In praise of BeyondATC (now with VR toolbar access)

I've been using Pilot2ATC for most of this year - and they were right in their comprehensive support documentation that there is a heck of a learning curve!! 

Using Sky4Sim I got reasonable in-VR-cockpit access to the information, and the implementation of MSFS Simbrief Dispatch has made synchronising the aircraft flight plan with the Pilot2ATC plan easier.  But - and it's a big but - only 50% of my flights, on average, were ever completely successful.  And this was particularly at the final approach where I would battle with Pilot2ATC to get it to agree what flight level I should be at (the Navigraph charts should be a clue!) or the vectors would come so late and so thick and fast there was no chance of lining up.  Very frustrating for it to all go wrong when you've spent 2 hours with a fully ATC-helped start up, taxi, take off and cruise!!!

And I've been keeping my eye on BeyondATC - but, until now, there was not a native VR access...and on my system, interactive facils like FSKneeboard, etc, just don't cut the mustard.

Anyway, after a particularly vexing Pilot2ATC flight, 'Negative ATC, I cannot inform Tower when on final as you have lined me up 0.5 miles from the active runway at 8000 feet!!' I thought I'd check BeyondATC again...and spotted on their download page a recent addition (very little fanfare elsewhere?) of a VR toolbar addition 🙂

It's brilliant.  Half a day - off and on - of familiarisation and then two fully successful start-ups, flights, landings and taxis!  Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.  Well done, BeyondATC.  Great job!