Feelthere ERJ-145

[jrpilot]

Yes mainly when landing but they do tell sometimes if the airports vincinity is crowed..They mainly vector you around to put you in a "pattern"... If you want to see how is is really done do this..

go to Passurs website of Boston Logan
http://www4.passur.com/bos.html
and also go to LIVEATC.NET and scroll about half way down the page and click on Boston Approach/Departure you will here boston vectoring aircraft all around and you can see the aircaft doing these manuvers
http://liveatc.net/feedindex.php

I am a huge fan of the site..I would love to here some Europe chat..but "You" have certain restriction which limit ATC talk....

[Nexus]

[quote]ATC can tell you what speed to fly?

[tomh]

ATC in real life uses speed as a tool to maintain separation between aircraft, and it works quite well.  Just imagine in a busy terminal environment how difficult it would be to maintain a longitudinal separation of 5 miles if every aircraft was a different airspeeds.  Just like vertical, longitudinal and lateral separations, speed adjustment is a valuable tool available to controllers.

[jrpilot]

I wish FS put in some sort of REAL atc..instead of this sh*ty one they have given us

[Nexus]

Are you complaining?

[jrpilot]

Awesome it seems to be some sort of vatsim? ..ecxept this is way easier..also I noted on the tutorial that it asked for a departure and arrival runway...how should I put a arrival into my departing airport?

Thanks

[Nexus]

the arrival aircrafts are already flying on their assigned STARs (which are not assigned by you), but you must choose which runway they will land on

Edit: Of course you have to vector them and clear them for approach etc.
It's great fun though  :)

[beefhole]

and also go to LIVEATC.NET

Yes, I've been there, and I've listened to Boston approach.  It's awesome, but I've only done it once.  Gotta get around to it more often!