Hey everyone,

Big update this week — and a few important things on the horizon. Let's start with the news.

🌎 US & Canada Sectors — Coming in the next few months Work on the North American airspace expansion is well underway. New sectors will feature full FAA phraseology and authentic radio voices. As the game continues to grow with significantly more content, the price will be adjusted to reflect the expanded scope in the coming weeks.

🧪 Beta Testers Wanted For the upcoming US sectors I'm looking for a small group of beta testers — ideally real-world FAA-licensed controllers, US-based pilots, or experienced ATC sim players familiar with US procedures. If that's you, drop a message in the Discord. Beta access via Steam beta branch with password.

Now to what just dropped:

🗺️ New Map-Based Sector Picker The list-based sector selection is gone. The picker now shows a Germany-centred map with all sectors as clickable polygons — coastlines, country borders, and TRAs drawn for context. Hovered sectors highlight while the rest dim, so the active region pops out at a glance.

🆕 New Sector — Gladbach (EDGB) The northern half of the former Koblenz airspace — covering the Düsseldorf / Cologne / Eifel area — is now playable. Frequency 134.625, callsign "Gladbach Radar". Standard floor at FL200 (lower than other sectors) with an extended-floor option down to FL180 — useful for descent practice into Düsseldorf and Cologne arrival flows. Koblenz (EDKB) keeps the southern half (Saarland / Luxembourg gateway).

🌐 New Neighbouring Sectors Northern Germany is filled in. Four new neighbour sectors appear on the map and in coordination dropdowns: EDBB Berlin/Brandenburg, EDHN Hannover, EDJE Jever, and EDHM Hamburg. Kassel has been split into EDPB Paderborn (west) and EDDN Dresden (east). All ready for coordination practice — playable versions coming in future updates.

🚨 Emergencies Expanded Two emergency types now fully implemented and pilot-driven end-to-end:

• Rapid Decompression (MAYDAY) — Aircraft initiates immediate emergency descent at 6,500 ft/min to FL100, holds heading until coordination approves the divert, then proceeds direct to the chosen airport.

• Medical Emergency (PAN PAN) — Aircraft continues its filed route at cruise. After coord approval, the divert airport is appended to the route so the flight transitions smoothly.

The pilot picks the closest of five German hubs (EDDF, EDDS, EDDK, EDDV, EDDM) as the divert target, states the request on frequency, and the coordination phone surfaces the divert so you can approve it.

✈️ NATO E-3 Sentry (AWACS) A NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry now flies an orbit pattern out of Geilenkirchen (ETNG), transiting Gladbach sector at FL310 every 3 hours. New aircraft type with realistic AWACS performance.

🚧 TRAs on the Radar Temporary Reserved Areas (military exercises, parachute operations, refuelling tracks) now render as dashed blue polygons with FL-range labels. Route your traffic around or under them.

📖 Documentation Hub New master documentation page with three fresh tutorials: Coord Phone for new players, Emergencies Guide (MAYDAY vs PAN PAN), and the HAM ↔ MUC flight schematic.

📊 More Traffic Increased overall traffic by 10%, with extra arrivals/departures across the new neighbouring sectors so cross-FIR coordination has more to work with.

⚙️ Quality of Life

• Vertical-speed indicator next to flight level on radar labels and strips (↑25 / ↓18 = 2,500 / 1,800 ft/min)

• Default display now starts with sectors and weather enabled

• Type-specific emergency ACK readbacks ("roger your Mayday" vs "roger your Pan Pan")

• Aircraft picker rows colour-matched to radar labels

• Detached coord-phone window stays fully in sync

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Climbing aircraft no longer level off early when accepted mid-climb

• Background radio hiss removed

• Mid-transit overflights now render in correct transferred-purple instead of grey

• Arrivals no longer linger as ghost targets near 5,000 ft

• Handed-off arrivals stop leaving phantom callsigns on the radar

Happy controlling!

Hey everyone,

This is a big one — three major features land in this update. Here's what's new.

📞 Coordination Phone You can now call adjacent sector controllers and the supervisor directly from a new phone panel in the radar view. Pick a sector to call, select an aircraft, and coordinate via a live chat transcript with realistic ATC phraseology — both sides rendered as chat bubbles.

Three coordination actions are available:

• REQREL — Request release for a pending inbound aircraft. Once the neighbor approves (~10–15 s), the aircraft calls you on frequency as normal.

• REQFL — Request a specific flight level for an inbound. An inline FL picker offers five options around the requested level; the AI approves in ~6 s and the aircraft arrives at your cleared level.

• REQDCT — Request a direct routing for a pending aircraft via an inline waypoint picker. The aircraft is rerouted before calling in on your frequency.

The panel is detachable for multi-monitor setups and pulses red when unread approvals are waiting.

This is just the beginning for the coordination system. Future updates will expand the phone with more actions — including downstream coordination with receiving sectors (e.g. negotiating flight levels or routings before handoff), emergency coordination with the supervisor when handling squawk 7700 or MAYDAY situations, and cross-sector weather coordination when storm fronts affect multiple sectors simultaneously. The goal is to make coordination feel like a core part of the job, not just a button press.

✈️ Cargo Flights Cargo carriers now appear as regular traffic across all routes: Cargolux, Lufthansa Cargo, Federal Express, UPS, Cathay Pacific Cargo, Korean Air Cargo, Giant Air and Box — all with correct weights, aircraft types, and spoken radio callsigns (Eurotrans, Cargolux, Federal, Giant, Korean Cargo, and more) - not yet all included :).

🎵 Background Music Nine original ambient tracks now play during sessions, shuffled each time so no two games sound the same. Music volume automatically ducks to 30% during pilot transmissions and while you hold push-to-talk, then fades back up smoothly. Separate volume controls for menu and in-game music are available in settings.

💬 Pilot Requests Pilots on long cruise legs will occasionally request a direct routing to a downstream waypoint ("any direct possible"). The request shows in the radio log with an RQ badge on the strip — respond with a DCT command or ignore it with no penalty.

⚠️ STCA Improvements Conflict alerts now clear immediately once aircraft start diverging. No more warnings for handed-off aircraft already outside your sector boundary. AI conflict resolution has been improved with better heading offsets and an 8 NM separation target.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Polish

• Weather deviation badge now clears immediately when you issue a heading, direct, or hold command

• Aircraft no longer flies back through a storm after handoff — smart-resume now scans the full route

• Microphone static noise muted until push-to-talk is held

• Flight strip callsigns now legible on blue-tinted incoming strips

• Coordination panel properly readable in modern color scheme

• Detached strip and phone windows open correctly on secondary monitors

• ESC menu spacing improved — buttons no longer overlap the controls reference

• EDDM inbounds no longer incorrectly appear in München sector

Happy controlling!