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Slightly OT: Are there any good modern ATC sims/games? I used to play one called Heathrow Air Traffic Control on the ZX Spectrum back in the day and it was surprisingly fun. (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=2270)

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EndlessATC is available for free for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dirgtrats.... and apparently for steam as well. It's edging towards the accurate end of the range of ATC games.

I only know of old MS-DOS game Tracon II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_II). I spent hours with it as a kid, directing tiny aircraft symbols around my screen.

It should be available for download at any decent abandonware website, and works flawlessly in Dosbox.

I wanted to ask the same question, although my memories are (only slightly) younger - I played Tower[0] on a 386 in the nineties.

[0]https://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/simulati...

This made me courius about the game and found that you can play it online on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/zx_Heathrow_International_Air_Tr...

Vatsim exists which allows you to be ATC for real players on flight simulator games (there are plugins for multiple)

Openscope[0] is a pretty good open source browser-based ATC sim.

[0]: https://www.openscope.co/

atc-sim.com, atcradarsim.com, VATSIM, IVAO (the latter two let you actually run ATC for flight sim players, live over the net)

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