omniatc

Yet another ATC simulator.

... surely there are many features I want to implement, but let's not make it a vaporware for now. Nevertheless, for those who want to contribute, I want to leave room for the following potential features, which may significantly affect design decisions:

• Emergencies/anomalies:
  • No GNSS: Aircraft must be within the range of at least two DMEs or one VOR+DME to navigate in the event of GNSS failure or interference
  • No RNAV: RNAV-incapable aircraft can only navigate directly towards navaid radials
  • Pilot incapacitation: Aircraft may be uncontrollable and forcefully enter auto-land mode
  • Engine failures: Aircraft with malfunctioning engines have reduced thrust and may be unable to climb/maintain altitude
• Operations:
  • Visibility: Landing in low visibility may result in go-arounds if ILS minima exceeds visibility
  • ILS interference: Lining up planes in ILS critical area may increase visibility requirement
  • Ground: Give taxi instructions to planes on ground
  • Takeoff: Planes may take off at the middle of the runway if conditions permit
• Variations:
  • Aircraft types: There may be non-plane aircraft such as helicopters
  • Ground vehicles: There may be ground vehicles requesting clearance for runway crossing
  • Moving waypoints: Waypoint positions including runways may move, e.g. aircraft carrier landing
• Gameplay
  • World generation: Terrain may be randomly generated to produce natural altitude minima (implemented as a heightmap)
  • Noise abatement: Impact on game score when planes operate at low altitude near populated areas (implemented as a heatmap)
  • Fuel efficiency: Impact on game score when issuing:
    • altitude/speed increase instructions to arrivals
    • altitude/speed decrease instructions to departures
  • Expedite altitude change: Impact on game score
• Other features:
  • Mobile and web support
  • Spectation/Multiplayer: The UI may render objects simulated from a remote host not managed under crate::level
  • 3D camera: unlikely to implement, but code under crate::level should convey all necessary 3D information