With the official release of the X-Plane 12 ATC System Manual, let’s take a moment to study it and translate it into Chinese along the way. (Actually, this is a paraphrase by ChatGPT)

Overview

The ATC (Air Traffic Control) system is designed to ensure your safety and that of other air users by coordinating aircraft movements and transmitting necessary information. Whether you are using a flight plan and flying along a predetermined route, or flying randomly, you can use ATC services. ATC is an indispensable component of almost all real-world flight scenarios. Please remember that to operate an aircraft in reality, you need a flight radio license and a pilot license.

Do not attempt to use X-Plane’s native ATC simultaneously with any other ATC or similar systems. These systems are not aware of each other’s operations.

Generally, at any given moment, your aircraft is the responsibility of only one controller. Once you begin interacting with ATC, your aircraft becomes associated with the corresponding controller. Once this association is established, unless explicitly instructed, do not arbitrarily change frequencies and leave the current controller. In this guide, this association is described as “ownership” — at any time, your aircraft will be “owned” by at most one controller. By convention, one of that controller’s frequencies should be set as the primary frequency of COM1.

The requests you can make or responses you can give depend on your current situation, including previous requests, the aircraft’s intended mission, and the type of controller you are currently speaking to. The simulation includes several different types of controllers, but not all airports will provide these services.

Types of Controllers

• Clearance Delivery: If an airport has a Clearance Delivery controller, you should contact them to submit your flight plan. This is an exception to the “ownership” rule; the Clearance Delivery controller does not “own” your aircraft because they only perform one function.
• Ground Control: This type of controller is responsible for providing clearances and instructions for ground operations, such as requesting and issuing taxi instructions. Until you taxi to the first