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You can rename the Simultech-KNQX files in the FSDT scenery to .OFF and that will disable the FSDT NAS Key West and allow you to use both. You just have to remember to do that again anytime you update FSDT airports because it will change it back to .BGL

Here’s a little video I did of a flight in the free Delta Simulations C-17 along with SayIntentions AI ATC. I tried to cut down the flight sims to make it not go forever. The AI ATC has a ways to go but it’s already better than default ATC (other than the delay) and you’d never get any other ATC program to work with a flight like this. The C-17 is awesome too. My first time to use it in about a year and it’s had some great updates!

It has warts but it's being worked on and improved on a daily basis. It's already better than default ATC for sure and the ability to just talk to it and get what you want without it being scripted is pretty cool. What impressed me most was military flights. I was able to fly VFR flight following in the Osprey and told them I was going to the "Smokey MOA" for an hour delay and they told me to fly VFR at or below 8500 and to report prior to entering the Smoky MOA. Once operating in the MOA they left me alone but gave me traffic advisories for a GA aircraft that was coming through the area. Then I called them up when leaving the Smokey MOA and RTB back to where I had departed from and it gave me correct instructions. I even requested an overhead approach at the field and it gave correct instructions to report initial and break overhead. I even asked for break direction and it told me a right mid-field break. To me it's these abilities to adapt that they have not even programmed in there yet that are most impressive. The rest will come. I was excited for Beyond ATC and still am....it might be better in some cases. But right now Say Intentions is already here and working better than default ATC which is what I was using. It's also always online unlike VATSIM so I can get that type of experience wherever I want.

LOL, the forum mods over at the MSFS Forums removed my message about sending this video directly to Jorg and placed it into a private message that only the moderators can see: This was their message to me....... I have turned your post into a private message with moderators. It is against the forum’s policy to share private employee contact information or to post about that sharing to get bugs logged when there’s been a proper way of doing so that all follow. Please see this guide on how to report bugs: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/welcome-to-the-public-forums/121637 ----------------------------------------------------- I replied back that I neither shared his contact information nor did I post about that as a way to get bugs logged. I started that bug report 2 years ago over there and it's been logged and that is where it has sat. The answered question in the Q&A showed that they did not understand or could not reproduce the issue so I did what was necessary to draw their attention. I told them I had not violated any policy but whatever....the video is still there for all to see so if they need to hide the fact that I went through other means because their system wasn't working to show what needed to be shown then so be it....

Hopefully they can fix it. I have wondered all along with this being tied to the logbook has been that there is some code that they wrote at the beginning putting the logbook in and then they changed it to have the option to turn it off. My fear is that while that code worked in 2D there is some other behavior in VR and that it's alot more work to tackle or maybe they have to undo everything they did. In that case they may have determined that they don't want to spend time on it and that might be one of the reasons for the response we got. I hope that it's really because he just couldn't see it but I also wonder if it's a deeper problem.

Last night I emailed this video along with a link to the full uncut video and explanation to Jorg Neumann. Based on his history I did expect a response and to my surprise on a Friday evening either at the end of his workday in Seattle or after work he responded to me. It was less than a couple hours after I sent the email. In short he told me they had been discussing this issue after the stream and were planning on looking more into this issue. He is forwarding my email to the team along with the videos. I had mentioned that the issue was time consuming even for me to find (it’s not a 5 minute process) and that I understood they were very busy. He said at the end of the day we all want the same thing and that he still uses his Reverb G2 and flies the sim in VR. It’s easy for me to see that not everyone uses the sim in the same way. Some people don’t have this bug because they don’t ever completely shut down. Not everyone is as “hard core” as a lot of us. I do agree though that someone needs to be doing complete flights in their builds and they would likely catch more issues. The fps degrading after long flights issues was and example where they could have figured that out before. I don’t see that issue much anymore but it took a lot of community feedback to get them to find it. Hopefully this helps. It’s about all I can do anymore at this point to bring the issue to light.

