: in this case, the pilot asks for leaving the frequency.
• When the NavAid1 contains the "ILS" string ("ILS" or "ILS N2" or whatever...) and the Freq 1 field is filled, the ATC gives the ILS frequency when saying the expected landing message.
• Emergency bugs fixed and better handled by the ATC
• In Taxi charts, you can now put the Identifier you want for the holding points (but the first line must remain the name of the airport and be APRON Type). Custom message is not used anymore. See Taxi chart section for more detailed information...
• Tens of bugs fixed...

Released V2.2 updates...

• Taxiing is now availale!
• Play sound in flight planner is back
• Say again request bug fixed
• Pilot's voice can be muted
• Pilot's auto-readback can be disabled. You must press a key to readback
• Take-off runway depends on the wind direction
• Alternate airports
• "Regional Flight Plan": an easy way to have a simplified ATC without editing a real flight plan for the guys who want more simplicity! 
• Airfield traffic pattern: when approaching an airport, press the Landing Pattern key and the pilot will talk the expected phraseology depending on the position and heading of your plane (downwind, cross wind, left or right hand, etc.)

Released V2.1 updates...

• When using a key for requesting, the key input work anyway in others applications (the key event was stopped in EasyATC in version 2.0)
• Help icons open this web site
• Coordinates converter is opened only when double-clicking on coordinates columns
• Coordinates are in the right columns when importing fms file in flight planner

Released V2.0...

• User inputs
• VFR and VFR SPECIAL flights
• Better usage of synthetic voices
• Simplified flight planner
• Smarter ATC
• Customizable languages

Next planned updates...
Planned for V4.0. By priority...

• Refine airfield infos in Taxi charts (ILS...)
• Make the ATC talking to other planes
• Line-up on runway before take-off
• Expect visual approach message
• Confirm cleared to land and/or approach
• ATC complain when landing on the bad runway
• Taxi code clean-up

Flight planning

• Be able to fly without any flight plan by loading X-Plane airports data dynamically.

X-Plane dataref access

• Something more relevent that txt files...