[Wolves] Wolverhampton Visit

[Simon Morris]

On 03/07/06, Matthew Walster <matthew at walster.org> wrote:
>
> On 3 Jul 2006, at 13:02, Simon Morris wrote:
> >
> > What are "Virtual Air traffic controllers" and what do they do??
> >
>
> Imagine tens of thousands of flight sim pilots flying together.
> Imagine how congested places like Heathrow gets... So, virtual ATC
> comes in, and helps the pilots, just like in real life. I've been
> doing it for about 3 years, and really enjoy it - all the servers run
> Linux but the board don't like Open Source Software (they don't
> understand, even though i've ben pushing for years...)

So there is a huge multiplayer network for flight sim fans? Where are
the details of this?

I'm generally useless at flight sims but this sounds really
interesting. Have you ever crashed some jets together and how pissed
off were the "pilots"? :-)

>
> >> Yes, I am a sad git =)
> >
> > I'll wait to pass judgement on this :-)
>
> If you see me before LRL, in the hotel, and we haven't got to the
> beer drinking stage, come have a look - I'll be the one who looks
> like he's staring at a radar screen :S
>

Need screenshots - provide more info!

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