I am the one who posed the question in this week's Q&A about the VR Shutdown Bug. I also originally reported it on the MSFS Forums 2 years ago. I have uploaded a video to YouTube showing the issue. I have emailed this to Jorg along with the full unedited version of the video. Hopefully it will make it to the development team and maybe they will change their tune now that they have directions on how to reproduce it. I was really frustrated with the Q&A answer and basically a dismissal of the problem as "low priority" since they could not see it. However after I spent hours on this today I am willing to cut Martial a little bit of slack. As it turns out you can't just go in and start up and shut down and expect it to happen because it won't. You have to do a full flight. I believe this is because as I have long suspected this is tied to the logbook pop up that was "fixed". By doing a full flight you trigger a logbook entry so when you shut down the bug appears. If you don't take off the logbook does not create an entry and you can shut down without the issue. It would be really great if this works out and they do something about it but at the end of the day I know this is not a priority for them to fix most likely. It's really my only issue with VR in MSFS so I would love to see it gone.

All those reasons given are valid but the main reason is real simple. I can fly whenever I want and wherever I want without having to worry about the VATSIM controller logging off or there not being any coverage to begin with and flying on an unrealistic Unicom frequency the whole time. With this program I get the ATC experience without restriction. To me that makes it worth it. I also had not thought of the implications of true AI vs what BATC is implementing. SI truly uses the AI to generate responses to you like a person. Tonight I had not heard any chatter for awhile and thought I had missed a frequency change. So I asked and the controller said you’re still with me. Then I said ok, well it’s really quiet on the frequency tonight so I wanted to make sure I had not missed it. The AI controller replied with “it is a quiet night tonight but I hope you’re enjoying the peaceful quiet up there this evening”.

There is a delay but nowhere near 1 minute. And IFR does work. It’s new and not bug free. I just tried it all myself this weekend and signed up. For the flaws it has which are being tweaked at an amazing pace it’s miles better than the default ATC and feels like you’re talking to a human on VATSIM or on a radio. I’m impressed. Your post sounds very much like exaggerating flaws to put down the product. I can’t wait to try BATC when it comes out as well and make a decision what to stick with. It might be that I wait on BATC to mature a little bit because right now SI has both VFR and IFR and it seems BATC is going to be IFR only at release.

If you don't want a Navigraph subscription then get Open Kneeboard for VR. It's fantastic and you can set up different profiles per aircraft and it gives you a kneeboard in VR that you can write on as well if you get a compatible tablet (relatively cheap on Amazon). If you want to get a tablet get the Wacom as I had some problems with the other one. Anyway, even if you don't get a tablet you can still use it to display most any type of document meaning you could download your approach plates for the flight and have them in your VR headset easily. I use it also for my checklists and any other documents that I want. It's compatible with both MSFS and DCS World among others. Can't recommend it enough. Oh and it's free!

That's great! Thanks for serving! We go to Fort Walton Beach/Destin every few years and I've done some photography of planes landing and taking off from Hurlburt and is one of my places in the sim to fly sometimes so I wanted to at least get a good looking airfield done with default objects as the base airfield in the sim was not good at all.

wow that's quite a long flight! I've enjoyed some CV-22 flights around Hurlburt while building it and hopefully a proper C-130J will be coming to the sim one day soon!

To keep my sanity while working on a payware project I put together a quick freeware project for MSFS with the help of John Young from MAIW and Andy Carroll (AIG). Thanks to them for granting permission of their models to be used as static aircraft in this scenery. Hurlburt Field is now available as freeware at flightsim.to https://flightsim.to/file/60189/hurlburt-field-fl-usaf-khrt

I don't know your specs but in VR there is stuttering with OSTPC set to anything other than Ultra. It stutters as it is loading in objects and removing them as you are looking around in VR. I had stutters and all I changed was setting that to Ultra and then they were gone.

I use a combination of Navigraph Charts and Open Kneeboard which was mentioned above. Open Kneeboard works in any OpenXR application so I also use it in DCS World. You can buy pretty affordable drawing tablets that are compatible with Open Kneeboard and then not only can you view pdf files inside VR you can also write on them with the tablet inside VR. With these two things I never take my headset off for any reason. You can get by with just the Navigraph charts if all you are wanting to do is view charts. With Open Kneeboard though I just save my simbrief flight plan as a pdf and add it to the kneeboard before my flight and its all available in there plus I can write on it to put down ATIS, Clearance, etc. Yes it's more money to spend but it's the best way of doing it that I am aware of.