I use BATC with time acceleration all the time...even medium-ish flights if I'm in a hurry.  I haven't encountered any issues.  I just turn on auto freq change and auto replies.

1 minute ago, rjack1282 said:

I use BATC with time acceleration all the time...even medium-ish flights if I'm in a hurry.  I haven't encountered any issues.  I just turn on auto freq change and auto replies.

Yes, but AI traffic will disappear, right?

3 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

Yes, but AI traffic will disappear, right?

No, I haven't noticed that.

I haven’t noticed the traffic disappearing issue, interesting.  Does changing the traffic levels not bring it back?  Usually that will reset traffic.

44 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

Just mix a bottle of Savignoc Blanc with Pellegrino in 1/3 proportion and you'll be fine for next 8 hours. 

Or you can come over and do my washing and ironing which is what I do on long hauls, or I can heartily suggest red dead redemption two or swiper elite resistance on the ps4

In the old FS/P3D universe setting time acceleration higher than 4x has made all AI traffic disappeared. Haven't tried this theory with BATC yet. I don't believe that any, even 2x acceleration would work with AI Traffic in BATC world, since it might create a lot of pressure on CPU.

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

If you are doing an 8 hour flight with time compression that then takes you 2 hours, you are really doing a 2 hour flight pretending it is 8  hours. 

Uhm, what? Who cares, I simply have no time for more than 3-4h simming sessions usually. And even if I would have 8h for simming, I would prefer doing 2 or 3 or even 4 flights in this time period over one single flight with 8h cruising at FL360 or above 😉 

5 minutes ago, AnkH said:

Uhm, what? Who cares, I simply have no time for more than 3-4h simming sessions usually. And even if I would have 8h for simming, I would prefer doing 2 or 3 or even 4 flights in this time period over one single flight with 8h cruising at FL360 or above 😉 

My max flight is around 2 hours, usually averaging around 1.5 hours. That's enough for me.

2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

If you are doing an 8 hour flight with time compression that then takes you 2 hours, you are really doing a 2 hour flight pretending it is 8  hours. 

Well, all we're ever doing is pretending, if you boil it right down...so in the end it's just a matter of semantics.

I generally fly heavies in the sim by flying the takeoff, departure, and climb to cruise heavy, then use a skip-ahead utility I wrote to put the acft about 200NM from destination at the appropriate time, adjust the fuel load, and then fly the arrival, approach, and landing from there.  That way I get the feel and performance of a heavily-loaded widebody for the departure (that sense of a heavy jet is why I don't just fly a shorter leg).  I have thousands of hours IRL droning over the open ocean at cruise, and have no idea why anyone would be interested in replicating that part of the experience.

But...if you're interested having in a truly realistic experience, I recommend going out to your garage around sundown, put a small vacuum cleaner in the back seat of your car, then sit there in the driver's seat with the vacuum running until sunrise, with your wife bringing you a strong cup of coffee every hour or so.  Then go back in and fly the approach on the sim.  😉

3 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

Or you can come over and do my washing and ironing which is what I do on long hauls, or I can heartily suggest red dead redemption two or swiper elite resistance on the ps4

Just watched Mobland and Landman while doing my long hauls. 

I HIGHLY recommend both!  If I'm not working the Lego is a great way to pass the time on a long haul but I can see how it could be difficult on the real flight deck although Family Guy made it happen...

 

Edited April 28, 20251 yr by psolk

2 hours ago, Bob Scott said:

I generally fly heavies in the sim by flying the takeoff, departure, and climb to cruise heavy, then use a skip-ahead utility I wrote to put the acft about 200NM from destination at the appropriate time, adjust the fuel load, and then fly the arrival, approach, and landing from there.  That way I get the feel and performance of a heavily-loaded widebody for the departure (that sense of a heavy jet is why I don't just fly a shorter leg).  I have thousands of hours IRL droning over the open ocean at cruise, and have no idea why anyone would be interested in replicating that part of the experience.

The only reason I can think of would be weather avoidance, but even there you might be high enough to avoid it.  That and maybe a manually-done step climb.

8 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

If you are doing an 8 hour flight with time compression that then takes you 2 hours, you are really doing a 2 hour flight pretending it is 8  hours. 

You sit at your chair pretending you’re flying an actual pilot, no one is judging how you have fun, why do you care?