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same for 10 minutes now. guessing the AI uprising has begun and they started with Microsoft servers.

Some people are reporting wild oscillations in altitude. Personally, it is flying fine for me. Probably 8-10 flights with no AP issues. But the people who have it, it is flight-ending.

No no. lol. Eight... one-hour legs. My ADD won't even let me do a two-hour flight. :)

I have been openly critical of this project but since v1.0 I have only had one issue that killed a flight. I have done probably 8 hour-long legs with no issue. There are some bugs… errant caution lights, unreliable direct-to behavior, wide turns over waypoints… but nothing terrible. This week it is my go-to plane. However, the second I get a WASM it goes in the hangar. lol. Nothing irritates me more on approach after an hour invested in a flight. If they address the remaining bugs I would actually recommend it! EDIT: oh wait, I forgot they jacked the price up! DEFINITELY not worth it. This is a $30 plane at best.

Hey Ron, Not yet. I had a busy weekend but will likely hop into it in the next day or so. An hour seems like a minuscule amount of trial. I feel like it could take that long to get it set up. But will report back. EDIT: I see the launch price ends in 24 hours. So if I don’t buy it today, I’m out. No way it’s work $60.

Well I guess I am off to download the trial. I do love a good ATC program!

Almost 60 bucks for this is wild. $28 seems about right but if they are gonna double that I can’t imagine it seeing a lot of users.

This is what I do. However, if you ignore the vectors it will give you more extreme vectors to get you the point it had intended to vector you to. And it doesn’t allow you to do a “field in sight” so they will hand you off to tower. The fix for that for me is ignore the vectors then switch to tower on your own when established. I will say, overall, it has gotten pretty good. I quite enjoyed it on my three flights yesterday.

This is 100% a bug. My friend is a QXE Captain and says “No, there’s no master caution for that. Because while system logic knows that ECS is on (in the takeoff init) it doesn’t know if you want the APU on for another reason. You’d get one if you forgot to set the engine or wing anti-ice to on when the temp is below the threshold.” Of course the “experts” in the Discord all assured me it was correct behavior. Because, ya know, FSS is the gold standard for E-Jets.

After I spent 3 hours TRYING to map my Honeycomb Bravo (pretty unsuccessfully) I decided to quit tinkering and just fly. Taxied onto the runway and… ORANGE SCREENS. I rage-deleted it from my community folder and, since they call this the release version, I am done. 3 and a half years of frustration and no more. I will chalk it up to money wasted and live with the fact that I just can’t fly an E-Jet in this sim.

Yep. All correct. I DO still want to fly it, especially since I paid for it over 3 years ago and it is such a common aircraft IRL. Of course, when I tried today, it wouldn’t activate. Ooops. They released a patch and I’m at work now. So I will try AGAIN tonight to fly the plane I paid for 3 years ago. LOL. Better late than never?

Same! I get it if there was a potential piracy issue but with a subscription service what would I do with that information. I guess what irked me the most was the egotistical “that’s how it is” attitude that has become pervasive with their staff.

THIS is why I will never go back to SI. I have subscribed at least 3 times (one was annual.) When it frustrated me as they worked out a bug I would take a break and watch Discord. When they’d add a feature or squash a bug I’d read about it and re-sub. After 3 pretty flawed flights I got frustrated and cancelled. Went to Discord and was locked out. I reached out to support and was told “yeah we decided to make it a benefit for subscribers only.” I told him that I thought that was a bad idea and his response was pretty much “yeah that’s how it is now.” So I am making the best of BATC for now and it seems to be getting better.

I wish I could make giant fonts so I could… wait… I can? NO

Agreed. I ran out of Premium on my last flight and I honestly can’t tell the difference. In some instances the Premium are actually worse with weird pronunciations (alti-MEEETER, etc.) Man I wish that was the case for me. On my last flight I was given FIFTEEN vectors in 13 minutes! 285-300-285-270-290-305-325-290-300-320-360-025-040-055-075 until established. It was MADDENING. Thank god for the auto-reply button! 😜