Mike T

Okay, so as an "aviation professional," which ATC addon is okay then? Because - Let me remind you. IT'S. A. GAME. A game! For sale in the game section in stores and on gaming sites. You're the equivalent of a SEAL Team 6 operator complaining that Call of Duty is not realistic enough. So by your standards, MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020 are not okay. PMDG is not okay. BATC is not okay. SI is not okay. FENIX is not okay. Nothing is okay because they're all flawed. Jeeze, I'm admittedly a glass-is-half-empty kind of guy - but you people make me look like a grinning optimist by comparison.

Personally, I blame BATC for the extinction of the dinosaurs, the fall of Rome, and the invention of the term "influencer."

??? GSX doesn't require a profile to work. The only thing a profile does is allows the author to add realistic push procedures and better placement of the pushback truck. Without a profile it works just fine. Not to mention that if the default, "non profile behavior" doesn't suit your needs then you can simply make one yourself and not depend on someone else to do it for you, since all the tools to make one are included for free in GSX.

Use AIG traffic and not FSLTL traffic because the difference in performance is significant. I'm using BATC with 10/10/10 and see little difference in performance vs no traffic at all.

When I'm not stepping on Lego in my bare feet, stubbing my little toe on the bedpost, slamming my fingers in my car door, or losing all of my money gambling in Las Vegas, I use Discord. However, I generally enjoy the aforementioned more than Discord.

Being an airline pilot ceased to have fame and glory in the 1960s. There is little fame and glory in a 4 day trip with 5 legs a day, with a 5:30 am check in each morning. None. Second, yes, you bid your line to maximize income, or to maximize days off. I don't know anyone who says - ooooh, I'll fly KLGA turns all month, so I can challenge myself by flying Stadium Visual approaches or into KDCA to fly River Visual approaches all month. I think the point was, if you look at all the posts, there is little about how much FUN anyone is having, or what a miracle of technology FS 20/24 truely is, warts and all. This is especially true for those of us who started this hobby with just a buch of 8 bit pixelated lines at 2 fps on an 8086 machine. Now I can't believe what I see in front of me, every time I fly. I'm in awe. But it's if no one sees that, it's never good enough, there is no fun in the posts here (anymore - what a place Avsim used to be). I saw a post complaining that there are too many female voices in ATC and everyone knows that's a wrong ratio for female voices in real life! I mean...wow, if Disney World is claimed to be the Happiest Place on Earth, Avsim has to be the most miserable place on earth. So, nothing wrong with wanting the highest fidelity possible in Flight Simulator, but jeeze...stop, look around, look at what we have, and have some FUN!

Moderators - PIN THIS POST. It would make 99% of the posts here absolutely pointless and make your jobs a lot easier (albeit boring!) A game. It's just a game.

Turn off ReBar. I haven't seen a VRAM error since.

I love the scenery. It's an excellent up-to-date rendition and as someone whose company keeps insisting on doing our offsite leadership meetings in Vegas, I know this airport very well. Glideslope captures the look and feel. KLAS is an aging airport that looks the part and Glideslope's rendition is spot on. Performance is also excellent. Best 5 bucks I've spent in a LONG time. Keep em coming...

Ironically, there are no ships in that screenshot either. so...

One other thing that Fenix doesn't do is the Rudder Disc button on my tiller works natively - No configuration required.

Yes WinWing MCDU and FMS work natively.

The issue is not just with SI traffic. BATC traffic crashes it also.

Actually, major airports often require aircraft to take off with a tailwind when the TAF shows the wind shift is only temporary and the tailwind is well within safety margins (below 10 kts). Major airports are unlikely to redirect inbound traffic, and the line of aircraft waiting for takeoff because the wind has changed direction. Doing so causes delays for dozens of flights for no reason. Of course if the wind shift will be for the next few hours or above 10kts they will change runways. With Regional and small airports, it's a different story. With light traffic and no disruptions caused by changing runways there is no reason to take off with a tailwind. So, BATC was probably right to require you take off with a 7kt tailwind. It happens all the time.

After two months of flying in 2024, the biggest issue I've encountered is the VRAM issue, and until the VRAM issue is addressed, 2024 will not be a viable simulator. I just had to scrap a DTW to RSKI run because the VRAM issue brought the sim to a crawl and the IniBuilds A340 instruments stopped responding (other issue?) after wasting an hour of planning and prep. The problem with the VRAM exhaustion issue can rear its head at any time. You go from the never-before-encountered bliss of 100fps at JFK to 1 fps or less (yess LESS than 1 fps) while doing nothing but sitting at the gate. Likewise, you have the best flight of your life with great performance on takeoff and en route, but just as you make your final approach to a complex airport at 80 fps, all of a sudden, you're at 2 fps and attempting to land your stuttering mess. So you've wasted 40 minutes loading and preflighting your aircraft or spent 8 hours flying only to end up not being able to take off or land. Now. If you're a GA pilot you may wonder what Mike T is on about - because I doubt you'll encounter this issue. But tube liner pilots flying into complex airports in complex aircraft, with AI Traffic (you can turn off the AI Traffic and still encounter the issue) see the VRAM warning as soon as they load up the scenery in many cases. Frustratingly, I'm not running everything pegged at Ultra, and I can keep turning down settings per the VRAM warning until I'm running on mid and low, at which point you might as well go back to MSFS 2020 or P3D v6. And yes, I've tried the "auto-config" setting and it can look pretty horrible. I'm running a high-end system with a 4080, and when 2024 is good, it is breathtaking, but when the VRAM issue hits, it ruins everything. The problem then becomes that I'm seeing 5090/4090 users encountering the VRAM issue too, so I'm loath to spend $ 3,000 on a 5090 for nothing. And because I know that my 4080 can run at very high frame rates, at high settings, until the VRAM issue hits there's no way I can justify it. Are any of the beta testers seeing anything better? I DON'T want to go back to 2020, but I never have so much as a peep with it and I know that when I start a flight, I can complete it, which makes it compelling when the new shiny toy has a glaring issue like this one does. Mike T.