This was posted a short time ago on BeyondATC's Discord: 

'Hello @everyone!

**Happy CPDLC and ACARS availability day!**

CPDLC and ACARS support is now live on the EA branch, providing a new and exciting way to communicate with controllers in BeyondATC. CPDLC (Controller Pilot Data Link Communications) is a supplement, not a replacement, for voice communications using text based messaging and is used in a variety of regions around the world, especially in larger and busier airspaces. Some highlights on what you'll be able to do with this functionality? 

- Receive PDC and CPDLC-DCL over text instead of having to call up the controller, especially useful at busy airports
- Logon to center controllers using their unique logon code (viewable under the frequencies menu in BATC), allowing you to receive applicable instructions over text instead of voice
- Request altitude changes and directs via text
- Receive D-ATIS and METAR over ACARS*

* **Important!!**D-ATIS and METAR lookups are a very new feature and developers will need time to add support for it, feel free to ask them but be mindful we 
have reached out to our developer contacts with the information and they are most likely working on it already.

**A few notes:**
- The BeyondATC integration for CPDLC and ACARS requires third party developers to add support for it within their products, this is not a plug and play system, the aircraft developers that already support our integrations are below, if you do not see your favourite aircraft on the list they may either already be working on integration, or they may need instructions on how to integrate - we've tried to keep it as painless as possible and any developer looking to add support for our CPDLC and ACARS system should reach out to [email protected].
- Not all aircraft will support CPDLC, in such case you shouldn't expect to be able to use the system - please refer to the aircraft developers for such information.
- While plane specific support should be directed to the relevant developers support channels we have information on CPDLC and how to use it on our Wiki here: https://wiki.beyondatc.net/knowledge-base/cpdlc/ (please note, this is in the process of being updated)
- You are always required to be tuned in and to vocally contact controllers on first contact for CPDLC to work - we do not support MONITOR messages and sending CPDLC requests to a controller you are not tuned into will not be processed until you are tuned into that station.

**Supported Aircraft**
The below aircraft already support CPDLC and ACARS integration with BeyondATC
⦁ Fenix Simulations A319 / A320 / A321
⦁ iniBuilds A340/A350
⦁ Fly the Maddog X MD–82 / MD–83 / MD–88

If you have any questions or feedback for CPDLC - we'll be keeping ⁠ CPDLC Feedback Forum (https://discord.com/channels/1082413096045391915/1401551261266084010) open for a while and of course any bugs need to be reported via the <#1402345783256420392> process. 

We hope you enjoy this new way of communicating with BeyondATC and we look forward to hearing you try it out!'

 

---Release Notes also from Discord ---

 

