I personally use basic when in UK/Canada/US/AUS/NZ then switch to premium outside of that.

non-english ATC sounds a lot better with premium

Edited December 22, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

3 minutes ago, Flic1 said:

You can choose voices for both Controller and Traffic.  Each has the option of Basic voices that are free.  If you want the Premium voices, you have to purchase the additional characters once you use up what you get initially.  I use the Premium voice for the Controller and Basic for the traffic (although it will still use the Premium voices for controller so I ran my characters down quick!).  

So, Basic not extra cost. if you want premium voices, once the characters are used up, you must buy more (Premium), but with the basic there is no replenshing voices. so it stays free with the basic voices.

Just making sure on the options.

 

Thank you

2 minutes ago, Ed_S_Pilot said:

but with the basic there is no replenshing voices. so it stays free with the basic voices.

Yes, all you need to buy is the program itself.

 

2 minutes ago, Ed_S_Pilot said:

So, Basic not extra cost. if you want premium voices, once the characters are used up, you must buy more (Premium), but with the basic there is no replenshing voices. so it stays free with the basic voices.

Just making sure on the options.

Yup...you never have to buy premium characters if you don't want!  I do like the Premium voices though but switch back and forth at times. I also don't use ATC on every flight so they still last a while...

1 minute ago, Flic1 said:

Yup...you never have to buy premium characters if you don't want!  I do like the Premium voices though but switch back and forth at times. I also don't use ATC on every flight so they still last a while...

Thank you,

Im looking into the VFR aspect, Not the Airliners. Based on the video, Its a pretty cool program.

5 hours ago, Ed_S_Pilot said:

Im looking into the VFR aspect, Not the Airliners.

Then wait. VFR is not implemented and planned for a further stage of development.

I guess I have Premium in atc and Basic on the controller.

I never purchased additional voices, but last night, on a short hop in the Fenix 320 from Faro to Lisboa, I got many pilot's talking that characteristic "Portenglish" that I listen to on the radio IRL 🙂 Incredible!

Was also the first time I used BATC with FSLTL, and WOW !!!

I hadn't used FSLTL since I dropped FS 2020 months ago. I used it with FSHUD.

I'me really glad with the overall performance, and my rig is "just" what you can read in my signature - 8 Gb VRAM and 32 GB RAM !!!

Also VFR coming !!! 

Edited December 22, 20241 yr by jcomm

Very cool! But I guess it's not something a button user like me will benefit from. I do wish they'd work on some better button control implementation. It's very basic right now.

5 minutes ago, mistolip said:

Very cool! But I guess it's not something a button user like me will benefit from. I do wish they'd work on some better button control implementation. It's very basic right now.

I also use BATC with buttons only. Works very good.

However I use also a tablet interface via AxisAndOHs

 

 

Its usable with just buttons without speaking very good, Also without the tablet solution.
 

But I think I will change maybe to speaking when the new LLM arrives ... we will see.

As MSFS users, we are very lucky to have some of the best 3rd party add-ons being developed for a flight sim.

In this case, BeyondATC is an MSFS exclusive at the moment. Now the BeyondATC team could decide to expand to support the other competing flight simulators, but at the moment, they aren't doing so. Which leaves BeyondATC an MSFS only add-on for the time being.

New add-ons like BeyondATC, FBW A380, etc, are possible because MSFS has so many 3rd party developers making add-ons for it. I've said it before and I will say it again, moving forward, the overwhelming new top tier 3rd party add-ons will be for MSFS. Yes, the other competing civilian flight simulators may get some new top tier add-ons in the future, but not near as many that MSFS will get, because of the sheer size of the 3rd party developers working on MSFS (I want to emphasize "new" though, because even P3D has a lot of top tier add-ons, but they are very few new top tier add-ons coming to P3D in the future).

This is a great time to be an MSFS user, we keep getting more and more new AAA add-ons.

Edited December 22, 20241 yr by abrams_tank

2 hours ago, guenseli said:

I also use BATC with buttons only. Works very good.

However I use also a tablet interface via AxisAndOHs

Its usable with just buttons without speaking very good, Also without the tablet solution.
 

But I think I will change maybe to speaking when the new LLM arrives ... we will see.

I had no idea that BeyondATC could be run via a WebAPI! Is that only available via an AAO interface? I'm just in the process of swapping from AAO to Spad so would love to hear that there's a SPAD or generic BeyondATC solution to accessing the program via webapi! 

3 hours ago, jcomm said:

 

I never purchased additional voices, but last night, on a short hop in the Fenix 320 from Faro to Lisboa, I got many pilot's talking that characteristic "Portenglish" that I listen to on the radio IRL 🙂 Incredible!

 

Flying in Europe has never been more fun with all these characteristic accents... Spanish, Italian, French, German, etc. 😀 and of course the occasional native speaker from Great Britain or the United States. The immersion from that is absolutely mind blowing.

4 hours ago, Farlis said:

Then wait. VFR is not implemented and planned for a further stage of development.

Yes, I plan to. Even with out the VFR, I like it and will be worth the wait. 
 

Thank you

Looks like most of us picked up the correct ATC addon!

That's really cool, I think that is going to be the perfect mix between the the current options in terms of AI model, doesn't have the canned rigidity of current BATC / FSHud but doesn't just let go like SI which leads to some odd interactions and being able to say some rubbish.

Can't wait to try it