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Another day, another commercial advertisement on Avsim.

Okay let me give you an example: Can FSCrew handle when you do not extend the flaps after engine start or do the flight control check because of freezing conditions outside? And do it right before takeoff instead? Or can it handle to leave the A320 in flaps1 on very hot days after landing?

Depends on how often / much you use MSFS. You can download a lot of stuff, but photogrammetry (which you can turn off) and satellite photos you can't. This will eat up 80GB very quickly. Can't you just "unlimit" your internet? It's rare these days to have a volume limited internet at home.

Why not? It's not like it's a Concorde. You can do all stuff alone in the A380 just fine, even following real life procedures (obviously doing the FO stuff yourself). It's a very automated airplane and there's a reason Airbus tried to make the A350 (which is just an updated A380 avionics suite) single-pilot. What would kill immersion much more for me would be a FO that just follows the script no matter the situation, like it usually happens with FS2Crew etc., and that I would have to work around ("No don't turn the seat belts off, it's a thunderstorm, I will have to turn them on again"...)

The A350 is a tad below the A380 in regards to performance and overall polishment. But as others said, A350v2 will likely get the same treatment, so they'll end up on the same level I suppose. ini did a great job on the A380.

It's not. There are certain leg types that default navdata cannot do. I'm too lazy to look it up, but you'll find @Aamir on the Fenix discord has talked about that a couple of times.

Vibecoding implies that there are no developers. Developers wouldn't have to vibecode, but would use AI as an instrument in development (which is totally fine)

It's pay-to-win or something the like. You earn (or purchase with real money, I assume) "aeros", which is the virtual currency, and need that to get new stuff etc. You can also buy "supporter packs" for 25 dollars, which give you new stuff Definitely not "excellent freeware" as the tag suggests. It's a commercial product

That's what BeyondATC and (to a much smaller degree) SI are doing.

So first flight with the A380 - and I love it. It's in an astonishingly well state, even more so considering it's iniBuilds. It feels so good when handflying or taxiing. It's pure fun

ini has just publically asked for Embraer pilots to contact them. That's why CarlAnthony hopes for the E-Jets next

This is so obviously entirely vibe coded that I wouldn't hold my breath for it.

The thing that should make you worry is that they haven't bothered fixing their old sceneries, even though fixing the approaches shouldn't take more than a minute. That's already a no go for me.

They would definitely be first with a 767, and of course they'd be able to create a decent E-Jet (for a change). If the Bluebird 757 turns out as great as it seems, I would wait for their 767 though.

You need no Navigraph for BATC. It works just the same without Navigraph. You only need the Navigraph subscription if you absolutely want to have live traffic.

An A320 can fly 180kts without problems though? In flaps 1 at least.

No, both are injected via simconnect (which has a varying smoothness depending on the amount of simconnect connections and the FPS in the sim). On the ground it would be indistinguishable, enroute they follow the live traffic positions

It's the same on their A330 IIRC. The clickspots are also notoriously difficult to hit on the walkaround

That's a good question. They must have had some huge roadblocks with the VNAV update, as this is going to be first and from what I've heard it's actually the only thing preventing the NEOs entering beta.

Yes, at least judging by the videos. E.g. they get the departure frequency with the clearance which is a US-only thing

Yep complexity for no gain is an Italian speciality, as I can tell from personal experience 😑

That's part of the equation, absolutely.

The developer knows, thank you Ray. You can safely assume that the developer of an ATC tool that sold 10000s of copies knows enough about that stuff. As we're not in real life and no one is going to die, the reasoning is different: Do you really need to tell the user that he's missed a constraint? Does it somehow break the rest of what ATC planned for you? Among those 50.000 - 100.000 BATC users there's all kind of people - those that know their stuff and airplane, those that don't, those that do but don't care, those that watch TV and forget about their airplane etc. You need to make sure you cater to all of them as much as possible without giving up your own vision. That needs compromises. I'll give you an example of something that has been a point of discussion from the very start: Should BATC enforce readbacks? There's thousands of users that would answer that with a "no, I don't want to have to repeat myself if voice recognition gets a very long taxiway readback wrong, it's more annoying than helpful" and then there's thousands of "Readback is essential, it's ATC's job!" users. Up until now the BATC devs have kept the readback enforcement, while other apps (SI) have never had that in the first place ever. My personal opinion: While enforcing a readback is an important part of real life ATC, for something as fragile as long taxiway route readbacks and assuming that most failed readbacks are not the user misunderstanding but rather voice recognition getting a letter wrong, I'd prefer putting the user experience first and just accept any readback whether it's judged correct or not.

I get the idea of using all that flight rating SLC has and make a career out of it, but as said above, this doesn‘t seem to be too in depth. Also wondering about the flight schedules (I only fly real schedules), because they cost money and not little. The thing with career addons with me is that they are either too restrictive or too liberal. Sometimes both. For example with APL2 I hated that I couldn‘t set the length of a schedule, so if I wanted to do long haul flights, I had to do 10 of them. Then on the other hand it didn‘t care about which aircraft I fly in the sim and that also felt stupid.

One would think, but the only situation I remember where the pitch in the Fenix seemed „off“ and really sensitive was when I was playing around with it and creating stalls.