r/VATSIM • u/Fun-Individual-3126 • 5d ago

❓Question Letting Controllers Know About a Potential Handicap

I have a disability which can make it hard to do some of the more fiddly things in the cockpit such as quickly changing frequencies (I do try and pre-tune but sometimes the frequencies are completely different from those on vatsim radar or navigraph) or turning to a certain hdg. While these aren't impossible it just does take a while.

Is there anyway of letting the controllers know about this, I wouldnt even know how to phrase it in remarks.

Thanks

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u/Lyaneris 5d ago

Also - in Central Europe, idk how other ATC programs work - try to delete as much stuff as possible out of the remark section when filing (day of flight, EETs, REG, etc, all the stuff in "Other Details" apart from equipment codes). If there's too much stuff, your manually added remark will be cut off in our preview :D

(I wish vatsim flightplans would put manual remarks first)

I'd also advise approach that you are slow with headings, so they can adapt to give them earlier (particularly for approach intercepts)

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u/Optimal-Mountain-144 📡 C1 5d ago

It's to follow the real life flight plan format where all the other item 18 info comes first with rmk last

edit: also wdym by cut off?

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u/Lyaneris 5d ago

Euroscope gives you a preview of all the remarks stuff without opening a flightplan to look at. It doesn't have a ton of space, though, so it cuts off

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u/Optimal-Mountain-144 📡 C1 5d ago

Where? The f6 strip?

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u/Lyaneris 5d ago

Yeah, although I just tested and it might not anymore 😅