Watsi

At some time in the future, guys... At some time, 'The Sims' will be in there. 🙃

Getting live traffic from FR24 (or here, Navigraph) is not as complicated. Yes, you can get data where aircraft XY is located right now. But actually you don't need that precision, especially if you have your own injector (like e.g. BATC does). You just need plain data: what aircraft what airline from where to where and at what time The injector can do the rest. And can sequence on its own.

Well, with some update (I think it was end of last year), they switched to MSFS2024 textures for MSFS2020. So yes, the original 2020 ground textures were better than the 2024 ones. For those, who stayed on 2020, it was a significant change to the worse.

He actually lives near Frankfurt (GER) these days. I guess he lived in Switzerland for some time. And I'm pretty sure he was in the US for a year or so during his school days. That's where he got his thick american accent, and now he either can't get rid of it or is proud of it.

I hope you will give us some results, when the survey is done. 🙂

Well, this comparison (SI=BMW and BATC=Skoda) is a bit off, to be fair. Both addons have their flaws and issues, they're both "unfinished" in one or the other way. And their level of luxury is more like BMW vs. Audi - with one being significantly cheaper. (for me, taking the level of completion into account, it's a bit more like a Skoda vs a Golf, to be honest). For sure both will grow up with time going by. The only question is: when will they be ready to move out of their parents house.

It is available in the VFR version of BATC, which is in the Experimental Version (supporter).

As far as I know, they already did, together with the last patch (1.0.1). Could be wrong. Maybe ask WW about it.

Yeah, it seems they're still in the 'fix tiny things' phase. Although most of the now fixed bugs, I didn't experience. I'm also waiting for some real QoL updates. For example let the user set one of the custom saved flights/configs as the default spawn config. This would also solve many problems with the EFB. Still the jetway wants to connect to the 1L door no matter what (and breaks his back while doing it), even if your position is totally accurate at the gate. I know this is also a scenery/airport problem, but there has to be a way to make 1L (temporary) invisible for the jetway. I have no fps issue here (2020). And no loading issues.

This is getting off the rails. The best time for me to officially say goodbye to this topic. 👋

Actually, if I would leave my house open, and someone sits on my couch and have some beers when I come back. I would appreciate that. (omg, I'm so lonely) 😆

So... if you are from FR24. My impression (not in any way knowing what really happened), hearing FSLTL talking about FR24 in last few years, was that FSLTL had a kind of an agreement with FR24. Again, have no clue what really happened behind the scenes here. The agreement was made because they didn't use it make money out of it. That's what I did read on their discord. But I can be wrong. FSLTL made no money. No one had to pay anything. If there is a way available to get data from FR24, and everybody can access it, I wouldn't call this stealing. At least I would exclude FSLTL from the stealing part, cause no money. No selfish reasons. On the contrary: I asssume many FSLTL users are also FR24 clients. FSLTL does not provide the same product as FR24. Meaning, you won't use MSFS (with FSLTL injected traffic) to check the wordwide traffic and therefore don't use FR24. FSLTL was more of an advertising for FR24. For all the rest, I totally understand FR24.

This was not based on flightplans. This was based on what airplane/airline is parked, is taking off from XXXX at this (live) moment and where is its destination (arriving traffic the same of course). This data was given to the MSFS own traffic engine and MSFS is doing the rest. That's why exact gate positions taxiway routes and takeoff rwys can be different from time to time (to real life). Cause MSFS is doing the actual 'movement' of the planes, decides which rwy is open, etc. I guess FSTraffic (Justflight - payed product) is doing the same but not with live traffic but with flightplans (from some years ago). But MSFS always handles all the aircraft in the end. BATC for example also uses flightplan databases (not up to date too), but handles the traffic in MSFS by itself (so MSFS has nothing to do with all the traffic). It is kind of a must, because MSFS doesn't know what BATC is doing. So BATC has to handle all traffic it 'talks to' - without using the MSFS traffic engine.

Are you sure you have turbulences activated in MSFS? (although I don't know how the 737s behave in 2024, cause I refused to pay the "cup of coffee").

Try to let the autopilot of a B738 or B737 do an ILS approach with normal live weather, but in spring or summer, when the heated fields around the airport produce thermals. Just watch what the autopilot does. The use of puke bags in my plane is at 90% when approaching 25R at EDDF on a summery day. (in 2020 btw. but I assume it's the same in 2024). I have to switch off the ap at some time, to get the plane under control. (2020 turb set to medium). The 777 (at least the 300) is better in that way, cause it has more mass.