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Thank you! Forgot to mention I found it!

Did the flight with GSX and BeyondATC. Plane "felt" much like the 2020 version to me. A bit more agile than I would have thought for such a large plane but having never flown an A380 IRL, it was fine to me. Frames were very good and almost all of the flight the FPS were rock solid. No resource warnings. ILS capture was fine. Managed speeds seemed to stay below what the "tape" was recommending on decent, but again, as a non IRL A380 pilot, not sure if that's a real thing. If you liked the A380 in 2020, I think the A380 is better and you do not need a texture mod (as FBW stated) to enjoy it. PS: Of some note, BeyondATC did not connect to the onboard radio. I do not know if that is an FBW issue or a BATC issue. Also, of note, GSX could NOT push the plane from the gate. The dialogue was normal, but the plane would not move, and the GSX initial pushback process would reset. Use the onboard tug if you fly this with GSX. Huge thanks to FBW for the free aircraft. I think most of us appreciate you guys at FBW as well as a good aircraft.

Initial test of the A380 for me: At Drzewiecki Design KEWR with traffic (plane and ship traffic active) Random thoughts: I set my system for 40 FPS and have 3x Frame gen on. System held rock solid 40 FPS. The OIS doesn't seem active (the 2020 version is), but I did not load a Simbrief FP. All the controller settings from the 2020 version worked in the 2024 version. Could not find if there was a different SB profile. Cockpit viewpoint seemed a little off. Did not see any functional additions to the KKCU. Graphics in the cockpit seemed sharper. No RAM warning notices at all. (Repeatedly looked towards NYC) Next, I'll take a flight from EWR-IAD and test flight and systems. Right now, it seems way friendlier (as far as frame rates and resource use) than the 2020 version. For reference: i13900k (Mild OC), 32GB RAM, 4090

As someone living close to Manhattan, I’d love to see what you guys are seeing from the new World Trade Center. Then there are the bridges that haven’t been fixed (the ones where AI interpreted the shadow beneath as buildings). However, this sim is still the best I’ve ever seen so I can’t complain too much.

I hope they have an option for resolution. While I can do a higher resolution, I'd be fine with 2K and give everything else more overhead. (4090RTX) Other than that, I'm a huge fan of the A380 and will probably get it day 1.

Side Question I do not have any friends who sim. Is there a Discord for people looking for group flights? OP mentioned being 100 miles apart. Is there latency an issue if you're doing a flight with someone 2500 miles away, is it doable. I'd definitely like to try a complex flight of a few hours with a real co pilot for a more real feel to complex procedural simming.

Does anyone know if the HNL is an upgrade over the old FSDT HNL? Also i was considering grabbing the ini HNL anyway, but the weird elevation shown in the snapshot, makes me think I better do some research first.

Dume question from me. If I deviate from my SimBrief flight plan, does this mean BATC will look at where I am and populate based on that or is traffic only created around my reality bubble? (Or am I totally wrong on traffic injection technique?)

The program worked flawlessly on my end if someone wanted to know how it performed. I see from the screenshots that I need to update but I guess I won’t have a chance now… Thanks for the guenseli. I appreciated your work for the flight sim community.

I went from instant purchase to nothing. As said here before, the marketplace would have worked for most of us. If the claim is that it’s “it’s not going away “ then I’ll get used to default buildings and call it a day. Bad enough that we have several passwords to remember and then they are trying to impose a password or background application per scenery? No thank you.

Can’t wait to see it! Nice surprise.

This looks SO much better then the previous version. The new dark mode is especially appreciated. If I HAD to complain I do not like the stationary right pane on the forums, but that's not a huge deal for me. I know people don't like change, particularly regimented folks who are into structured flight, but try to give it a chance!

I'm looking forward to this scenery, but I'm not looking forward to yet another flight sim app and another password.

My test flight is KEWR to KIAD. Or KEWR to KBOS.

Second flight from EWR to YYZ. Excellent Clearance and ground ops. For whatever reason that was a backlog of planes trying to take off from DD's KEWR 22R. I was 7 for takeoff. Planes were landing as they were supposed to on 22L. Not sure what happened there, but I waited awhile like I would if this was a real situation and then I just taxied through and took off. Got chastised a bit and got the "Bad Pilot" info block in BATC but it was worth the chuckle. Enroute, BATC was again excellent. Descent, landing changed from 15L to 5. (That was pretty good as it was a nice flurry of activity to get setup properly for the change.). Cleared to descend via the LINGG3 STAR, no issues. Again, there was an aircraft behind me getting some interesting speed demands, but not a major issue. This time the leave fix XXXXX at XXX degrees worked fine. Good landing on 5, nice taxi instructions to the gate. Overall, very nice. As the snark is sometimes heavy in AVSIM land, let me explain. I'm posting these so people can read what an average BATC airline (IFR) user is experiencing to see if it's "not there yet" versus just harping on one or two things. (I'll VFR to the VFR experts)