Can't disable flight path assist (blue gates)

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See workaround: How to disable taxi ribbon and visual navigation aids in Career Mode

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To be clear, there are two distinct UI helpers in the game that are quite important in the career mode. One is the large blue rectangular gates (flight path) and also small POI (circle with white background above POI with a name). Flight Path shows exact path to follow to POI. As you fly around the same POI close to you base, you kind of know whey they are, but not exactly. It would be great the hide the Flight Path (blue rectangular paths) but keep the POIs marker visible. When you get to POI, usually the task is to keep the set attitude, speed and distance from the POI. I think it would be a nice challenge to do it without the Flight Path, but still have the POI marker in space centred reference. Right now, both options that you guys presented, and the link that explains it, enables/disables Flight Path and POIs as one, like it’s the one thing. There is not distinction between them. I completely understand this in quite niche issue, and it’s probably my problem that I just fly 2,3 mission around my base daily. So if you can easily fix it, that’s great, if not, not a problem at all. Thank you.

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• Go to Free flight —> find an airport then set as arrival → start.

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Same for me. Glide where visible at lfpo

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Try turning off the Taxi Ribbon!!

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  1. Before starting a mission in career mode, taxi ribbon and gates switched off in assistance menu.

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  2. After receiving taxi instructions, taxi ribbon appears and assistance shows taxi assistance is enabled again. Option is greyed out and unable to switch off.

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  1. During flight, gates appear again.

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  2. After landing an announcing taxi intentions, taxi ribbon does not reappear.

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Hello, not sure if you resolved or not. Try enabling FlightPath in Assistances then bind a key command to “Toggle Visual Assistance Display” in controls. Using the assigned key command should toggle it on and off. It works for me.

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Description of the issue:

I am going to assume the setting in FS 2020 settings are working.
In FS 2020 when you turn on Taxi ribbons ONLY taxi ribbons come on.
When you turn on Approach path then only THAT comes on in 2020.

In FS 2024 when you turn on Taxi Ribbons both that and Approach path come on. And when you turn on Approach path on and off NOTHING happens that I can tell.

I only have the PC version of the app. And I have used this in FS 2020 for years without issues.

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So I can confirm the above, both in career and in free flight. The blue gates can’t be turned off without turning the other assists off as well. I haven’t tried turning them off and then requesting taxi ifr from the atc and checking to see if only the taxi pointers come back on… bottom line, just another addition to the long list of bugs plaguing 2024, making at practically unplayable. I have gone back to 2020.

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Same here. Acts same way in free flight mode

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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• I have taxiway ribbon enabled, but not the flight path.

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In addition: If I turn off the taxiway ribbon, the flight path also disappears.

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On xbox press down on left stick to remove, should be a keybond on PC too

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With all kinds of respect but ‘unplayable’ is often in the eye of the beholder.
In my case, I sometimes experience unexpected/ unwanted things ( both IRL and sim wise)
So far, MS/Asobo and many others are , in my humble view, doing great things.
In case of unexpected things, the community is more then willing to find a solution.
Happy :small_airplane:

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Nothing has changed, even after the release of SU1, this annoying bug remains. The development team should probably seek external help to solve this very complicated problem.

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The workaround for keybinding the visual assistance display isn’t acceptable as ‘solved’ if that’s what they’re sticking with, since it removes the points of interest around you when you do that.

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: Selecting “Taxi Ribbon” under “Visual Assistance” will also display the “blue gateway” flight path visualisation in the air, despite “Flight Path” being its own option. Toggling them all on/off doesn’t make a difference, I can’t display just the taxi ribbon on the ground without the gateways in the air.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? No mods active

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Every flight, no matter if flight plan selected in World Map or once in the aircraft

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Yes, true, I voted.
You also need to vote.
Ridiculous bug but barely worth mentioning compared to the bigger topics they still need to fix.

It’s the same ballgame as why Aircraft Traffic (Real Time) also controls visibility of Boat Traffic. Very odd!

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Totally agree on the traffic thing, I really want to have boats on, but leave the stock air traffic off so that I can use FSLTL as it’s just miles better.
I do think the boat AI traffic thing is something cobbled together on top of the standard air traffic AI system, using the same internal routines, and as such someone messed up separating the two. IIRC it’s how GAIST did it’s maritime traffic, basically using the air traffic API, just spawning the “aircraft” at 0 altitude and independent from ATC.

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• i usd XBox x and can’t disable the blue boxes in the sky if I select the guide from the gate to the runway.