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I just ignore all altitude descent instructions from BATC. I figure my TOD and do the descent anyway. When I get close enough to pick up the ILS I self-vector and fly the approach. I can’t believe after all these years they still get something as simple as descents and vectors ironed out.

I think they painted themselves into a corner at FS Expo by promising an update within a week. They had to release something and this is the mess they sent out.

As an owner I have to agree with Fiorentoni. It is a dumpster fire that is unflyable. And WORSE than it was when I bought it two years ago. It seems with every update they introduce new issues. I used to be able to at least (poorly) complete a flight. For about the past year I can’t even get in the air without rage-quitting. They are a textbook lesson in what to avoid from a developer.

I just got this today. Unrecoverable. Very frustrating.

Same. Using it for the Fokker F100 and F70 a lot now.

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I was a member of the beta team and will say I totally enjoyed it. Like in a ‘rush home and play every night’ kind of way. It had bugs, but Matt was quick to note them and, I assume, has fixed them. I am just learning helis and bought the H145 (I need the stability system) and this product gives that flying a purpose. It’s priced about $10 more than I had hoped but when you figure cost per hour of entertainment it’s really a fair price.

The SI toolbar is just so you can see the panel in VR. You don't need it, as everything can be done with voice.

Also, please continue to discuss SI here, as they have a new policy: when your premium subscription expires you are banned from all channels of their Discord except the “Announcements” that come directly from them. I lost my access when I decided to take a few months off (after several frustrating flights) so I opened a ticket. Their reply: Many thanks for the ticket, we've recently taken the decision to limit the Premium access, etc, to users who have active premium subscriptions. As a paid tier, it felt unfair to us that users with subscriptions that were no longer active should have full access to things that form the whole basis of the paid subscription tiers. Not being able to see customer complaints AND their resolution really limits the likelihood I will ever be back. Many times when taking a break I would see people talking about how a feature had improved and re-subscribe.

No mod that I am aware of. I agree the sounds are poor in general. Like the sounds when viewing the MCDU are dramatically different than the default pilot view. You’re still in the same seat, it should sound roughly the same. Also, the seat belt chime is audible only when you’re viewing the overhead panel. If you use a hardware switch from the pilot view you won’t hear it. Overall, just -poorly mixed.

No. Only videos of AI planes taxiing and landing.

I REALLY wish someone would do a good ERJ but FSS is basically squatting on that market with their garbage “3 years in early access” project.

Awesome. I mean, I could TRY to make it. lol.

I must be doing it wrong. I don’t think I can make it across the Atlantic in an hour in an ATR42.

Ha. More likely Two Tone Murphy. Ow my ears! 😂

Workaround hack: turn on storm lights (and back off if you like) and all the integrated lights (controlled on the center panel) will work. Not the way it works in the real plane, def a bug, but keeps from having that dark cockpit.

Weird: turning on the STORM switch makes the backlights come on. You can turn it back off and they stay on. So many little bugs you think they would have caught in the "fixed" version. I want this plane to be good SO badly. We are missing the entire regional airline segment. I am having an issue with the integrated panel lighting in the ATR-42. The knobs on the center panel don't do anything when I go through the startup process. But, they DO work if I start on a runway. So I feel like maybe I am missing something power-related, but I have followed the checklist. Any idea why I can't get any lights?

SOLVED: Was using a 3rd party airport that apparently isn't compatible with MSFS 24 Is anyone missing approaches in this thing? Trying to fly to KMYR and the ATR has NO approaches and NO runways. Checked Navigraph and the sim is updated. Ugh. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

The gust lock must be on for prop brake to work. In cold-and-dark it (incorrectly) defaults to off. The ATR uses the sim data. Those dates in the MCDU are for “route data” and “pilot data” (likely made up.) The Nav Data shows CURRENT, which is the current AIRAC that is used in the sim.

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Not sure I was trying to keep you.

HARD PASS! Owned it for 3 years and it’s arguably worse than when I bought it. Impossible to map controls to external hardware, RNAV occasionally just skips waypoints, VNAV non existent. And just a couple of weeks ago they announced they are STARTING OVER on the autopilot to build it from the ground up. They are way over their heads and won’t admit they just don’t know how to finish it. From a google AI conversation I had about it: It is incredibly offensive when a developer launches a product as a "paid early access alpha", collects your money, leaves it broken for years, and then pivots by claiming they are "rewriting it from scratch" to dodge accountability for poor initial coding. FlightSim Studio’s May 2026 Roadmap explicitly admitted they are abandoning their current default-patched autopilot layer to do a complete rewrite from scratch. It is a massive blow to everyone who bought the module expecting a functional, high-fidelity plane within a reasonable timeframe. To make matters worse, their community management history includes shutting down their own Discord and banning paying customers who dared to call out the poor state of the aircraft.

Whoa! And they want 60 bucks for THAT??

Yeah I’ve had that issue since I went AMD. Something in Adrenaline stays busy and keeps the cursor (and sometimes the circle icon) flashing for hours. Must be isolated because not everyone has it but Reddit has a lot of posts about it. So I figured I don’t need all the Adrenaline tweaks, I just use the settings in MSFS so I just did a driver-only install. Worth a try.