BeyondATC

EliasK60 · September 12, 2024, 10:30am

Major update 1.2.42.EA is now available:

–Traffic Alpha–

Traffic is disabled in the EA version of the program as we work to get it to a stable place where will push it to EA as a FREE update. If you would like to try out traffic while it’s in the ALPHA state please upgrade to the Supporter’s Pack version of BATC and switch to Experimental.

–VR Toolbar!–

Toolbar available to be installed in MSFS community folder. (Download from discord)
Provides access to ATC message log, frequencies and BATC action options.

–Airports–

Active runway assignment considers runway length for all aircraft compared to a type specific takeoff and landing distance.
Active runway assignment (outside of existing low wind ops) will now included runways that have a slight crosswind even if there is a runway that has perfect headwind. This is important at airports with many non-parallel runways
GA classified aircraft will try and using the shorter runways that are active to avoid landing on runways for airline use.
Arrival parking is based on the full traffic data set and will allocate the player a gate that best matches their aircraft from Simbrief, considering the tail number, callsign and operator/type (in that order) of the flight. If multiple options exist from these selection criteria randomize the value returned for variation from flight to flight.
Improvements to runway turnoff logic for direction and timing.
Where airport scenery has very long taxi segments split them up for better handling and traffic separation.
Updates and additions to our airport ops list.
Fixed some low wind ops values that could lead to arriving and departing in opposite directions.
Fixed runway assignment direction issue if all runways were either low_crosswind or crosswind status.

–Aircraft–

Aircraft type meta data has been expanded for more aircraft and to include data such as the average takeoff and landing distances.
Vectors now use per aircraft type values to configure as base and final leg value to help managed vectors being too short for some aircraft, biz jets for example.

–ATC Comms–

Further fixes for not being handed off to Tower.
Fix for no assigned parking at destination airport when you weren’t handed off to Tower but contacted them yourselves
Speed to detect comms change or xpndr update made in aircraft has improved.

–Voice Recognition–

Massive fixes across the board to all recognition failure points, significant improvement to handling of numbers, niner and all manor of phraseology.

–Voice–

Significant increase in the variation of phraseology.
Non-English voices generation response time nearly doubled or tripled for a significant number of existing and new voices.
Many new premium voices.

–Vectors–

–Misc–