This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Nick
I’ve been flying and coding for a while, and always wondered why there’s no open, offline-capable ATC system for flight simulators. So I started building one.
It’s called OpenSquawk — an open-source AI air traffic controller for MSFS and X-Plane.
Tech stack:
- C#/.NET plugin bridge to read/write sim state
- Node/Nuxt web interface for configuration and debug tools
- ASR + NLP + TTS pipeline (Whisper + custom intent parser + local voice synthesis)
It’s early stage but already handles standard phraseology and context-aware clearances.
I’m posting this because maybe someone else here is into flight simulation and code — the intersection is surprisingly niche. If that’s you, I’d love to compare notes, share architecture ideas, or just nerd out about approach vectors and LLM latency.
Repo’s here: https://codeberg.org/OpenSquawk/OpenSquawk
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Nick