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BATC Traffic coming to all users imminently

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Thank you BATC !

I'm in the Supporters "group". 

Only problem so far is that I just want to use default FS 2024 aircraft as AI, no FSLTL or AIG, but due to a problem with the SDK this hasn't been possible. 

Is it fixed in the new patch released yesterday - 1.2.7.0 ?

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  • I can vouch for the BATC traffic, it's nice. It can use FSLTL, AIG and FSTraffic models if you have any of them installed.

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    Yes, it all has pros and cons. At the same time - if you're at an airport scenery that does not reflect real life (try KORD and report back) you will see aircraft taxi in the grass where taxiways have

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What's this Zulu issue/patch in MSFS24?

I haven't tried BATC in '24 yet but one of my concerns was around weather.  I read that wx is now linked to sim time and no option to unlink it for now. As I fly real schedules that would mean BATC reading live weather and my in sim weather may be out of sync - is that understanding correct for '24?

9 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Works fine for no Sid and Star, 

Generally doesn't for me without that, even with it can be dodgy:

Recent example without:

EGPD ILS34 initially dropped me 3000ft, then left me there far too long, then dropped another 3000ft. Eventually leaving me way high. Heading to vector me onto the ILS was 75 degrees...

Recent departure ignoring SID / Terrain:

LOWI/26 Climb straight ahead on runway heading. Only excuse I'd give it is departure was to South.

Or my absolute favourite, ignoring approach procedure:

VQPR/33 Expect vectors to 😂🤣😂

 

When it's good it's good, but about 50% of my flights it's a mess. It's very poor at descending (even when you ask to start), and hopeless at vectors. Has been since the start.

 

G

Gary Davies aka "Gazzareth"

Simming since 747 on the Acorn Electron

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2 minutes ago, Gazzareth said:

Generally doesn't for me without that, even with it can be dodgy:

Recent example without:

EGPD ILS34 initially dropped me 3000ft, then left me there far too long, then dropped another 3000ft. Eventually leaving me way high. Heading to vector me onto the ILS was 75 degrees...

Recent departure ignoring SID / Terrain:

LOWI/26 Climb straight ahead on runway heading. Only excuse I'd give it is departure was to South.

Or my absolute favourite, ignoring approach procedure:

VQPR/33 Expect vectors to 😂🤣😂

 

When it's good it's good, but about 50% of my flights it's a mess. It's very poor at descending (even when you ask to start), and hopeless at vectors. Has been since the start.

 

G

That's odd, for me it has improved massively in terms of procedures, vectoring and descend instructions over the last couple of months. They did a lot of work on making vectors more accurate, i.e. no more 25nm finals and odd zig zag turns to intercept. I haven't experienced any of your issues in a long time and I'm doing around 40 flights a month with it. Have you tried a reinstall?

The things I miss the most right now are speed instructions on approach, holds, shortcuts for long transitions, historic weather support and CPDLC integration. I'm sure those will be added in due course. Otherwise I'm very happy with the progress here - it's a joy to use. 

The final traffic update was pushed to Experimental last night, adding pushback tugs to the AI and various other things. Once that's confirmed stable Traffic will be released for the main version, so should be soon.

37 minutes ago, Speedbird 217 said:

What's this Zulu issue/patch in MSFS24?

I haven't tried BATC in '24 yet but one of my concerns was around weather.  I read that wx is now linked to sim time and no option to unlink it for now. As I fly real schedules that would mean BATC reading live weather and my in sim weather may be out of sync - is that understanding correct for '24?

Yes, unfortunately that's true!
I asked this question in her Discord ...
Unfortunately, no Active Sky weather is read :
Quote Discord: 

"Currently BATC requires live weather. There is no mechanism for getting the weather from the sim itself. The only way to deal with it is to have both use Live weather so they should match. It would be great is Aboso make the weather available - not just for BATC but things like a proper weather radar etc - but their contract for weather data prevents that. The devs are aware of the way MSFS2024 uses historic weather though and are exploring option on how to support that in the future."

So, my decision in favor of FSHUD was a very good one! FSHUD can use Active Sky Weather, which I really appreciate!
Apart from that I am very satisfied with the development of FSHUD, but I wanted to look for an additional ATC program - unfortunately BATC is out of the question for me in this case !

regards
ggerolamo

kind regards,

ggerolamo

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25 minutes ago, Speedbird 217 said:

That's odd, for me it has improved massively in terms of procedures, vectoring and descend instructions over the last couple of months. They did a lot of work on making vectors more accurate, i.e. no more 25nm finals and odd zig zag turns to intercept. I haven't experienced any of your issues in a long time and I'm doing around 40 flights a month with it. Have you tried a reinstall?

The things I miss the most right now are speed instructions on approach, holds, shortcuts for long transitions, historic weather support and CPDLC integration. I'm sure those will be added in due course. Otherwise I'm very happy with the progress here - it's a joy to use. 

The final traffic update was pushed to Experimental last night, adding pushback tugs to the AI and various other things. Once that's confirmed stable Traffic will be released for the main version, so should be soon.

I'm on stable rather than experimental, although I was talking to a friend last night who uses experimental and he thought similar - I'm not sure if the experimental is any better in terms of descending / vectoring. Don't get me wrong there is a lot I like about it, but it still has a LONG way to go. That said the last two flights I did on it were perfect and just starting another (although there hasn't been an update since the vectoring into Aberdeen disaster so there is clearly still potential for it to go wrong).. Although KLAS-PANC so ??

