Anyway to disable (or have the option to disable) the ATC in Career mode for you can use things like BATC and SayIntentions? seems like its scripted into the misions, and its kinda annoying.
Totally agree. Coming from vatsim, default ATC seems pretty unusable. It totally wrecks IFR missions. It seems like it really hasn’t evolved at all from the FSX days. If they can’t do better they need an option to disable it completely.
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Please create option to disable ATC in career mode so we can use our own ATC like BeyondATC, especially for IFR flights.
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Was hoping to use VATSIM but keep getting forced into the in-game ATC, which is horrible for IFR flight plans.
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I second that, Microsoft has been partnering with 3rd party devs for so many things, it’s time to partner with BATC and SayIntentions for ATC and have that integrated with career mode. Perhaps Microsoft can open up an API to control the internal ATC state and third party ATC providers could call that API to sync their state with msfs.
But until that happens, please provide an option to disable in game ATC in career mode.
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Having the option to disable ATC as well as being able to adjust the flight plan would improve career drastically. Totally agree.
I wouldn’t mind having a good and usable default ATC in the sim that worked but that’s not the case right now.
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This X1000 everyone upvote this to infinity
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I would love this.
It’s sad that we can map the whole world down to a few cm but can’t get decent default atc.
My first flight sim was Flight Unlimited II from like 1998 and that had way more immersive and complete atc than anything that’s come since. If you did a mayday call they would give you directions to the nearest airport, if you went off the taxiway it would quip something like “you trimming the grass down there” it would call you on guard if you flew into bravo airspace without contacting first. I’m sure it even did traffic sequencing
Granted they only had to do this for California as that’s as far as the sim went but still, it was 1998
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It is 100% doable, all the 3rd party career add ons let you use atc of your choosing, should be the case here. It will require modification to scoring system, but better now at the beginning, than two years down the road
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It would be nice to have an option to disable the in-game ATC. I use a third-party ATC program (beyond ATC and Say Intentions) so simply changing the radio freq doesn’t work. It’s annoying to hear the in-game ATC give me directions and the third-party program give me directions. Either a complete ATC disable option or at the least a separate audio slider to mute the in-game ATC.
Isn’t there a voices slider in the sound settings? There is in 2020. Slide it to zero.
There is a slider for voice, but by putting it to zero, you lose all voices. Co Pilot, cabin crew, etc. I would like to just disable the ATC, not everything else.
You might try starting a flight in Free Flight anywhere at the airport before filing a plan. Just set a departure but not an arrival. Then once at the airport use the EFB to create a plan and send it to avionics. But don’t file it to ATC. Or use your third party plan. See if that works. But yeah I see your point that would be a good option.
That’s an idea I didn’t think of. Send the flight plan to avionics but not ATC. I currently create the flight plan in simbrief (required for the third party programs) and import it into the sim so it’ll show on the avionics. Didn’t think to not send to ATC. I’ll give that a try. Thanks for the idea.
Make sure copilot controlling ATC is off in assistance options or it’ll still try to give you vfr commands. I find making a flight plan in web interface at planner.flightsimulator.com a lot easier and the opening the plan in the EFB. Then send to avionics. To be honest it’s hard to deal with this sim its got so many bugs, hard to complete a flight that doesn’t go wrong somewhere. Good luck.
Came to also say that I would love to use BATC with career mode as well.
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I came to disagree with disabling ATC, but I understand what you mean now.
I also would prefer a more realistic ATC environment. I only hope they are partnering to create on, AI based I’d assume.
Don’t like the simplified system they have now, but I only came to say make it better.
Not sure how they could score your “procedures” with ATC if it was disabled but I definately agree with the sentiment here.
if the system was open to mods and 3rd party for changes… that would be ideal.
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I agree! @devores, is that the same as this item: Disable ATC in Career Mode or Option to Disable
If so, can you merge it?
This is what a Say Intentions developer responded when I asked if they would be willing too hook up into an API provided by MSFS to update the internal MSFS ATC state:
“We would make this Priority #1 if it ever happened! We’re the only ATC network poised to take advantage of that situation, since we support VFR and untowered ops.
And we’ll definitely take advantage of that.”