"ATS Flight Plan" instead of "ATC Flight Plan"

SimBrief Feature Requests
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Hey guys / SimBrief team,

I wanted to suggest a minor terminology tweak to make things 100% accurate to real-world. I noticed the system currently uses the term “ATC Flight Plan,” but legally and technically, it should actually be “ATS Flight Plan” (Air Traffic Services Flight Plan).

I know it sounds like a bit of a nitpick, which it is, but under ICAO (Annex 2 and Doc 4444), Air Traffic Services (ATS) covers Air Traffic Control (ATC) , but it also includes Flight Information Service (FIS) and Alerting Service. Since flight plans are regularly filed just to get flight info or alerting services outside of controlled airspace, it’s not strictly an “ATC” document.

It’s a really small detail, but updating it from “ATC” to “ATS” would perfectly align SimBrief with standard international aviation terminology.

Thanks for all the great work on the tool!

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Hi, thanks for the report.

For now this probably won’t be changed. As a general rule, we are mostly concerned with replicating real-world airline flight plans. The reality is that most LIDO-based real-world OFPs still use the term “ATC Flight Plan”, even though this might not be strictly correct.

Perhaps real-world OFPs will be updated to use the correct term in the future, and if so, we would update SimBrief accordingly at that time.

Best regards,