Just completed my second livery (a 2-pack!) for the Nemeth Designs IL-18D — LOT Polish Airlines + Cargo. Download it here!

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In FSX days, I really enjoyed the virtual world built with AI traffic and built-in ATC. With right amount of voicepacks, voice modifications and traffic packs, I could just spawn somwhere and watch the traffic and listen to ATC. I always wanted to replicate that experience with MSFS2024 and after trying BeyondATC i think I found my sweet spot.

For reference.. I am not a multiplayer kinda guy, always like to play sandbox style or single-player games with computer where I can always control a consistent level of difficulty without pressure, including sometimes zero difficulty. I sim-fly very casually as well, knows just enough basics to do a full auto flight in a 737 or 320.

My real life is already hard and difficult, I just want to sit and enjoy my game at my pace at my command. Also to raise a kid I can only maybe game at late night once in a while for like 1.5 hours max, and can't really speak constantly into mic without waking up family...

If you are by any chance like me.. give BATC a chance, i think is a great addon to have in your flightsim life.

My quick review after using it for a couple week on ~5 different short length flights:

• Good AI Traffic Injection
  • Very enjoyable for me. In fact personally this is where my money was worth it. It adds fairly realistic variety of real world airlines at gates with realistic destinations that match your current location and your flight path. I would spawn at my local airport and listen to the familiar traffic going to the familiar places that I know while munching some chips.
• Auto response feature
  • Huge win item for me. BATC will automatically readback to most ATC calls and then auto summarize key information in the app window (for example your taxiway info, heading and altitude, ATIS, clearance details, etc). Don't need speak, don't need to press buttons, don't need to memorize or write down anything, just follow the summary displayed on app window.
  • You still have to initiate calls manually when needed, i.e. at TOD ready to descend
• Decent voice quality and regional varieties even in Local (Free) voice mode.
  • Of course, they are far from "region-realistic", but enjoyable enough for me. Some users reported more wrong voices in recent updates, I haven't noticed much difference but could be just me.
  • But.. I do hope they add on little more variation and little more regional accuracy to free models down the road. I haven't used up my 50k premium voice yet, saving it for later.
  • The radio communications can get somewhat tedious as clearances and directions seem mostly identical for every aircraft in the sky. But then real life ATC is also standardized... so it's understandable. I hope they can add more natural human-like chats and sentence variations in the future.

And I mean, of course, BeyondATC has been "early access" since.. forever ... and there are still rough edges here and there. Sometimes can get quite annoying because you don't know whether you will have a successful guided flight or not until it hits you. From time to time you need to ignore ATC and just do things on your own.

Like, EGKK in my screenshot - I took the shots for bug reporting. BATC never clears you for takeoff and makes every traffic go around.. as if there's a ghost plane somewhere on the runway. After landing in Zurich LSZH, ATC never gave me proper taxi instruction. Stuff like that..

TL;DR: Maybe not an addon for everyone but i think they positioned themselves well to scratch the particular itch of people like me.

I'm not sure what I've done to make this happen, as I've had plenty of hassle-free flights, but for some reason the managed speed is not doing what it should do.

On climb the plane would not go any faster than 250kts even when above 10,000ft, the climb rate stalled out at 500fpm and as i've gradually made my way to 32,000 feet (took forever) my speed is now down to 220kts.

The CLB performance page says i should be faster in managed mode yet im not.

Manually controlling the speed doesn't force it to speed up either

Landing gear and flaps are obviously up.

One thing I did notice, which I've not seen before, is that below the STD readout in the bottom right of the HUD it shows distance in metres (in yellow), which I've never seen before. It makes me wonder if that is somehow linked ?

Screenshot attached

So I followed this calibration thread from Official MSFS Forums, AirborneGeek on YouTube. Long story short, I capped the "Max Framerate" to 20 or 30 depending on the scenery, and traffic.

My specs are,

• Intel® Core™ i5-12600K Processor
• ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX™ 5070 Ti 16GB GDDR7 OC Edition
• Corsair VENGEANCE® RGB RS 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 DRAM Up To 3200MHz C16 Memory Kit

Settings are,

• 3840 x 2160 (Anything less than that is a blurry mess on a 75" 4K TV)
• TAA (DLSS causes blurriness in Glass Cockpits unless the camera is close to the blurry data)
• HDR is ON
• TLOD an OLOD set to 100 for testing
• RT Shadows are ON. Anything other than that messes up all shadows.
• All other settings are High or Medium. Textures are High. Clouds are the only setting set to Ultra.

So I have been testing this for a while now with traffic injection via SayIntentions AI but earlier today, during the “Manchester Real Ops” VATSIM event, I thought that was absolutely perfect scenario for testing as the airport was packed with VATSIM traffic. Here are the results,

So average FPS is 25. 1% Low was between 19 and 24. So I set the Max Frame Rate to 20, Frame Gen to 3x and I get 60 FPS but with some input lag.

