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Me and my friend want to practice with each other on the controller role for our upcoming tests to be an actual controller.

The problem is we are new to the controller thing and we dont have the instractor role to run sweatbox for training.

Is there any way we can start our own server, where one is acting as the controller and one as the pilots (controlling the simuleted planes)?

We want this to be private so we dont bother the instrators that use sweatbox.
just between us two.

thank you

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Yes, you can, but it’s a lot of work for something that probably won’t be very useful for you. You will have to create the simulator files by yourself and you probably won’t even know if one of you did things correctly or not, as neither of you is a controller yet.

If you decide you still want to go for it: EuroScope comes with a built-in FSD server that can be used for exactly the thing you want to use it for. You can find an explanation at https://www.euroscope.hu/wp/built-in-simulator/ (make sure you also read essentially everything else on simulations in that manual, you’re going to need it to create and run the sim files).
The license key can be found at https://www.euroscope.hu/license/PublicVatsimLicence.txt

TL;DR: Don’t bother, your mentors will train you.

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Hi, I try to understand how to get into a session with this FSD server and i cant figure it out. can you explain a bit more on how to do it? thank you
and btw, the mentors have a pretty long waiting list so it will take time. thats why we want to practice by ourselves. plus, we have friends that are controllers so they know whats wrong and right.

thanks for the help

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  • start the FSD and EuroScope
  • in the EuroScope connect dialogue set connection mode to “Start Sweatbox simulator session”, Server to 127.0.0.1 (you can type into that field), uncheck “connect to VATSIM”, select a scenario file under Simulator server, fill out the rest of the connect dialogue as per usual (Rating has to be S3 or above, the server doesn’t care what your actual rating is, just set it to S3)
  • Click connect
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hi, thank you very much for the help so far.
i did everything good and i just have one last problem.
i need to connect my friend as the controller and i am the instactor.
how do i connect him to the session? thanks

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Not really a sweatbox question, but the easiest way is to use something like Hamachi (or a different VPN client) to join a common VPN. Other options (like port forwarding or other NAT tricks) are also possible, I’ll leave this question to the network guys.

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All the ports that you have to forward to your machine is listed here: https://www.euroscope.hu/wp/connection-features/

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The license doesn’t work for me. I’ve changed the file ending to .lic and then chose it in EuroScope FSD but I always get the error code: “Invalid license: SignatureInvalid”, what should I do about it?

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Did you remove the “LICENSE:” from the beginning of the file? if not: do that. (so the file should start “tga[…]”)

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Thanks, works now!

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Thanks @1357290 our controller server also not work. Which page you recommended help me.

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Your best shot is probably explaining what exactly you did and what issues you’re experiencing either on here or on the vatsim.net Discord.

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I also face same problem. But not solve yet.

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What problem are you facing exactly, and what did you try so far to solve it?

15

Hi. Is it possible to generate license for 5 PC?

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Is it solved yet, please let me know.

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Hi, I know its been a while, but i tried back than to connect via hamatchi, and i couldent connect didnt know what to do even with youtube and everything.

Can you explain how to connect?
Thank you

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Nope, I’m not a network guy. My answer wouldn’t be any better than you just googling how to do it. I’ll leave this one to one of the network experts on here.

@Allene: Without an explanation of what you did and what happened it will be very hard to help you.