BeyondATC

DrVenkman3876 · November 18, 2024, 9:58pm

BATC is (mostly) good to go!

@everyone Greetings everyone! With the arrival of Flight Sim 2024 just around the corner, we thought we would give a quick update as to compatibility with the new sim, the state of traffic and announce our new trailer.

BeyondATC MSFS 2024 Compatibility

Beyond ATC is fully compatible with MSFS 2024 in both the EA and Experimental versions.
All ATC functions work as expected and for Supporters using the experimental build traffic control is fully functional.

Being compatible means that it will work as it does in 2020, we have not yet been able to take advantage of any new features like Microsoft provided traffic models or test aircraft specific to the new simulator as they were not included in the development builds of the simulator, that will only be possible after the full MSFS 2024 release tomorrow.

For traffic users, it should be noted that both FSLTL and AIG (and we expect Just Flight to be the same) have indicated that there may be model issues in the new simulator at launch, this could be sound issues, animation issues or missing components (like missing gear on the ground). These issues WILL affect the models when used with BATC too but they are not BATC issues and will require fixes either from Asobo or the respective modelling teams once they have been able to review the 2024 release. It’s important to remember that Microsoft focused on only providing devs that sell products on the marketplace with access to the early builds of 2024. Freeware devs like FSLTL and AIG have not had the chance to fully review their products until the same time as the general user community.

Traffic Update

We are quickly nearing “feature complete” on our custom traffic injector. This has been the result of thousands of hours of work from different disciplines across the board. We built our injector from the ground up using a 3D engine to calculate every movement of our planes, from how they bank and pitch to taxi/airport/runway logic, traffic data sourcing and sequencing logic. We don’t use any of MSFS’ native injection code, but decided to take on the herculean task of rolling our own. This meant a lot more work for us up front, but was a huge benefit that we weren’t bound by any of the nonsensical and often silly constraints imposed by MSFS’ injector that continues to be present in FS2024 (like “doing donuts” or disappearing randomly, to name a few). As we continue to squash bugs and polish the flow to a spit shine we can look back and say this effort was well worth the investment. We expect to be moving traffic out of alpha into beta soonish, at which point we will push all traffic functionality to the standard EA build for all to use as a free update. We still won’t give an exact date, but we’re getting much closer with each passing day.

New Trailer

With the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 our old trailer is now extremely outdated. To show off the latest and greatest BATC has to offer we made a new, updated trailer that keeps with the original’s light-hearted teasing of the state of the industry while putting all the new features front and center. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/aIHfDxwbtqA
We’ll see you all in Flight Sim 2024!

Do note the caveats re models, model/livery matching, animations, etc. But BATC itself seems ready for FS2024.