Right now you can only assign buttons to ATC choices 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc. This means we would need to assign 10 buttons for all the different ATC options.
I would like to see a way to assign a button to “ATC select” then ATC selection up or down. I would love to see it work like the following.
Press the ATC select button and this will focus the ATC respsone 1. Then you can press up or down to select the different options, then press ATC select button again to activate the focused option. This would only require 3 buttons to be mapped for full control of ATC.
You could even go one further and add an option to minimize/maximize the ATC window on selection.
C44M0: Buttons are not the same thing as keys. No reason why there can’t be two alternative methods in the bindings - there are for some other functions.
I agree - on a joystick it would be better to have up, down, send and toggle the window. I’d be happy to give up a hat switch for that. Then again, I use TrackIR, so don’t need a precious hat switch for looking around.
I would personally love to be able to fly the sim without using the mouse or keyboard at all (especially the mouse). It really detracts from the immersion. I have a joystcik with numerous buttons as well as a button box with button and rotary encoders. There are numerous things that cannot be mapped to buttons as well as some of those thing seems to not be bindable in completely efficient way. Hence why I made this Wishlist item.
i have buttons 1-9 for custom views and '+1-9 for atc (hold the ’ button thats next to the 1 key on the top row of the key pad and press 1-9 depending on your selection). most of the commonly used atc selections are on the low numbers so you can use one hand to press both keys.
it works well for me
Cannot see why this has not yet been addressed as the proposed solution only requires 2 additional keybinds, a scroll and a select and would not impact at all on other users who want to do keyboard/mouse selection.
At present I have one keybind to toggle ATC and 4 mapped on a hat switch to cover the first 4 replies to ATC. So this proposal frees up 2 keybinds and would make the extensive Nearest Airport pages and VFR departures a lot more user friendly and efficient to yoke/joystick users.
Quadruple this. I just got my new honeycomb yoke and throttle and half the ■■■■ switches on the throttle have to be dedicated to the stupid atc!
For something that is such a clunky procedure in the game, it is very weird that they won’t add this in. Much aside from the issue with wasted switches and buttons, it is just idiotic to try and click around with the mouse and keyboard during the takeoff ascent while the ATC is yelling at you to acknowledge their transmission.
I have 2 keys on my yoke for ATC.
one toggles the ATC window and the other sends a keypress for each of the first 4 options (the ones I use most. 1 press = option 1, 2 presses = option 2.
I use Joy2Key to set up the buttons. I could add the rest of the ATC options by using a 3rd button as a ‘shifter’ but, as I say, I find I mostly use the first 4 ATC options.
I also use Touch Portal on an ipad for other key presses.
