Anyone else hate the taxi ribbons?

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Huge blue glowing things that float above the ground, pass right through the floor of cockpits and generally kill the immersion cos the Xbox generation are used to augmented reality.

Once upon a time, in motor racing games for example, instead of a HUD flashing at you, you got little popup windows in the corner that showed you a picture of the fella waving the flag…or your pit board being held up…or whatever, rather than a made up glowing graphic flashing on screen. Would it be so hard to have had the taxiway number signs glowing or flashing or something to tell us which way to go?

Even though the unobtrusive little yellow ‘progressive taxi’ line in FSX was, more or less, the same thing…it was done better than these big blue floating arrows AND we had the option to turn it on/off without wading through option menus. This is 2020, this sim is supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread, but this feature has not improved.

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It is a feature you can switch off in assists. I did. Same with all the other markers.

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And how then, do you find your way around an airport without an airport taxiway map?

I’d quite like the same options we had in FSX…turn it on to see where you’re supposed to go and then turn it back off again so’s not to kill the immersion. In FSX you could do that from the ATC menu, in FS2020 you’ve gotta pause the game and go to the options menus. That doesn’t sound like much but it really does make a huge difference to immersion.

EDIT: Unless, of course, anyone is aware of a key combo I can set to toggle visibility of the taxi ribbon? That’d solve the issue for me.

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I find my way by using charts and reading ATC taxi instructions. Wouldn’t mind a follow-me vehicle now and then to be honest.

Don’t think there’s a keyboard command to toggle assists on and of AFAIK

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Its a big large. I seem to remember the ribbon in FSX was much smaller and a better colour wasn’t it?
Xps is yellow and works quite well.

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I remember it being like that :smiley:

Yes - the current lines are a bit obnoxious - I don’t argue that. I’m just the kind of person who doesn’t like them, doesn’t want them and finds more enjoyable to look at a chart and figure out just where the ATC is sending me. Other than a follow-me and progressive taxi instructions, which are not provided by MSFS ATC, there are no other alternatives to charts in real world either.

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■■■■■, of all the things to decide to hate…blue bloody taxi ribbons…

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No I like the blue ribbons :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Bug report to reduce size and invasion into aircraft has been submitted by a number of users.

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/offtopic
I think we are more than capable to hate many things simultaneously :smiley:

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Totally agree, the FSX was done better and so much quicker and easier to turn on or off.

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I think the taxi ribbons are superfluous because an arrow at the end of the way shows where to go. If taxi straps are wanted, they should be a little deeper so that they are not visible in the plane and a little more discreet. The current ones look like a toddler has painted something with a pen. The taxi ribbons should only be displayed when a button is pressed and only as long as the button is pressed, and it should be possible to link them to a joystick button. I see the same thing with the display of the landing corridor, which is also drawn in exaggerated bold.

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Would prefer something similar to the taxi ribbon used in FSX.

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Yeah I prefer the chart method too, a bit more realistic.

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How are you using charts to determine where ATC is sending you when the taxiways in the sim don’t match the real taxiways? I would prefer to use charts as well, but they don’t match up so i feel forced to turn on the horrible blue ribbons

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In my limited use (I have since stopped using built in ATC), the taxiways matched up at EGKK, EGSS and EGGW. Yes, I got some ‘interesting’ routing at EGKK, but it took me where I needed to be.

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I currently use them but plan to turn them off soon. I agree that they could have gone with something a little more discreet…

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I also don’t like the taxi line.
But lets be realistic this Sim is for everyone and more then 50% don’t know where to taxi to or have charts.

I don’t think it need to be that thick, but maybe in time they will fix it.

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Or someone make a mod, like the one for player tags

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Jajajaja… “lo mejor desde el pan de molde”… Estimado SwoopGB, en este momento te estoy robando esa frase…¡¡MUY BUENA!!

Sobre tu exposición, te diré que si nos acercamos a la inmersión realista (no arcade) las cintas de TAXI no brillan más que por el material reflectivo que tienen y sólo cuando la luz incide sobre ellas en cierto ángulo (como las de las calles cuando vas en un auto con los faros encendidos por la noche). Sin embargo, y no soy piloto, soy uno de los que no tienen idea de para donde ir cuando sale del parking. Si bien juegos como X-Plane muestran una opción para activar el asistente de despegue (sintonizando radios automáticamente y mostrando una larguísima flecha amarilla hasta ponerte en cabecera de pista) no se condicen con la realidad.
La cruel verdad es que tenemos que aprender la fraseología del ATC si queremos usar un “SIMULADOR” y no un “ARCADE” (encima en inglés, un problema para los que no lo hablamos nativamente, y aquí me pregunto: QUÉ TAN DIFÍCIL SERÍA QUE LA SÍNTESIS DE VOZ SEA EN ESPAÑOL, teniendo en cuenta que solo es una cadena de texto… si bien sabemos que internacionalmente se maneja así, en vuelos domésticos se habla el idioma local… MicroSoft se anotaría un buen y gran punto haciendo esto!)
Esperemos que con el tiempo las cosas vayan mejorando y si no es por medio del canal oficial, veamos muchos plug-ins de terceros (especialmente freeware, de los que hay una enorme cantidad para X-Plane) que nos acerquen las cosas que el desarrollador original no tuvo en cuenta.
Saludos desde el Sur de Argentina!

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