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VATSIM XSquawkBox for X-Plane Released

by Mr. Flight on December 2nd, 2005

After lots of hard work from Ben Supnik, XSquawkbox has been released. Having been one of the beta testers for many, many months I can say that this is indeed a very nice product.

For those of you not familiar, this is a plugin for the X-Plane flight simulator that allows you to use the microphone and speaker to talk with virtual air traffic controllers in real time. And don’t forget your radio phraseology because the virtual controllers are just as demanding/good as the real ones!

• Integrated voice.
• Automatic voice room tuning with the com1 frequency.
• Weather from VATSIM.
• Integrated UI: the plugin appears entirely within the flight sim.
• Easy installation: install the plugin and a new menu appears for XSquawkBox - no other apps to start or clutter.
• Minimal UI: where possible things like transponder and radio tuning are done with the real x-plane panel and not a separate UI.
• CSL: XSquawkBox has a CSL format for adding additional models to XSB’s vocabulary.

You can grab your copy from XSquawkBox.

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