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Advice on some third party products

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Hi everyone. I am watching some videos for some third party products and I am hoping some of you might be able to take a minute to give me some feedback. Just high level stuff like do you use it, is it a good product to have/use, etc.

Here are the products I am curious about right now:

SIMBRIEF (any advantage to using this over the in-sim flight planning services, is it stable, etc)?
PILOT2ATC (anyone using it, stable, etc.)?

VATSIM n(same things, using it, stable, fun to use)?

One last thing: How do you completely turn off ATC in-sim?

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Simbrief is stable, free and not that hard to use so if you want more realism I dont see why not to use it. I tried using Pilot2ATC but my god that interface is ancient and it is a pain to learn. I`m sure it can be good if I`ve learn it but I dont know if can be bothered. Vatsim is awesome with the caveat that you must fly where the controllers are not the other way around.

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3 minutes ago, Tva said:

Simbrief is stable, free and not that hard to use so if you want more realism I dont see why not to use it. I tried using Pilot2ATC but my god that interface is ancient and it is a pain to learn. I`m sure it can be good if I`ve learn it but I dont know if can be bothered. Vatsim is awesome with the caveat that you must fly where the controllers are not the other way around.

Thanks. Would love more opinions.

Also, if you use a different flight plan program or ATC program that you think is better, mention it to me please. I would love to research it.

Now, if I only knew how to fly LOL.

Case: (Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic XL), PSU: (MEG Ai300p pcie 5 & ATX 3.0), Motherboard: (ASUS TUF Gaming x670E-PLUS WIFI 6E), CPU: (AMD Ryzen 7 7800-X3D) 

Memory: (G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO RGB Series 64GB DDR5 6000), GPU: (Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme Airo). CPU Cooler: (ASUS ROG Strix LC RGB 360) 

Fans: (7 Corsair LL Series 120mm RGB)

Simbrief is awesome and free.  I use it for any flight where I need an IFR flightplan.

Dave

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I use Pilot2ATC.  It works ok.  Way better then the built in ATC, which I never use. The only issue I have had, is occasionally FSUIPC will just decide to close, and then Pilot2ATC stops communicating with the sim. But the program itself is stable. 

As far as turning off ATC, I just turn off the voice for ATC in the options and I just don't open the ATC window. 

Simbrief is very good and stable. Have used it for years, and its free. Its also more realistic. 

Rick 

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