Hi Evgeny,
You have an excellent basis to be the standard plugin for all x-plane users.
i like the traffic and the airport sound.
But mainly i anticipate your work as being the best choice for ATC over Laminar's own project, which they struggle with, obviously. I see you move ahead quickly and respond to users request with more flexibility. Hopefully you accept ideas for
content and visual design.
As you are asking for our wishes, and i think i am gonna thank you for that,
as there is indeed things all of us look into,
so let me provide a consolidated short list of the top-topics that i seek improvement for:
1. Nonstop ATC-voice chatter on all channels.
with current version of x-life, i see the traffic, but i hear nothing.
2. A.I. Voice must be more dominant. (louder, male/female variations, electronic background noise)
3. Approved Airports List should be changed into Approved Sections.
This includes 1 major airport and all the small airports in the respective area.
Why? i want to take off from a smaller airport with a GA-plane and still want to participate in the overall traffic scheme
generated by a neigbour major hub. Or i even intend to fly from a smaller (non-approved) airport into a mega-hub.
With current versions i must launch x-plane from a big airport only. This is so sad. big minus for x-life.
4. X-life seems not considering local roundtrips. G/A-planes, Seaplanes and Helicopters are not doing that kind of flightplan stuff like scheduled widebodies, nor they intend to fly by a given preplan. I want to take a helicopter and depart for a local flight, returning to same airport with no big adminstrative fuzz, but still being part of the overall traffic scheme.
5. traffic segments. from clearance to hold short on runway should be a closely accompanied process whereas appron, tower and ground services push in their messages to all participiants. Of course i should be able to hear them all if on the respective frequency.
6. Current version is a bit static. Overflying an airport (crossing TMA or CTR) seems not even included.
7. Please work on a General Aviation Logic that allows me to define circuits for smaller airplanes and helicopters.
AI-traffic should include helicopters and General Aviaition prop planes too, they should be free in flight path and not be treated as IFR widebodies flying a boring straight line from A to B. Just do like in real life, that's all we want.
8. Updating approved airport list drags down the whole system performance as it runs at the very initial sequence of X-Plane startup where
most resources are needed for the main simulator to load its 10GB-stuff. Why in the world would you set the time for updating x-life at this very critical time? I have never understood that complete nonsense.
Please, really please: Allow Updating by manual user action over the GUI-menu instead. Most users have low- to mid- systems,
and can not afford this kind of catastrophic system overload just for updating a plug-in. Please change this as highest priority. Updating both, x-plane version as well as updating airports list is a good idea to do over GUI, rather than downloading from an internet forum every time.
Thank you very very much for your dedicated work and for listening to requests.