Well i know the purpose of it in real life but whats the purpose of it in MSFS other than being handed off from one controller to the next from time to time?

I didn't receive a single traffic information, QNH change or anything relevant when flying cross country since release.

24 minutes ago, ThomseN_inc said:

Well i know the purpose of it in real life but whats the purpose of it in MSFS other than being handed off from one controller to the next from time to time?

I didn't receive a single traffic information, QNH change or anything relevant when flying cross country since release.

😅

I guess that we could ask: "what's the purpose of ATC in this sim?". I see it as a revamped version (with a new UI) of the crappy FSX ATC: it was already bad in the mid 2000s.

But don't worry: just prepare your credit card for when a third party developer comes to finish MS job.

4 minutes ago, GearUp180 said:

😅

I guess that we could ask: "what's the purpose of ATC in this sim?". I see it as a revamped version (with a new UI) of the crappy FSX ATC: it was already bad in the mid 2000s.

But don't worry: just prepare your credit card for when a third party developer comes to finish MS job.

Credit Card? You mean PayPal for the monthly subscription! 😛

Hi,

 

Pilot2atc is a really good and ready add-on for atc which is already working with MFS2020 via FSUIPC7.  Moving map, speech recognition, flight planning, regional atc controllers accent,etc. are the key functions. You can try it for freee, as well.

Happy flying. 

2 minutes ago, kt069 said:

Hi,

 

Pilot2atc is a really good and ready add-on for atc which is already working with MFS2020 via FSUIPC7.  Moving map, speech recognition, flight planning, regional atc controllers accent,etc. are the key functions. You can try it for freee, as well.

Happy flying. 

I agree and it can be used in the other great sims as well at no additional charge.

Joe

22 minutes ago, kt069 said:

Hi,

 

Pilot2atc is a really good and ready add-on for atc which is already working with MFS2020 via FSUIPC7.  Moving map, speech recognition, flight planning, regional atc controllers accent,etc. are the key functions. You can try it for freee, as well.

Happy flying. 

I'll give that a try! Thanks!

Is it useful for VFR Cross country flying too or more IFR oriented?

I was using flight following today for only a short while and was given a traffic notification.

Just now, andyjohnston.net said:

I was using flight following today for only a short while and was given a traffic notification.

Interesting! So maybe i was just not close enough to the other traffic.

The primary purpose of Flight Following is Traffic Alerts. 

Real World and Sim World.

10 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

The primary purpose of Flight Following is Traffic Alerts. 

Real World and Sim World.

It actually also helps for inadvertent airspace penetration (pilot deviation etc.), and in missing A/C response and for LKP probability model. Not so much in the sim however 🙂

Edited September 13, 20205 yr by Flyfaster

2 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

I was using flight following today for only a short while and was given a traffic notification.

So, it works with live traffic? Interesting. 

1 hour ago, Flyfaster said:

It actually also helps for inadvertent airspace penetration (pilot deviation etc.), and in missing A/C response and for LKP probability model. Not so much in the sim however 🙂

Real world Airspace Infringements are YOUR responsibility as PIC. You won't get a warning - just a fine through the post at a later date!

Charts, charts, and charts. . .elctronic or paper and of course your situational awareness.

In the UK we have a rule for PPLs - "2 and 2" - stay at least 2 miles away from restricted space and at least 200' above or below the mins and maxs - whichever is the preferred for your flight.

Having said that they're a pretty relaxed bunch who'll readily grant a transit and - as you probably already know - you can pre-book a Transit before you take off;

Having said that - since the plague it's reverted back to AIP ENR 1.1 section 4.1.

And yup, you've guessed it - it's not straight forward anymore.

 

The purpose of flight following is to make your ears bleed from listening to the ugly, robotic ATC voice. Seriously, I feel like MSFS 2020' ATC is the worst in terms of accuracy and quality. In older FS sims and P3D, you had at least a variety of male/female voices, and they sounded pretty good. Am I the only one who is disgusted by the controller's ATC voice in the newest sim?

Don't mind the voice, but having had about a dozen rapid-fire instructions to descend to 5 different FLs in about a minute (despite acknowledgment and reasonable descent speed) I am just about fed up with ATC.  Easier not to bother than to spend all your time dealing with what feels like spam messages.  I think FSX was better.

So, you guys preferred the S L O W, laconic and extremely robotic FSX/P3D ATC?

Editvoicepak would speed it up until it was somewhat faster, but not quite natural even so, all IMHO of course.