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Just came back here to post the same. 😉 LNM is one of the best and most useful addons ever created for a flight sim. Is has so much depth and offers so much options...! I doubt if anyone knows all the ins and outs of LNM (apart from the dev). In fact, everytime a topic comes by about an addon not being available anymore or being abandoned for whatever reason I immediately think DON'T LET IT BE LNM!!! The default interface may look a bit daunting and intimidating (and a bit out of date) but even that can be changed. (Heck, you can even create presets of layouts! I have a preset I use for planning and a preset for taxiing: even the size and placement of the LNM window is being saved with the preset! My taxi preset removes absolutely everything from the interface and only leaves the map in a small window in the lower corner of my (single) screen which I can easily put in front of MSFS during taxi. it's totally awesome!) To be honest: I am not the kind of guy who donates money for freeware but I donated twice for LNM already. Anyway, long story short: if Aivlasoft EFB ever really completely stops (or if you don't want to pay for Navigraph Charts) you should really turn to LNM and check it out. I do think a lot of the things EFB offers are also available in LNM (in some way or another). For instance SIDs, STARs, approaches (with all possible transitions): it's all there. Plus much much much much much much much much much more. (EDIT Sorry for going so off topic LOL)

Ouch, @Bobsk8 , did you know this already...?! This always is a big fear of mine: one of your favorite addons being dropped... More and more (of not all) addons require some sort of online activity nowadays and this means there may always come a day that you can't use the software anymore. Scary stuff.

Be prepared for more er... early access releases the coming months by devs who are trying to get paid for all their hard work before MSFS2024 gets released and their products may become redundant. (Not specifically talking about AS here btw.)

You missed that he (apparently) has no Navigraph subscription and hence an out of date AIRAC.

Don't really know. The main point is that AS Active mode works with weather themes, so one weather type for the entire globe. How they do that (just metar or also other data) isn't that important to me. That sounds good but I suppose you also didn't see a thunderstorm or any other type of weather (different than the one you are flying in) somewhere on the horizon... It's great seeing different types of weather in the distance and to fly towards it or to evade it. AS active mode can't do that. It's all the same everywhere.

As long as the AS active mode depends entirely on presets, so weather themes like you would manually create them, there is no way this will be possible. Weather presets can only deal with one type of weather, period. Not much anyone (apart from MS Asobo) can do about this. The AS active mode is 'nothing but' an automated preset generator that generates presets on the fly based on Metar and switches between them (as) smoothly (as possible) because only one weather theme can be the active one at a time. Now that we know MSFS 2024 won't come with truly historic weather (when someone talks about history I seldom think about the last 24 hours... usually history has to do with things that happened long ago) my only option to fly in different seasons than the current want seems to be AS (active mode). But I don't think I can stand one active weather theme all around me as far as the eye can see... The MSFS default live weather spoiled me. Who knows MS Asobo will open up the API for 3rd party devs with the release of MSFS 2024 and a truly new and full blown weather engine might appear in the future...

Nice for daytime-flights-during-nighttime but personally I want historical weather for something like (for instance) summertime-flights-during-wintertime. So it's a start but not what I was hoping for and not something that gets me excited.

I wonder if picking your nose or something like that would influence how this software works... Wouldn't it see that as motion somehow? (I wear glasses and probably will only use the head tracking.)

How can you connect the phone to the PC in order to make it a fake webcam...?

Anyone using the Trust Tyro Full HD webcam for this? Only costs 22 euro's where I live. I'd like to give Beam a try to replace my trusty old TrackIR but don't want to spend too much money just for a demo. I love TIR but never liked the cable of the Track Clip Pro. Always gets in the way. And I often have light from behind screwing things up.

I think it's because that's what ATC is supposed to do: control traffic. Don't know what's so hard to understand about that.

You are very right when it comes to 'complex', 'hard to get right' and 'wait and see'. Not sure if it will take a long time to approach the quality and depth of P2ATC because I don't know P2ATC well enough to judge that (only from video's) but I do know it will take a long time to approach ANY quality and depth for ANY ATC addon. So as I said earlier: don't go waiting for BATC. It won't be released anytime soon. And if it will live up to the expectations is really unsure. If you want an ATC solution this year spend the money on something you can get right now. Or wait for MSFS 2024 and see (plus hope and pray) if that version also contains some ATC improvements.

Yes, the free (non-US/UK) voices read the instructions phonetically. Works like a charm sometimes but sometimes (totally) not. 😉

Was that a Simbrief plan? FSHud often deviates from it due to weather changes/differences. That's a feature, not a bug. 😉

Yes, I am also very curious to see what they come up with! It's a shame all those ATC devs don't work together. Everyone is trying to invent the wheel from scratch again. Such a waste of precious time. Specially if some solutions aren't of similar quality.