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You are the RPV air traffic controller for your area. An RPV is a Remotely Piloted Vehicle. Since the aircraft are pilotless, you must not only keep an eye on what is happening in your air space but you must also land the aircraft yourself.

Not only do you have to make sure the RPV's in your area are landed safely, you must also make sure that aircraft waiting in the departure area take off and leave your control area safely.

Depending on the skill level (five are available) you're assigned a differing number of inbound and outbound aircraft. Level 1 gives two inbound and one outbound. At higher levels, as many as fifteen aircraft can be in the air at any one time and it becomes very difficult to avoid one of those mid-air collisions you hear about in the news.

All communication with the computer is made via the joystick which does lead to a few problems as Dragon joysticks are not the easiest to use. The slightest movement can make a lot of difference. For example when you want to *read* the heading, altitude and speed of an aircraft you have to put the cursor within three pixels of the aircraft. Half the time you'll miss and the aircraft in question will shoot over the end of the runway before you have chance to alter its course!

Air Traffic Control is a very difficult and exciting game and is recommended to anyone who fancies causing their own air disaster.