DChockey08

I've been working on a few apps to augment AI in the sim, all built using Claude Code (for personal use only - dumb things like Airshow, departures boards, even have managed to get ground services for AI aircraft, etc.)...all seems to work well. One thing that I've always hit a brick-wall with is getting jetways to connect to the aircraft, as they are not controlled by the simulator, but by my apps (i think this is identical to the way BATC, SIAI and FSHUD are doing it)...and they have always said its impossible given sim limitations, so I always gave up when looking through the API. Now, it looks like the team at BATC have been able to get around the limitation and are releasing something soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tDUBWBQDaM&pp=ygUKYmV5b25kIGF0Yw%3D%3D Anyone have any idea what method they have used to get around the sim-limitation? Hats off to them, this is game changing, and I hope other developers will follow suit.

I'm not saying that this is going to fail, but I will say that i highly skeptical. BATC, SIAI, FSHUD have been at this for years, all with various uses of AI (especially SIAI) and all of them are struggling with traffic handling. its enormously complex even with the rapid progression of AI. Also, to have [BETA] in the title, while not having a single screenshot or video? Give me a break. This is pre-alpha. Best of luck to you sir, I wish you success. But let's not be snake-oil salesmen here.

You don't have to deliberately misunderstand what I'm saying... "This feature on this new vastly sim is not as good as this exact feature on the older sim" doesn't have to be met with "if you're not happy, go back"

Thanks for the heads up; hopefully that works. To be clear: my frustration is being forced to update the sim the moment it releases (something that was never a requirement before MSFS), not that developers don't immediately have updates ready.

It's not a beta, this is the actual Sim Update release. I've opted out of beta. No choice but to update if you want to run the sim.

Tonight was the one night this week I could actually sim and now Asobo drops this mandatory update stuff that breaks compatibility. Why!?

Seeing those images of the old Iberia livery on the front page and I am ready to throw my money at the screen.... Has anyone seen a full livery list anywhere?

FFS why do I have to update the sim as soon as they release an update instead of staying on the old version? Knowing this will break a whole bunch of stuff that will take a few days to fix. I miss P3D sometimes.....

None of the major traffic injectors are perfect IMO betwen SIAI, BATC and FSHud. But FSHud is the best there is right now. Almost wish it was a subscription service so that we could get some more active development, like SIAI.

I don't know what you all are dealing with in terms of difficulties, but I have ADE working fine for editing sceneries for P3Dv6? Maybe the difference is I also have v5 installed and thus I just load ADE in "v5 mode" and edit v6 sceneries. Never had an issue. ADE V01.79.7475 Dev

Definitely looks like a non-publlic release, oh well, back to v6.

Very true, but to be clear: this doesn't mean this won't be available to port into P3D or as a new "version" available to consumers. We know LMs simulators are geared towards this audience, but that doesn't mean we can't reap the benefits as we always have 🙂

....its 12:30pm EST. Patience. From their website it seems they are revealing it at I/ITSEC which is going on as we speak. So that would indicate this is of course meant for their commercial customers but we will see how it can maybe link to us lowly consumers. "4. New Simulation for All Environments We’ve quietly developed a state-of-the-art simulation engine that will serve as the backbone for all of our training solutions. It will also be available for integration into training solutions currently in the field. See it first at I/ITSEC."

Even if we assume this is v7 or something replacing P3D that is available to the consumer community... I'm not sure what to make of this. v6 was a huge step forward from v5 IMHO just for the Lighting / Atmospherics improvement...but not a big enough step forward to bring developers back to P3D. I use v6 and I already have to spend a lot of time tweaking to install things and make them work properly, so the idea of another version removed from the latest supported version of P3D would only make that work (if it's even possible at all to make old versions work). Still excited to see what this will bring, though.

Thankfully I was wrong too. I do hope the developer looks in to removing the server necessity for the tool to run (after it’s been activated, of course) in case for some reason we no longer have access one day.

Still down for P3Dv6.

Huge shame that we are about to lose such a pivotal tool just because it has no online access.

Just checked, still down. Have raised a ticket. A quick search shows this has happened before, and was a more widespread .Net problem...so hopefully that's what this is and it will be back up soon. We'll see.

When starting FFTF this weekend, I'm getting the following message: “Offline usage limit reached: Application cannot connect with FSPS servers. Please get online or allow traffic for FSPS applications through your firewall”. Seems like it's happened before based on a quick search. Anyone else having this issue? On a side note, I absolutely cannot stand how I've paid money for these products that absolutely have no reason to be connected to the servers at all, and my continued usage of them all depends on whether or not the company keeps their servers online.

A few things have changed (some gates / jetways in the C/D complex, but i would say its 99% accurate to today's standards). The one thing it doesn't have it (obviously) the new concourse under construction which is expected to be operational some time in 2026.

What version did you roll back to and how did you do it?

Pretty scummy of them to sell this product and say it is Legacy with no support. If you look at the sales page for P3Dv6, is does not list it as a legacy product nor include a "no support" disclaimer: https://parallel42.com/products/chaseplane-professional Compared to the P3dv5 and below version that clearly has the disclaimer: This product is sold in its current state. It will not receive further updates or active support from //42. Please ensure compatibility with your sim and note all requirements before purchasing. https://parallel42.com/products/chaseplane-legacy

Thanks Ray. Ill give this a try when I get off work this afternoon and report back.

I honestly think this is better world coverage for photorealistic than MSFS simply because it’s not streamed. No matter what happens it will always live on my ssd. I don’t have to worry about server access.

I noticed the exact same problem come out of nowhere last weekend. I assume considering a few of us are having the issue that it has to do with some Windows update. Seems to be somewhat minimized if I place Chaseplane in the foreground.