Noel

Would there be any impact on AI traffic animation smoothness over non-live? BATC is better now for me than it has been historically vis a vis jerky animation, though it still happens just not as much as in past experience. If the user was blind to live v non-live, would they be able to tell it was live, or it would be essentially the same and so indistinguishable from non-live as I have now? Thanks!

I currently have the AIRAC cycles sub from Navigraph. BATC's traffic works well overall. Typically, as a user of SLC & BATC I rely on Simbrief's routing and as a result don't seem to have a need to look at Charts, which would be Greek to me anyway. On rare occasions if I want to look at and choose a specific STAR I will open and use LNM for that and it's fine. So, for a user such as myself, how would Ultimate impact BATC functioning? I think I read it brings realtime AI traffic, versus delayed or something like that. Is that really the gist of it? Thanks in advance

T'was probably me as I've said that more than once. But I can say now it's starting to morph into a useful ATC slowly and hopefully surely. The auto-respond voices are great and they're free.

Ditto, all of it! It is improving though so there's hope for a better product. Overall it's a net plus for sure and now I'm even using its traffic injector, though this morning after loading BATC and launching there was no GA or other aircraft at all at this rural airport in Cody, Wyoming. So launched FSLTL and lots of parked GA traffic appear as expected. I have parked traffic in BATC set to 10.

Slowly but surely...

And here I thought you left because you weren't seeing landing gear from far enough away. If you believe the most impressive, immersive and satisfying desktop flight sim in history is mediocre, because it's streaming-based only, when the fact remains it is fully operational 99.99% of its entire lifespan of now going on seven years at 24h/day, then what is keeping you here? And even pay for it? Pay for what? All of the free scenery and aircraft updates? How about MS' cost for server infrastructure build, maintenance and operation with zero subscription fees, all for a lousy $129 for a Premium Edition?

Kind of doubtful for me unless it requires no open interface during use as I have no room for another. I already have Self Loading Cargo up and running as well as BATC and overall, seems like it's enough comms with various entities. Presumably regional accents are being used, do we know?

That is the right question and out of EFIV the constraint is at 185kts or so, but I hand fly up to about FL010 and by the time we were at around FL066 constraint went to 220kts. I use the FD to stay on course and at altitude so doesn't seem like stall related.

This happened again this morning flying out of EFIV. No direct to next or subsequent waypoints fixed this. And here is the really bad part and to me this is clearly a defect, unless I simply don't understand what's happening which is very possible--in fact this tendency to bound upwards is probably related to why the plane AP does not engage: whenever this happens, when the autopilot will not engage when it appears it should be able to, the plane becomes bizarrely oversensitive to elevator inputs. Barely pull the yoke back and up she goes--very hard to control. Any other ideas?

I wish devs would implement letting the user open aircraft doors from the outside, and then being able to walk thru open doors via airstairs. Fenix does this and that is one reason that plane is a favorite. This allows one to walk up and into a plane, turn down the aisle and into the cockpit like pilots do in the RW. PMDG 777-200L doesn't let you walk thru an open door and I don't think you can open it from the outside. IFly's MAX 8 does not let you open doors from the outside either.

It's so true we live in a giant digital house of cards that is so vulnerable and we are ever more dependent on it. I'm stunned by how well it works overall with so many necessary pieces required to make it all work. Yes, my nickname is....Mr. Lucky😃

And the absolute reality here, from someone who has used MSFS 2020 from Day 1, then 2024 from Day...180...flying nearly EVERY DAY, and often 2-4x per day, the number of times its cloud architecture prevented me from flying is maybe 3-4 times, that's it.

That just seems so apropos, to request to extend approach etc, and it is surprising BATC has not got there yet. That said I do notice some things are improving in BATC. AI traffic animation is a bit better than it was last time I used BATC's injection, I'm having more smooth animations now than jerky, and just avoid staring when it's jerky. It's adjusting approach speed which is probably a good thing. It will permit me to Direct to Fix more often than in past tries. And the dynamic auto-respond controller voices are decent enough so I will buy less Premium voices. And for vectoring, it does seem to be improving overall.

Thanks for that, saw it, never tried it ;o) Flying out of Bilbao just now it was pretty good--I like that traffic is well spaced, not so busy as FSLTL has been with my settings, and as one plane landed it was quite smooth.

Good points. What I will do is when using smaller airports will use BATC's traffic, and for big terminals revert back to FSLTL. When I asked about other accents in the Premium voices I am pretty sure you said more were coming, more Capt's voice options for different languages. I'm not seeing it yet but I'm on the EA version. Any more news on that?