London Radar (north) is still staffed by Spaniards (basic voices)!
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I wonder if FSLTL being freeware made the live data supplier less bothered about a financial contribution from the devs, than they would be for a payware offering?
Donât forget squirrels!
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If it ainât study level, I ainât interested!
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Hi, this new taxi map is amazing! If I could wish something then it would be that the taxi instructions (taxi to ⊠taxi via⊠etc) would be visible below the map. Ok, maybe they donât read this forum but anyway, that would be good to have!
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Someone already said the same thing on discord⊠
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New news:
Hey all, quick annoucement that PayPal services are now added to BeyondATC! If you have not been able to purchase the program up to this point because you didnât have a credit card or werenât able to use our existing methods, you can now use PayPal to complete all purchases of products within the app!
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BATC has been working very well for me. Taxi, climb and decent are all good. And the new taxi map is a great addition. The only minor problem Iâm having is a delay in speech generation. Most of the time, itâs not the end of the world but when vectoring for approach, the delay can put me off course. And itâs certainly not all the time. Only half of my flights have delays that affect my position.
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If you are using VR, HAGS is causing delay in speech generation. Just turn it off until BATC will fix this.
Sorry for my ignorance, but what is HAGS?
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Just done another flight using BATC (GA type flight but using low-level IFR) from Manchester (EGCC) to Heathrow (EGLL) - not realistic I know!
In Beechcraft Bonanza G36 + Improvement Project.
The taxi chart at Heathrow worked wonderfully - much clearer and simpler to follow than Navigraph (for which I have a subscription).
So congrats from me to the developers for getting this working.
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I agree, itâs fantastic. I also have Simbrief, it would take me 30 mins to taxi in off the runway while I figured out where I was going lol. 
I know, lazy flying, but it works well.
Just waiting for the AI traffic to drop now, and weâre on the road to greatness.
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I attempted my first true long haul with BATC last weekend - 9+ hours, EGLL to KBNA in the PMDG 777-300ER. IR, this flight is flown using 772âs but close enough. Anyway. BATC worked great from dispatch, pushback/taxi, takeoff, flying the SID and then the oceanic crossing all the way to Canada.
However, somewhere along the way, BATC seemed to lose track of the flight. I never got the handoffs to subsequent Centers, and realized about 50 miles before TOD that I coudnât manaually contact the correct Center to ID and request descent. I was able to quit and restart, selected âCruiseâ as the phase of flight, and continued on. BATC handled descent along my planned STAR but then the trouble began. It changed my runway from what Simbrief had given me in my OFP what and the real-world ATIS had said were active, which had me hustling to reprogram the FMC. The suggested runway (2C rather than 2R) is at least in the same direction, but shorter, which ate into my stopping margin. Worse, it gave me the visual approach, and tried to vector me in WAY too close to the runway, on about 7 mile final. This is really unrealistic for a heavy jet finishing a 9 hour flight.
I know itâs been suggested before, but this program desperately needs an option to request your own runway and approach, or at least request a longer downwind for a heavy aircraft. Maybe via parsing the ICAO code for the aircraft, BATC could âknowâ the aircraft type and stop trying to vector big planes into short final approaches. Ideally, I would have the options to reject the visual and request the ILS instead, or request vectors to a long final. Something of that nature.
As it was, I once again just quit BATC, continued flying my own downwind descent and turn-in toward the 12 mile fix I needed to get down and slow down enough to capture the ILS from underneath.
The programme developers are well aware of the current shortcomings and are actively making efforts to alleviate them using reports forwarded to them by users. Incidentally, IFR flights in the USA are often vectored to a visual final, just as you were, with the same âtoo closeâ result. It is expected that once traffic is in place this probably wouldnât happen so much, but thatâs for the future.
Incidentally, trans-oceanic flights arenât yet supported, so you wonât get a hand-off. The workaround is either keep an eye on the frequencies list and select a suitable one when it âcomes into rangeâ or just close (press ESC) BATC and restart, selecting cruise as your current mode of flight.
All this is on their excellent, but often very busy, Discord channel, which is well worth joining. Go to the BATC website and get an invitation.
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And yet, I most certainly did, all the way from leaving Irish airspace to after arrival in Canada.
With the latest update amongst other things it should be possible to request a runway change for landing. And it also finally supports step climbs when the controller instructs to climb to the initial cruise altitude and not the final cruise altitude like before. Itâs going in the right direction 
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Pre sales Q here. Can I route all BATC audio through headset and leave MSFS audio coming through desktop speakers? In much the same way that I use Teamspeak really.
Cheers all !
Yes. Although you set the output audio for BATC in the Windows settings, not directly in the BATC app itself.
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Whoah, requesting runway changes? Thatâs huge! Gonna try this shortly.