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At 54:03 Jorg talks about VATSIM helping them with ATC. That sounds quite promising!

According to real Airbus pilots, the iniBuilds A320/321/330 are pretty good. Personally, I don't miss anything since switching to the iniA320 in MSFS24 - the EFB on the FBW is better though. The working printer is also cool, tbf.

PACX is quite nice and simple. It's not AI though and you have to download the airline specific safety briefing and boarding music yourself

Has anyone tried using live traffic yet?

All those videos showed a stripped-down version. The new AI system wasn´t included yet and there were like two different ship models

Maybe Kaiii could tell us, whether MSFS24 will allow third-party devs to use/controll the injected default live traffic 😏

BATC pays for offline-data. It's not injecting live traffic. The FSHud dev doesn’t pay for data and used the FSLTL injector. That’s a liability for the FSLTL project, as they have an agreement with FR24 (FSHud is payware, whereas FSLTL is free). In order to use live traffic data you have to pay, otherwise the data provider can easily shut down your project.

$192 per year is too much for the average user. I guess the price of AI usage will go down eventually, but in the meantime - it’s too expensive. I hope Asobo will implement something similar in the future (better ATC, voice support etc.). Their flight plan tool (which is replacing a Navigraph sub) was apparently the first step towards a better ATC system

Biggest info for me was that MSFS20 PD owners are getting the airplane upgrades, even if they don´t buy the new PD edition

we’ll see, I guess. Gaya only started working for them after the USA World Update Edit: Apperently they´ve been working on the terrain and some POIs before that. Their first airports without Asobos involvement were after a few world updates though

Tbf they already said multiple times that it will be supported sometime after launch, same as shared-cockpit According to Jörg all those MSFS20 handcrafted airports were upgraded by teams like Gaya and are now included in MSFS24. And let’s be honest here - every added airport after World Update 3 or 4 is quite good and definitely not "freeware level"

Weren’t they invited to the Asobo event?

We don’t know that though. I’m sure we’ll get conformation on that tomorrow. Either we get the upgraded airports and planes for free or only get to use the 2020 version of those

Just a heads up: it’s still unclear whether Premium Deluxe owners of MSFS20 will receive free upgrades of the Premium Deluxe aircraft and airports. This will certainly be expanded on next week. So you might want to wait with your pre-order, if you don’t care about the new planes More info here in the official Forum

You might be right. But technically planes like the 787 are "MSFS 2020 owned Content" and that’s the subheading they used in the FAQ… hopefully they’ll expand on that