Airside
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Airside is an air traffic control simulator for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. You work the traffic at any airport in the simulator: you sequence the departures, run the taxiways, and land the arrivals, and the aircraft do what you tell them.
Airside is an air traffic control simulator for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Every other product in the hangar puts you in the cockpit. This one puts you in the tower.
You work the whole field on one channel, the way a small field really works. You clear pushbacks, route aircraft across the taxiways, sequence departures and land arrivals, either by speaking on the microphone or by issuing from the strip. Every aircraft has a voice of its own and reads its clearance back.
The airport comes from the simulator itself, so any field it has, Airside can work. The voices, the speech recognition and the crews' AI run on your own machine.
People who fly in Microsoft Flight Simulator and have spent years listening to controllers, and people who would rather run the airport than fly across it. No aviation background is needed: the tutorial teaches the phraseology, and it can only teach sentences the product understands.
| The aircraft obey | An instruction changes what an aircraft does, and a wrong instruction shows you what a wrong instruction does |
| You can just talk | Say it on the microphone and it is heard. Or issue it from the strip. You choose which when a shift starts, and the choice is not permanent |
| Crews that answer back | Every aircraft has a voice of its own and reads its clearance back. The crews add a few words of their own, and they ask back when they did not catch you. Forty five voices, dealt so that one does not come back until the others have been heard |
| Any airport the simulator has | The gates, stands, taxiways and runways of the scenery you have installed, read from the simulator. Nothing is hand drawn for one field |
| It runs on your machine | The voices and the speech recognition are local. No cloud service, and no charge per word |
| Price | €34.90, until v1.0 (it was €49.90) |
| Supporter edition | €99.90. The same product, plus a vote on what is built next, new versions before release, support messages at the front of the queue, and a name in the credits. Nothing behind it changes what happens on the airfield |
| Licence | Perpetual. Not a subscription, no recurring charge |
| Computers | One at a time. Moving a licence to a different computer is something we do on request, once in any twelve months |
| Updates | Included, and not charged for |
| Sold by | Paddle.com Market Ltd as merchant of record |
Airside runs alongside Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. These are what it asks for on top of the simulator's own requirements.
| Operating system | Windows 10 or 11, 64 bit |
| Graphics | No additional requirement |
| Memory | 1 GB RAM |
| Storage | 2.5 GB, up to about 3.5 GB over six months of heavy daily use |
| Sound | A microphone for voice mode. Click mode is the other of the two and works fully without one |
| Internet | Required at start up |
| Download | A 50 MB setup, which downloads 2.2 GB |
Required: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, owned and installed. Airside controls the simulator and does not replace it.
Optional: FSLTL, as a source of airline models. Airside works fully with the simulator's own aircraft.
Sold at airsideatc.com, on simMarket, on Flightsim.to and on Contrail. Released on 10 September 2026. There is a free demo: one hour of everything except live traffic, on one computer, and the hour starts the first time Airside opens rather than when the licence is issued.
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Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=8vEZOvRNSIY. Recorded in the running product, not staged.
A six minute session: youtube.com/watch?v=x4ms7UdVjQg. Worked by voice, with the crews answering in their own words.
Logo. The mark alone and the mark with the name, each for a dark and for a light background. The pictures open at 4096 pixels and the SVG files scale to any size. All of them in one file: airside-logos.zip (94 KB).
Colours: orange #FF6B1A, white #ECEFF3, dark #0D0F12. The name is Barlow Condensed SemiBold in capitals, spaced wide, and is drawn as outlines in the files, so no font has to be installed.
Screenshots. Every one is the product as it runs. Each opens at full size.
Airside is made and published by the Airside team.
Airside is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation, Asobo Studio, or any airline, airport or aircraft manufacturer whose name or livery appears. Microsoft Flight Simulator is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
| Title | Airside |
| Genre | Air traffic control simulator |
| Platform | Windows 10 and 11, 64 bit |
| Requires | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 |
| Publisher | Self published |
| Sold through | Paddle.com Market Ltd, merchant of record |
| Price | €34.90, €99.90 supporter |
| Licence | Perpetual, updates included |
| Release date | 10 September 2026 |
| Languages | English |
| Download size | 2.2 GB, and 2.5 GB on disk |
| Website | airsideatc.com |