 

G

 

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Simming since 747 on the Acorn Electron

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44 minutes ago, Gazzareth said:

Generally doesn't for me without that, even with it can be dodgy:

Recent example without:

EGPD ILS34 initially dropped me 3000ft, then left me there far too long, then dropped another 3000ft. Eventually leaving me way high. Heading to vector me onto the ILS was 75 degrees...

Recent departure ignoring SID / Terrain:

LOWI/26 Climb straight ahead on runway heading. Only excuse I'd give it is departure was to South.

Or my absolute favourite, ignoring approach procedure:

VQPR/33 Expect vectors to 😂🤣😂

 

When it's good it's good, but about 50% of my flights it's a mess. It's very poor at descending (even when you ask to start), and hopeless at vectors. Has been since the start.

 

G

That's not good. I was planning to buy it. If it can't properly follow procedures, what is the point?

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41 minutes ago, ggerolamo said:

Yes, unfortunately that's true!
I asked this question in her Discord ...
Unfortunately, no Active Sky weather is read :
Quote Discord: 

"Currently BATC requires live weather. There is no mechanism for getting the weather from the sim itself. The only way to deal with it is to have both use Live weather so they should match. It would be great is Aboso make the weather available - not just for BATC but things like a proper weather radar etc - but their contract for weather data prevents that. The devs are aware of the way MSFS2024 uses historic weather though and are exploring option on how to support that in the future."

So, my decision in favor of FSHUD was a very good one! FSHUD can use Active Sky Weather, which I really appreciate!
Apart from that I am very satisfied with the development of FSHUD, but I wanted to look for an additional ATC program - unfortunately BATC is out of the question for me in this case !

regards
ggerolamo

That's a shame.

I'm not using ActiveSky anymore but was planning to use the historic sim weather in '24 (in the way it's implemented, i.e. if I set 12:25 departure it uses the 12:25 weather for that location within the past 24 hrs).

I think there's an online archive for METARs - can't they use something like that? Even if it only covers the last 24 hours. Or they could store the data they already use for BATC for the past 24 hours on their server and use it that way? I'm ok if it can't read the weather from 10 years ago, but 1 day worth of data doesn't seem unreasonable so it ties to sim time/weather <24hrs?

41 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

That's not good. I was planning to buy it. If it can't properly follow procedures, what is the point?

Well, when it works it's good. Unfortunately it's mostly the descent it messes up on, so it's a bit late to swap to an alternative. Unless it starts vectoring and descending me 350nm out, then I'll just shut it down and load up p2atc .. ..

G

Gary Davies aka "Gazzareth"

Simming since 747 on the Acorn Electron

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1 hour ago, ggerolamo said:

Yes, unfortunately that's true!
I asked this question in her Discord ...
Unfortunately, no Active Sky weather is read :
Quote Discord: 

"Currently BATC requires live weather. There is no mechanism for getting the weather from the sim itself. The only way to deal with it is to have both use Live weather so they should match. It would be great is Aboso make the weather available - not just for BATC but things like a proper weather radar etc - but their contract for weather data prevents that. The devs are aware of the way MSFS2024 uses historic weather though and are exploring option on how to support that in the future."

So, my decision in favor of FSHUD was a very good one! FSHUD can use Active Sky Weather, which I really appreciate!
Apart from that I am very satisfied with the development of FSHUD, but I wanted to look for an additional ATC program - unfortunately BATC is out of the question for me in this case !

regards
ggerolamo

Dev told me historical weather is one of the next things he‘ll be working on. I‘d love that too

For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.

1 hour ago, ggerolamo said:

Yes, unfortunately that's true!
I asked this question in her Discord ...
Unfortunately, no Active Sky weather is read :
Quote Discord: 

"Currently BATC requires live weather. There is no mechanism for getting the weather from the sim itself. The only way to deal with it is to have both use Live weather so they should match. It would be great is Aboso make the weather available - not just for BATC but things like a proper weather radar etc - but their contract for weather data prevents that. The devs are aware of the way MSFS2024 uses historic weather though and are exploring option on how to support that in the future."

So, my decision in favor of FSHUD was a very good one! FSHUD can use Active Sky Weather, which I really appreciate!
Apart from that I am very satisfied with the development of FSHUD, but I wanted to look for an additional ATC program - unfortunately BATC is out of the question for me in this case !

regards
ggerolamo

See my post above, historical weather is coming soon

For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.

I'm on EXPERIMENTAL, does this announcement mean I should change to Early Access instead ?

Still looking forward into being able to use default FS 2024 AI traffic, because I don't want to use either AIG or FSLTL, at least for now...

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1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

That's not good. I was planning to buy it. If it can't properly follow procedures, what is the point?

It does. It hasn‘t messed up a descent for ages for me. I can‘t tell you why Gazza is having more problems than me. I

I suggest buying it and trying it, you can always ask for a refund and it will normally be granted if it‘s within reasonable time.
Also check the BATC Discord for further reviews (positive or negative).

For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.

Just now, jcomm said:

I'm on EXPERIMENTAL, does this announcement mean I should change to Early Access instead ?

Still looking forward into being able to use default FS 2024 AI traffic, because I don't want to use either AIG or FSLTL, at least for now...

No, stay on Experimental. The next big feature will come to experimental once traffic is on basic.

For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.

It was an update automatically installed yesterday. Is it the update they were talking about or we still need to wait for additional package?

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