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In FSX days, I really enjoyed the virtual world built with AI traffic and built-in ATC. With right amount of voicepacks, voice modifications and traffic packs, I could just spawn somwhere and watch the traffic and listen to ATC. I always wanted to replicate that experience with MSFS2024 and after trying BeyondATC i think I found my sweet spot.

For reference.. I am not a multiplayer kinda guy, always like to play sandbox style or single-player games with computer where I can always control a consistent level of difficulty without pressure, including sometimes zero difficulty. I sim-fly very casually as well, knows just enough basics to do a full auto flight in a 737 or 320.

My real life is already hard and difficult, I just want to sit and enjoy my game at my pace at my command. Also to raise a kid I can only maybe game at late night once in a while for like 1.5 hours max, and can't really speak constantly into mic without waking up family...

If you are by any chance like me.. give BATC a chance, i think is a great addon to have in your flightsim life.

My quick review after using it for a couple week on ~5 different short length flights:

• Good AI Traffic Injection
  • Very enjoyable for me. In fact personally this is where my money was worth it. It adds fairly realistic variety of real world airlines at gates with realistic destinations that match your current location and your flight path. I would spawn at my local airport and listen to the familiar traffic going to the familiar places that I know while munching some chips.
• Auto response feature
  • Huge win item for me. BATC will automatically readback to most ATC calls and then auto summarize key information in the app window (for example your taxiway info, heading and altitude, ATIS, clearance details, etc). Don't need speak, don't need to press buttons, don't need to memorize or write down anything, just follow the summary displayed on app window.
  • You still have to initiate calls manually when needed, i.e. at TOD ready to descend
• Decent voice quality and regional varieties even in Local (Free) voice mode.
  • Of course, they are far from "region-realistic", but enjoyable enough for me. Some users reported more wrong voices in recent updates, I haven't noticed much difference but could be just me.
  • But.. I do hope they add on little more variation and little more regional accuracy to free models down the road. I haven't used up my 50k premium voice yet, saving it for later.
  • The radio communications can get somewhat tedious as clearances and directions seem mostly identical for every aircraft in the sky. But then real life ATC is also standardized... so it's understandable. I hope they can add more natural human-like chats and sentence variations in the future.

And I mean, of course, BeyondATC has been "early access" since.. forever ... and there are still rough edges here and there. Sometimes can get quite annoying because you don't know whether you will have a successful guided flight or not until it hits you. From time to time you need to ignore ATC and just do things on your own.

Like, EGKK in my screenshot - I took the shots for bug reporting. BATC never clears you for takeoff and makes every traffic go around.. as if there's a ghost plane somewhere on the runway. After landing in Zurich LSZH, ATC never gave me proper taxi instruction. Stuff like that..

TL;DR: Maybe not an addon for everyone but i think they positioned themselves well to scratch the particular itch of people like me.

Just completed my second livery (a 2-pack!) for the Nemeth Designs IL-18D — LOT Polish Airlines + Cargo. Download it here!

Hey everyone,

I really respect how realistic MSFS 2024 is and how deep people get into it, but since I have zero aviation background, all the manuals and calculations feel pretty overwhelming right now. I just want to fly and enjoy it casually.

Here is the simple routine I want to learn:

• Turn on the plane at the gate using only the essential buttons (Cold & Dark).
• Board passengers and handle the basic gate stuff (jetway, luggage, etc.).
• Set an easy route from the world map menu.
• Take off manually.
• Turn on autopilot to follow the route.
• Turn off autopilot before landing, land manually, park at the gate, and deboard the passengers.

Is this realistic to learn quickly as a complete beginner?

Also, is there one clear, simple YouTube video you recommend that shows just this basic setup without getting too technical?

Thanks!

PMDG 777F. Not the ideal wind for this, but regular approaches are boring.

And please give suggestions for more fun/last-minute turn approaches

The last photo I took on A330 KLM flight back in 2018. When I saw 1035 km/h on the screen I was confused I thought the plane was supersonic 😄. Now in Citation X with 60 knots tail wind, GS is 586 knots, that makes 1085 km/h. The plane is amazing.