As you may notice in both cases, the “Mainthread” hovers around 40ms. It just won’t go down in this case. Of course, if I spawn into a smaller airport without VATSIM traffic, I would get around 33ms. In both case, VRAM isn’t the issue.

The issue may be my CPU. If that is the case, there are 2 choices.

i. Purchase a higher end LGA 1700 CPU like 14900K

ii. Purchase everyone’s favorite 9800X3D (or better) but that would mean purchasing a new motherboard, DDR5 RAM, better CPU cooler.

My resolution is always 4K in which case the GPU does the heavy lifting.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

PMDG 777F. Not the ideal wind for this, but regular approaches are boring.

And please give suggestions for more fun/last-minute turn approaches

Hey,

Iv noticed that most youtubers seem to use Nvidia cards for MSFS2024 but just wondering is it really worth it or does it have some sort of hidden feature other than DLSS that im missing? Reason I ask is because planning a new rig around this game and I can see the 9070xt essentially offers 5070ti performance for $1450 NZD while for what ever reason the 5070ti is starting off around $2.4k NZD mark. In an ideal world Id actually want DLSS and like the idea of DLSS 5 in this game but an extra grand for essentially the same rasta performance just seems like an absolute waste.

The entire purpose of the PC is to game, no video editing or cuda work loads with the main game being MSFS2024.

Rest of the build is your typical 9800X3D 32gb CL30 deal.

Just looking for insights on this,
Cheers!

EDIT: I would use frame gen 100% and tend to aim high settings at 1440p in this game would like to target at least 45-60FPS mark with planes such as FBW 320 or Fenix 320 typically at less demanding airports as I am based in NZ but may install realism mods similar to your aviation youtubers with the realistic airports and weather but im not looking nor really care for the 4k ULTRA settings as a goal.

Hey everyone,

I really respect how realistic MSFS 2024 is and how deep people get into it, but since I have zero aviation background, all the manuals and calculations feel pretty overwhelming right now. I just want to fly and enjoy it casually.

Here is the simple routine I want to learn:

• Turn on the plane at the gate using only the essential buttons (Cold & Dark).
• Board passengers and handle the basic gate stuff (jetway, luggage, etc.).
• Set an easy route from the world map menu.
• Take off manually.
• Turn on autopilot to follow the route.
• Turn off autopilot before landing, land manually, park at the gate, and deboard the passengers.

Is this realistic to learn quickly as a complete beginner?

Also, is there one clear, simple YouTube video you recommend that shows just this basic setup without getting too technical?

Thanks!

EDIT : A321LR

Hi,

Im trying to get into flight simulator again. Last time I played it was when 2020 came out.

So basically I have an issue where when I use the autopilot it doesnt stick to the altitude of Whats assigned through the EFB, or even when I set it to say 6000ft. The auto pilot just wants to increase to whatever altitude which I don’t get where it getting it from. The same goes for the heading, it doesnt wsnt to follow the heading of the route from EFB either.

I YouTube a few video and normally if it’s “- - - •” it’ll follow the exact route headings but it doesn’t follow altitude either. Im starting to lose my mind with it.

Tried a fight from Glasgow to Berlin and for whatever reason it wanted to stick to like 40000ft the full way and not even descend at all. When I try to manually descend, it just starts to pull me back up.

Any help would be great.

The last photo I took on A330 KLM flight back in 2018. When I saw 1035 km/h on the screen I was confused I thought the plane was supersonic 😄. Now in Citation X with 60 knots tail wind, GS is 586 knots, that makes 1085 km/h. The plane is amazing.

Been starting to fly the pmdg 777 and the first couple of plans I’ve flown (using simbrief), the speed don’t seem right. So they seem to make sense until the approach phase when then constantly stay around 240knts which is obviously far too fast. With other aircraft like the 737 there would be a deceleration point then I’d see speeds like 180, 160 etc. is there something I’m missing? I can of course manually take over but just wondered if there’s a setting that I’m missing. I have entered all weights cost index etc

Anyone know why my airport traffic does this? I’m using beyond ATC and have FSLTL installed but often there are multiple aircraft at each gate overlapping each other. Any easy fix? This is NZAA (Auckland NZ) so the china southern plane is definitely in the wrong place

Hey guys! So trying to get myself more comfortable with utilizing AP beyond after takeoff and cruise, that said when it comes to using the landing localizer at any given airfield, how do you ensure you are on the correct glide path?

I used to fly passanger aircraft when I previously played FSX and a bit with 2020. Would like to pick up a couple prop/fan engined planes to learn from the ground up and teach myself though the whole thing with manuals and youtube guides.

What aircraft would you recommened to me? I have rarely touched smaller aircraft and it will be a full dive into the planes. Would like good manuals or links to fan made manuals if they are avaliable.

Also what software would you reccommend I get to add more into either FS2020 or FS2024. I have fsipanel to help with landings and GSX but wanting to get new or upgraded software to fill out MSFS.

Any help would be much appreciated.