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Haiti declared a state of emergency, and the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince issued an alert calling on U.S. citizens to leave immediately on commercial or private aircraft, even with the airport ...
Compute! stated that "the sweat on your palms when you play Kennedy Approach is quite real", and approved of the documentation. It concluded that the game "is a fascinating, well-designed simulation for someone who wants to get a taste of what air traffic controllers do all day (and night) ...
Despite the cancellations, the airport had remained under heavy guard, with members of the country’s armed forces deployed inside, while Haiti National Police officers and soldiers patrolled the ...
It also includes a multi-voiced air traffic control simulator. The game's July 1990 release was snarled by a lawsuit from Microsoft, which claimed ownership of some of Sublogic's source code rights, and it was settled with a number of concessions on the part of Sublogic, most notably dropping the phrase "flight simulator" from all of its products.
In November, the US civil aviation regulator grounded all flights to Haiti for weeks, after three jets from US-based airlines were struck by bullets while flying over Port-au-Prince.
Air Traffic Chaos involves the player taking control of an airport control tower for a period. During this period the player needs to achieve a certain score based on orders given to planes and safe take offs and landings. The game has a total of 15 challenges. [38]
Armed groups control large swathes of Haiti’s capital city and forced the international airport in Port au Prince to shut down; after nearly three months, commercial flights resumed in mid-May.
TRACON is a series of game software programs that simulate an air traffic control environment on a personal computer. The games were originally sold by Texas-based Wesson International as an offshoot to their line of professional air traffic control simulation products. TRACON and RAPCON were released in 1989, and TRACON II was released in 1990.