Having used ATC in another sim, then switching back to FS2024, what immediately jumped out at me is-
- There are long drawn out delays between clikcing a selection in the ATC menuand speech happening. Really laggy.
- There are still so many options missing from ATC
- F2024 ATC UI is still broken after 8 months and 3 SU’s. The most recent message which you sometimes I want to reread the contents of is hidden at the bottom of the ATC window, and when I try to scroll down to see it after about 0.5 sec it auto scrolls back to being hiden again. Does noone test this stuff out?
- It’s night and day bad between this and what is currently available as default in another sim.
It’s really so sad that they have such a hard time making usable user interfaces. As far as I can tell, 2024 is a huge regression, and they must not have done any usability studies, at least not with people who know how to use flight simulators.
I’m imagining they stuck to the Xbox UI guidelines to a tee, and pretty much expect everyone to be using Xbox controllers to navigate the UI on 15" screens. It’s really weird they ignored the fact that I imagine most Xbox users are using 4K 55" TV’s minimum.
While clunky, the ATC window used to at least be relatively usable.
And how did they miss the fact that while helicopters use helicopter pads and airports, but that planes can only use airports? Zero realization connection that while they were so proud they included as many helipads as they could find, that given the limited utility of helipads, they needed to craft a usable interface that ignored them for most users, those who fly planes.
As well as the flaws outlined above, there exist a couple more most will no doubt be aware of:
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once open, you cannot navigate the on-screen EFB with anything but the mouse, despite having opened it from the menu bar with, for example, a controller)
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the active destination marker doesn’t display when selected
Does anyone know if this has been accepted as an issue, I’m not sure where to check?
I suppose it’s not a bug per se as the ATC Window is working (presumably) per the design specification.
The fact that the design spec has created something that’s highly frustrating means a Change Request would be one route, do we have that option?
Stumbled on this topic…finally
This GUI is a pain. Often more time lost to get in connect and scroll these field. And then sudden the airport is displayed as if it magically appeared. So annoying to select your airfield…big downside especially in VR where ATC window is prominent in your view. Why not make it an request so we can vote
I’d say parts of it constitute bugs, because when using (for example) an Xbox controller, you often cannot get the cursor to connect with the scroll bar right-hand side of the window. Similarly, when you hover over certain options, the cursor will refuse to recognise and highlight these options. Furthermore, this frequently happens when hovering over knobs and switches in the cockpit, and you have to alter your view slightly to coax the cursor into highlighting the function.
No issues with the mouse but many of us prefer to use controllers to select and manage views, instruments, UI windows, etc.
It’s a bit of a mess, and certainly a regression.
Voted…thanks for the effort of searching and recapping this annoying feature
Maybe a longer list or add the airports on alphabetic order. It strange you can not just add the icao code?
Hi!
Just made fix that should help you guys. Hope it will work for everyone!
Look at Flightsim.to for FS24 ATC Window Replies Resize Fix
It’s just sickening that a multi-million dollar corporation can’t fix a problem that a member of the community can do?
Great Job @Kagiebee Thank you.
I’m not even modder, it was 1st one i made ever :b Just noticed there is no solution for this issue, so i made one.
