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FS-ATC 3.1 is an air-traffic-control companion for Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 on the Macintosh, written by Miika Asunta. It runs in the background, watches your aircraft via undocumented Apple events, and talks you through taxi, departure, approach, and landing as if a real controller were on frequency.

How it works

FS-ATC reads position, heading, altitude, and speed from Flight Simulator and replies with clearances and instructions. Apple's Speech Manager lets the controllers speak the messages aloud; on machines without speech, the same calls appear as on-screen text.

Built-in databases

Version 3.x ships with internal databases of VORs, center boundaries, and a curated set of airports, and introduces fully automatic ATC from the gate at your departure airport all the way to the gate at the destination. Controller files made for earlier versions of FS-ATC still load.

Licensing

FS-ATC 3.1 is shareware at US$10. Registered users receive documentation for authoring their own controller and route files. The author notes that messages and routes are fictional and not the work of an actual pilot.