The only real Air Traffic Control addon (i.e. it really controls all the air traffic) available for MSFS has now been officially released: FSHud V1.3.

It is a one-time-purchase ($34.95) with no recurring costs:

https://www.flight1.com/products.asp?vid=flt1sf&pid=fshudv1

I have been using this for quite a while now in public Beta and it has matured nicely over the recent months. It has become very reliable and is highly immersive. I can only recommend it.

It is tailored towards multi crew IFR flights from A to B and it provides an immersive ATC environment including AI traffic.

In a multi crew cockpit it is unrealistic to fly the aircraft and talk to ATC at the same time. The latter is the job of the pilot monitoring. FSHud simulates that nicely by providing a virtual copilot who handles all the communication; where necessary this can be triggered by a button or in a menu. (So it doesn't have voice recognition yet.) It also comes with a very simple user interface and Simbrief integration. Setting up a flight imported from Simbrief is done within a few seconds. So there really is no learning curve. FSHud is very simple to use. 

FSHud provides realistic and reliable ATC service - including SIDs, STARs, transitions, vectors where appropriate, sequencing by vectors and speed constraints, options to request different runways and procedures, missed approaches -, but not only for you alone.

You are not alone in the sky. FSHud integrates with both AIG and FSLTL traffic and takes full control of all AI aircraft (so you won't see all the quirks of the default AI traffic). You and AI aircraft are controlled on the same level with proper separation and sequencing both on the ground and in the air. You see other aircraft around you and hear their communication on the radio according to what they really do in the sim. You get the full picture of all the air traffic around you. It's not just some random ATC chatter. I have never experienced such an imersive ATC environment in MSFS before.

The icing on the cake is the support for Active Sky: FSHud can read the weather from Active Sky so you can also use ASFS' historic weather with FSHud.

 

Edited May 28, 20242 yr by RALF9636

This is the best purchase I made with the Fenix and active sky accompanied with Google Map enhancement (Bing Latest) and here I am with an MSFS which somewhat resembles reality...

FSHud is not bad; it has more flexibility built in than BeyondATC. But the robotic voices kill the immersion quickly, at least for me. But every ATC addon I know has plenty of room for improvement. Anyway, good times, because we have competition.🛫

20 minutes ago, hhbrbg said:

FSHud is not bad; it has more flexibility built in than BeyondATC. But the robotic voices kill the immersion quickly, at least for me. But every ATC addon I know has plenty of room for improvement. Anyway, good times, because we have competition.🛫

In versión 1.4 voices won't be robotic

1 minute ago, motishow said:

versión 1.4 voices won't be robotic

That sounds good 😊🎈

Are the voices clear? I mean some of the default voices in MSFS are strongly accented and inaudible, at least to my old ears.  

Will it work with any airliner without having to program the FMC, like a PMDG aircraft?

The voices use realistic radio distortion so they sound fine to me. Even better if dev is working on that. I've been using it on most of my flights for the last month and have been impressed (not easy with me!) 

I tend to do things my 'own way' and fshud has been adapting well imo. The better the airport the better it works. I fly a lot of small strips with no towers so it starts talking to me once I'm airborne. The taxi guidance helps too again if airport is well coded. 

A feature I'd love to see is more friendly and advanced flight plan creation /editing. At the moment it won't accept navigraph plans due to using '.' instead of '/' for runways and arrival /departure syntax different. It won't load a simple msfs plan up either. Simbrief works well but I prefer to do my own planning. I'd LOVE to see a graphical map of plan too. Sometimes the default it gives you goes miles out the way to find way points or airways. 

It DOES a pretty good job of actually getting you from a to b though if you just want to fly a short route with no plan. Except.. As it uses navigraph dB I believe I often get ICAO invalid messages even though the icao is in the sim. 

15 hours ago, RALF9636 said:

The icing on the cake is the support for Active Sky: FSHud can read the weather from Active Sky so you can also use ASFS' historic weather with FSHud.

Is this automatic or is there a setting for it. Do you hve to load Active Sky before turning on FSHUD and will it adjust the RWY use with the historical weather

Are the buttons or the menu visible in VR?

Exciting competition for sure. This looks great but I'll hold off until we get some voice recognition.

6 minutes ago, Lucky38i said:

Exciting competition for sure. This looks great but I'll hold off until we get some voice recognition.

Forgive me, I haven't bought fshud yet, is it button control only then?

35 minutes ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

Is this automatic or is there a setting for it. Do you hve to load Active Sky before turning on FSHUD and will it adjust the RWY use with the historical weather

Pretty sure it's automatic. When you start FSHUD there is an ACTIVE SKY field (IN THE SIM) that says connected when ASFS is running. Outside the sim FSHUD just ways waiting for simulator.

16 hours ago, RALF9636 said:

FSHud simulates that nicely by providing a virtual copilot who handles all the communication; where necessary this can be triggered by a button or in a menu. (So it doesn't have voice recognition yet.)

 

2 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

Forgive me, I haven't bought fshud yet, is it button control only then?

Based on what RALF said, it looks that way, but I Could be reading it wrong

Just now, Lucky38i said:

 

Based on what RALF said, it looks that way, but I Could be reading it wrong

Thanks, should've spotted that, too busy managing 3 girls during school holidays 🤣