**Minor Version 1.7.4.EA**
```📡 CPDLC / ACARS
Now available to all our users, please see the announcement for full details of what is available and how to use!

✈️ Traffic
- Player airports now use a much wider traffic time slice, giving much more complete traffic at airports including cargo aircraft not leaving for a long time. In addition fix bugs that reduced the amount of traffic in 1.7.0 - in general traffic volumes will be better than ever before now, while being more accurate.
- Fixed traffic turnarounds not working 
- Read airline parking codes from scenery (Asobo added an API for this) when they exist and combine them with our data for increase in parking accuracy. These are often incomplete - even in payware, so they are supplementary not the source of all truth!
- Fix overlapping traffic on top of player if the player starts a flight at their destination airport
- Fixed gate allocation timing for traffic which was causing runway turn off directions to often be wrong since 1.7.0
- Update AIG registration to livery mapping file from @MarceloNahas - reminder this only applies if AIG is top priority in your traffic list
- Taxi pathing adjustments to better keep arriving and departing aircraft on separated paths and general pathing improvements
- Improve traffic crossing runways more readily by separating timing rules of crossings vs takeoffs.
- Improve stuck traffic due head to head taxi routes or deadlocked taxi paths, this is still work in progress.
- Stop aircraft holding for ever to takeoff because of another aircraft is waiting to cross runway
- Fix low traffic volumes after you press Esc to load a new flight
- Improve deceleration calculation for landing traffic to reduce turn offs that are too early and over safe speed
- Guard to prevent duplicate aircraft with the same tail number being injected.
- Traffic sequencing distances are now dynamic based on the wake turbulence combination of the leading and following aircraft

⚙️ Improvements
- Better altitude handling in STARs that do not end in an altitude constraint, which could often lead to arrivals being too high [26978337 + others]
- Improve handling of WinWing SimAppPro ghost events in binding and input control, should now be 100% reliable and no longer requires the 2 second button press process during binding. 
- Frequencies: Changed callsign of center frequency 131.100 from Brindisi Radar to Rome Radar
- AIRAC 2512 pronunciation data
- Latest airline updates from pilot portal

🐞 Bug Fixes
- Fix very old METARs potentially being loaded when using MSFS2024 24 hour historic weather.
- Fix GSX arrival integration not working after the recent 3.7.2 GSX patch, that changed various menu names and flows

🛬 Airport Ops Updates
NZNP, KMCO, LEBL, VAPO, UUDD, VLVT, RPVP, YBAS, SBBE, CYYC, KDEN. KBDL```
Happy CPDLC availability day 🙂

Edited December 11, 2025Dec 11 by MaGer1965

I just did a flight in the Fenix and CPDLC worked great. The only issue I have is you cannot receive D-ATIS from BATC from the Fenix, I think the Fenix devs have to work something out. 

And as usual PMDG is behind. The other developers included the integration months ago, when development of it by BeyondATC was still in the very first stages.

Does anyone know how to make this work with the Maddog. 

14 minutes ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

Does anyone know how to make this work with the Maddog. 

It's not currently working with the maddog, something the Leonnardo team needs to a resolve.

https://www.flythemaddog.com/forum/index.php?/topic/15710-cpdlc-with-beyondatc/

Did a flight with the INI A350 last night with the latest beyondATC update. Requested my PDC through the onboarding systems and received it promptly. Once I reached my cruise level, I logged into CPDLC and got handed off to different centres throughout the flight. Works a treat. Definitely adds a more realistic element to flying in the sim.       

On 12/11/2025 at 3:40 AM, Farlis said:

And as usual PMDG is behind. The other developers included the integration months ago, when development of it by BeyondATC was still in the very first stages.

I'm pretty sure the 737-800 will support this when it comes out.

On 12/11/2025 at 3:03 AM, fakeflyer737 said:

I just did a flight in the Fenix and CPDLC worked great. The only issue I have is you cannot receive D-ATIS from BATC from the Fenix, I think the Fenix devs have to work something out. 

Yep Fenix they need to implement it on their side, but shouldn't take too long, it's rather straight forward.

54 minutes ago, cappy42 said:

I'm pretty sure the 737-800 will support this when it comes out.

Probably not on release, but they've recently asked the BATC devs for documentation, so it should come some time after release (and probably also for the 777).

3 hours ago, cappy42 said:

I'm pretty sure the 737-800 will support this when it comes out.

That's beside the point.

Fenix, Inibuilds and Leonardo didn't wait until it became part of the public branch. PMDG could have added it to the 777 months ago.

Edited December 12, 2025Dec 12 by Farlis

Best addon ever. 

I did a flight with BATC last night for the first time in many months and it worked very well. The premium voices are very impressive. Having ditched it for SI a while ago I might pivot back to try it more. 

Nothing has worked for me since the update. ATC keeps forgetting me everywhere. I get 'Expect radar vectors for...' without a specified runway. The vectors are completely wrong and the altitudes are incorrect too. Sometimes the controller forgets me completely.

Today, I was supposed to intercept the localiser at 5,000 feet in KSFO at AXMUL. Yesterday, in KSEA, the approach controller forgot about me and sent me to the tower without providing any guidance.

In the A350, my frequency constantly changes to ATIS without my intervention, handover to the tower only happens by chance, and taxiing to the gate after landing is impossible.

Beyond is one of the worst-developed and most misguided programs I have ever experienced, and it is truly remarkable how, for months, one pointless feature after another has been prioritised while the core product is completely decaying.

1 minute ago, marlon445 said:

Beyond is one of the worst-developed and most misguided programs I have ever experienced

Hardly.

1 minute ago, marlon445 said:

ne pointless feature after another has been prioritised while the core product is completely decaying.

CPDLC is a core feature of ATC

Have you reported these issues on BATC discord?

Edited December 17, 2025Dec 17 by Tuskin38

16 hours ago, marlon445 said:

Beyond is one of the worst-developed and most misguided programs I have ever experienced, and it is truly remarkable how, for months, one pointless feature after another has been prioritised while the core product is completely decaying.

I fly almost everyday using BATC with either Fenix or PMDG's aircraft in 2024 and yes there are a few hiccups from time to time but nothing that stops me continuing the flight. 
If your frequency keeps changing to ATIS you may want to look at your aircraft addon or something else that's triggering this as BATC won't automaticaly switch you to ATIS, it only hands over from controller to controller.
nce you go off frequency (becasue you've switched to ATIS) you need to reselect the correct frequency and "Announce back on frequency" and then ATC will know, and hopefully handle you accordingly.
Like Tuskin said if you feel you have a genuine issue then get the logs and report it on BATC discord.