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Yeah performance is all over the place with this thing, much worse than Fenix on my system and that's despite using the no cabin version with the performance mode activated in the OIS. Still so many bugs...not sure why they added this silly engine cover things either as it's completely unrealistic. No pilot ever has to remove engine covers on a walkaround on an A350, those things only get used in long term storage. This plane has so much potential but continues to fail to live up to it.

Update 1.0.7 is out. Apparently the last weekly update, expect a slower pace of releases from now on. And still no fix for the BATC autotune...yawn.

"Queued Button Replies is allowing the user to submit requests via button control while the comm is busy with traffic speaking". I agree that would be a neat feature but again, there just seems to be a big discrepancy here in terms of what the features actually add and how much work they seem to me (fully admitting I'm a layman). I mean take this one here, queued button replies...I'm by no means an expert but all it really seems to be is keeping the button options on screen when someone else is talking, allowing me to press the option I want and it then just queues it and sends it when someone else is done talking on the frequency. Do they really insist that's a "feature"? I can't imagine that's very hard to code at all and should just be done anyway. Same with GSX integration...it already exists with various aircraft, so if all it does is speak via API or whatever and tell GSX what gate BATC has assigned me after landing...that doesn't sound like much of a feature. CPDLC would be a proper new feature. Or unlocking diverts... those things actually sound like a lot of work.

Not sure if people have seen it, but there's currently a poll on the BATC Discord to vote on the next Community feature. You can cast your vote until Sunday. As it stands it looks like this: GSX Integration - 42% CPDLC - 21% Seamless Turnaround - 19% Divert to Simbrief Alternate - 10% Queued Button Replies - 8% I struggle a bit with the current ranking but apparently that's what people want. Not sure how much benefit GSX integration is, I mean what is that even supposed to do? Link with the gate I'm assigned by BATC? I'm usually requesting a different one anyway...all this to save me pressing 2 buttons in GSX, great "feature". I also really don't get seamless turnaround. It's literally going to BATC, pressing ESC and reloading the flight plan. How it's almost tied with CPDLC, which in my opinion would be a proper new cool feature is beyond me. The 2 I'd be excited about are CPDLC and Diversion, but looks like the community is lazy and prefers whatever GSX integration is, which I find pretty disappointing as a big "community feature". Historic weather is another one I'd love so that I don't get discrepancies when using the 24hrs historic live weather in 2024. I really expected more here...

Performance mode unloads certain elements that are not in view or something like that - no idea what it actually does behind the scenes. The no cabin model can be selected when you choose your livery. I fly with both, no cabin and performance mode, and performance is still worse than Fenix in MSFS2024.

Brilliant news, instant buy! They really set the standard.

And still no fix for the BATC autotune issue…

BATC no longer works - posted on their discord that something changed with regards to reading the Community folder. Long list of fixes indeed but I struggle to see anything that tempts me to join the beta so far (unlike SU1).

GSX seems to trigger updates for the Fenix that aren't actually updates. Not sure what files GSX alters that get updated each time...

Love it. "Speedbird 28 Heavy, turn left heading 300 and fly a loop the loop for separation, cleared ILS 27R". If you don't like checklists and procedure, perhaps it's time to find another hobby? It's not like ATC mix things up a lot in real life. It's all a well orchestrated dance simply because it's all based on rules and standard procedures. Not like Heathrow Tower decides to spice things up today and clears you to random altitudes - it's the same vectors and altitude clearances 99% of the time.

Hard to imagine how they could make this any clearer. I guess that's why some countries have warnings like "don't drink the drain cleaner" and "don't put your cat in the microwave"...

I think the player.log file in your BATC installation folder contains a record of instructions and readback.

You're wrong, it was proven. There is plenty of proof out there, even here on avsim. There are screenshots from the SI Discord where they ran competitions and offered prizes for people posting positive reviews and sending back proof of their praise. Someone from the SI team even replied to a thread here saying something along the lines of "we realise what we did was wrong and they would change their approach". SI also sent themselves a celebratory cake from the BATC devs and posted a video about it on Youtube. Only problem is that the BATC guys said they never did such a thing. SI have proven over and over that they can't be trusted and that they are willing to do anything to aggressively push their product. The only thing that's "shameless" here is the behaviour of SI.

And you had to open yet another thread about this to bash BATC? Why not use one of the half a dozen or so others have already opened in the last 48hrs to express your opinion. Or do you have to post proof that you started the thread to win in SI's "Bash BATC week" competition? Nothing to see here, totally normal that we suddenly have endless threads all just criticising BATC... Funny as well this happens days after they won the Flight Sim Awards. This must have really upset the folks at SI to now switch tactics from spamming positive reviews about SI to review bombing the competition. For what it's worth, I really enjoy BATC!

Rarely read such unfounded nonsense. Ini themselves have commented on it on their forums and stated that it’s proving more difficult than they had thought to fix it. So ini themselves have acknowledged it’s their issue to fix. Try again.