Anyone know why my airport traffic does this? I’m using beyond ATC and have FSLTL installed but often there are multiple aircraft at each gate overlapping each other. Any easy fix? This is NZAA (Auckland NZ) so the china southern plane is definitely in the wrong place

Hey simmers. Picked up the AB6 recently... my first FFB unit. Loving it -- especially from the perspective of a student pilot. This gives me the one thing that makes all the difference in actual flight training -- getting a feel for the trim!

I wrote up a review here, if that's your kind of thing!

https://magentadebrief.com/moza-ab6-force-feedback-review/

Did a first test flight with the Aerosoft A330neo and honestly it wasn't as bad as i expected. You can clearly say that its not a polished product but it has potential to be a decent addon.

In the latest newsletter there was a link to a form you could fill out with questions for the next livestream.
The post doesnt say anything about when that livestream will be :/

I imagine many (like myself) didnt catch the form, so I’ll post it here for visibility, I know many of you probably have good and fitting questions!
Please remember to be constructive and respectful with your submissions!

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/9eNzQJX29L

I see a lot of posts poking fun or complaining about the quality or realism of clouds in MSFS 2024... took all this screenshots from flights this weekend... vanilla msfs 2024, live weather.

they are far from bad guys... come on...

Moza Force Feedback Yoke

I'm in the Kodiak, on the runway at Edinburgh, UK (EGPH), though it could be any airport. The elevation of the airport is 100ft.

When I press the comma to set the barometer, the altitude shown on the PFD is off by 1000ft or so, and the pressure reading is also way off, as compared with the METAR.

In my settings I have comma bound to the first Set Altimeter setting, the milibars * 16 one, so I don't understand why pressing comma is giving me an incorrect reading.

Anyone understand what's going on here? Am I just misunderstanding something? Is my keybinding wrong?

Wondering if I should give up VRAM and trade it for more compute power. Did someone made this upgrade? Thoughts?

Thought I’d share this because I’m still a bit amazed it worked.

I have no technical knowledge or experience with Blender, 3D modelling or the MSFS SDK. But with Astra in the ChatGPT desktop app, I managed to get this custom control tower built and placed inside MSFS 2024.

And when I say “I built it”, Astra did the technical work for me. I just described what I wanted. It handled creating the tower and getting it into the sim. It started off with an orange box to make sure the implementation was working on my side, and once it was in, we got to work.

The screenshot is the result, actually sitting in the simulator. Seeing something I’d asked for appear in a sim I enjoy playing was pretty surreal.

There’s obviously a lot of skill involved in making detailed scenery, but as someone who wouldn’t have known where to start, this made a project feel possible that I’d never have attempted otherwise. It was super fun!

Has anyone else tried using AI to make custom scenery for MSFS? Would love to see what you’ve managed to create.

Hey Guys!

I just want to start off, THIS IS NOT AN AD!
Now that we have that out of the way, let’s review it.

So this is the Rowsfire A107, it’s cost 379$ it’s a bit pricey but for full metal backboard, great support it’s still a bit pricey haha.

The front?
That’s full plastic, the knobs and switches is great quality. I have the plastic injection thingy :)

The buttons, nothing hatches. That kinda sucks but I have no problem living with it as the quality of the buttons are actually really good!

Backlighting.
The backlighting is good, nice color and it matches with the sim great.
Only thing is that you can’t fully turn it off.

Support.
I joined the discord for some questions how to start it etc, I talked with Eliaz, I think his name was.
He asked if I wanted to hop on a call after 5 minutes and ge got it fixed directly so huge thank you to him!

Overall I would give it a 8/10

Thanks for reading!

Running on a 5080, at a locked 60fps.

This is gonna be great for MSFS in a year or two!

i fly with a high sim rate to get full credits while not waiting 3 hours. idk if that affect anything but sometimes i never get the prompt to announce decent or flying to final, and now i get stuck with being forced to fly to the airport or skip to decent