turnandbank

Yes. Getting this here in Chilliwack, BC right now. Tried to launch MSFS 2024 twice, second time after a PC restart with no success.

That works. Thank you!

Same here. Hope we ca get an updated link.

Black square aircraft performance is fine for me too. Equal to or in some cases even better than most default aircraft.

I use FShud with AIG traffic. No subscription needed and works well for me.

They might be a game changer for someone coming from a 16:9 flat panel, but in no way are they comparable to VR.

It has been intermittently slow and sometimes unusable for me over the past few weeks. Lots of gateway timeouts where the page won't load at all. Getting "server not available" errors even while responding to this. The backend for this site definitely needs improvement.

This is my experience too. I also tried SI via the free trial they offered again, but the descent clearances always left me way too high and there were multiple traffic conflicts on the ground with AI taxiing right through me. Even had an Ai taxi through me and depart after I was instructed to line up and wait. Imo FShud is currently the most reliable option and I prefer it to BATC and SI by a significant margin, but their vectoring still needs to be more efficient.

Just a heads up for anyone wanting to give SayIntentions a try. This is from their facebook page: During FSExpo, SayIntentions.AI will be free to use within 250NM of KMSP from Wednesday through Monday. The MSP area is open to new users and expired accounts, so whether you’re trying us for the first time or getting back into the cockpit, the MSP bubble is yours to fly.

Everyone has different tastes and expectations, however, I actually prefer FSHud voices over the BATC local voices (I don't use the premium). You can also adjust the tempo of the speech. I set mine to 120% which results in a more realistic speech tempo based on what I hear on live atc. I can't say how much the voices have improved as I only acquired FSHud about 2 weeks ago. It certainly has room for improvement in some areas, but, on balance, I currently prefer it to BATC. On my last flight with BATC, the ATC stopped talking near the end of my arrival into CYVR. At least it still kept talking to all of the AI traffic lol. It is very frustrating when a flight ends like that.

That may be true. I am fine with injecting scheduled traffic into FSHud using AIGTC. Works great for me and gives me more traffic that the BATC scheduled traffic injection does even with max settings. It also performs smoother fo me. I tried the new FSHud live traffic injector a few times and did see some flights that where also on FR24, but as FSHud takes control of all injected traffic they are not in their actual real time locations. This will be the same as BATC if it is indeed managing the realtime traffic as part of its overall ATC system. I have not tried BATC live traffic injection as I do not maintain a Navigraph subscription year round.

I think FSHud is the better option if you are just wanting it for traffic injection. With BATC, it will not load any AI traffic until you have provided a SimBrief flight plan, and even then I believe, but am not 100% sure, that it may only inject traffic along your planned route. By comparison, FSHud will inject traffic wherever you are, even without a flight plan. It will also control that injected traffic so that it behaves in a realistic manner, which is something even FSLTL cannot do since MSFS 2024 takes control of its injected traffic. FSHud also lets you listen to ATC interacting with all of the injected traffic across a list of various frequencies from around the area you are flying, which BATC does not provide unless you are actively interacting with the ATC itself. On top of that, FSHud displays all AI traffic on a map, including speed and altitude. For those reasons I think FSHud is worth the money just for its ability to provide immersive traffic injection along with meaningful ATC chatter, even if you choose not to interact with the ATC itself.

You should consider fshud. I have had BATC for over a year and while it is improving, I just purchases fshud and after the first few flights, I definitely prefer it in most aspects. You can just get a one month sub to Navigraph to get all your Navdata in sync with it, Simbrief and msfs.

Glad it helped. SU5 was almost unusable for me until I removed them. Lots of users reporting the same on the official forum.

If you have any mumudesign powerlines, solarfarms and/or marinas in your community folder, try disabling them. Many users including myself found them to be a significant cause of pauses and stutters since SU5. They were not an issue in SU4, so this is new.