Yep, I have… all is up to date. BTW, if you think of any other ideas, please just DM me here since these forums aren’t supposed to be used for troubleshooting a 3rd party app. And thanks again.
Maybe try disk cleanup in cmd there could be some corrupted files prohibiting the initiation of the app
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Not sure if this is related, and I apologise I know this is not support but I had a same issue with another 3rd party product I installed clicked on the icon and would not load..So I installed iobit unistaller it unistalled everything, then I reinstalled the product I bought for MSFS then it worked. It deleted registry files which may stop it to load..this is only advice.
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I find the different experiences here interesting.
Some seem to say it needs admin privileges, others say not.
Who is right, I haven’t got a clue but I do know that I wouldn’t feel very comfortable giving the addon Admin privileges if that were the case.
I didn’t require admin permission
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Check task manager to see if the BeyondATC process has actually started.
Check the task bar and/or alt-tab through all running applications to make sure you aren’t just waiting on a background UAC prompt from the installer.
Check Event Viewer to see if the installer is crashing on launch and if there are any hints in the event logs.
Run procmon and watch file, registry, and network events to see if there are any hints there. Pay special attention to any access denied errors.
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If you stick with the default installation of your root C drive, you’ll need admin rights as @SteveKane said up the thread. I have mine on FS drive, H in this case, in it’s own folder.
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Problem solved!
For whatever reason, the installer.exe file needed to be unblocked in Properties. I have never seen this before, but sure enough, that did the trick.
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2nd test flight done, yep only 2nd. When the sun comes out, so does the other half, with jobs. 
This one went smooth as silk, EIDW back to EGCC, Dublin was busy so I tried to fit in with the AI as best I could. No issues taxiing, departing or cruise. Then descent, I got a little twitchy flying over Oldham (9 miles away) at 9,000ft but the controller vectored me around, then bang on for 23R. Of course AI traffic was landing in the opposite direction and I went through a Ryanair (sorry Mike). Taxi was fine, BATC just told me to taxi off the fast taxiway at Manchester and select my gate. BATC gave me an option of gate 25 or any, gate 25 is actually an Aer Lingus gate in real life I believe, which is really cool.
The hardest thing for me at the minute is actually having to map out my route on the ground. 20 years almost and this is the first time I need ground charts.
A bugbear of mine so far (yes yes, very early days), the fact the program is a separate window, an in-sim UI would be awesome. Another unrelated to BATC but the in-sim ATC, auto-tuning itself to whatever BATC is tuned to, I’ve been getting around by muting ATC voices in sim options, but it comes back when I reload into the sim on the next flight.
All in all, really cool tech. I actually think adding traffic will be even more chaotic at this point, it’s stressful enough without… can’t wait though. 
Wrong. I installed BATC to my root drive without admin rights and the program runs just fine without giving it administrative on my system.
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For you maybe, the default behaviour is as I said. Are you on a true admin account?
same exact thing i did and like you, i am not having any problems
I still havent seen anything from anyone if this even works without needing Simbrief. Does it work from the MSFS Plan? I rarely use Simbrief. I think I did twice. I just prefer to open the sim, make a plan and go.
I’m really keen on BATC - if anything, just for regional accents alone. I’m a bit nervous about VR, although as PF auto replies are better for me.
One thing with the voices - does anyone else think the voices consistently sound like they’re taking a big breath and projecting their voices hard? My experience is that ATC (and pilots) tend to be almost the complete opposite…
Had a problem in that I couldn’t use the Basic voices. There is an exe file, SpeechEngineBasics.exe, which should be in the BeyondATC/BeyondATC_Data\StreamingAssets\ folder but my AV (Bitdefender) wouldn’t let it through from the installer. I eventually resolved it by restoring from the Bitdefender Quarantine facility.
There may also be a similar problem from other AVs as this exe file was recognised as malware.
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Does it work with GA airplanes (in IFR)?
If you can make a simbrief plan with your plane , it works. I have flown c172 and dh-2 today in ifr.
You have to use Simbrief. BATC will not function unless it is supplied with a Simbrief flight plan.
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Do you have to include a sid/star in the simbrief plan or does batc assign them? Does batc use them every time?
I didn’t think light GA IFR necessarily uses them IRL and many are restricted to high performance aircraft.
Just did my first flight and was seriously underwhelmed. The voices were great, but all the rest not so much. It didn’t give me any climb instructions while on the SID. Would be stuck @ 6000ft if I didn’t just start climbing. When I asked about it in 10 different ways it just said “didn’t understand last request”. I got the same reply for basically anything at least slightly out of standard, like asking when I can expect descend clearance, which STAR I can expect, what’s the weather at the arrival airport etc. When on approach it repeated “expect RWY XYZ, via ABC, QNH …” several times every minute or so, although it did register my reply. It even repeated what the EXPECT after it gave me the clearance for the approach.
I hope this will get better. Right now it’s an annoyance.
I’m also sure that if I’ve flown on VATSIM I would get at least a few direct-to’s. Nothing like that with BATC. It just followed the Simbrief FP from A to B.
To be fair I did the flight in my home country - Poland, which is maybe not very high on the popularity scale. Will try tomorrow somewhere more popular, like the UK. Maybe it will be better.
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