ATC and flight planning in career mode are broken; I would prefer an option for using or not using in-game ATC for career mode. Furthermore, ATC has not refreshed our built EFP plans. Usually, taking off with significant tailwinds.
I find myself canceling IFR immediately or ignoring it from the beginning and flying with my SI or BATC, doing so at a high cost of reputation (which doesn’t seem to matter outside bonus payment).
Asobo, please give us an option to disable the in-game ATC for career mode so we can use this amazing tool online with virtual ATC! I fly virtual charter operations and the idea of mimicking the FS world with my virtual charter ops is incredibly appealing.
Perhaps implementing this in conjunction with opening career mode to marketplace aircraft would be a good approach.
This is really why I haven’t been using career mode. I use SayIntentions. Now, I have noticed some interesting things like an airliner going missed approach when I use SayIntentions to cross a runway. In fact, I’ve seen that several times. The ATC in MSFS 2024 doesn’t know what I’m doing, but it seems to acknowledge that. It would be great if SayIntentions could handle the traffic injection – they’re working on it. Phase 1 is supposed to be out this month.
I voted on this one, we really need this to be optional in order to use BATC or VATSIM. I don’t care about getting dinged but it’s the jumping through hoops right after takeoff that I am not particularly fond of.
No improvement on the default ATC compared to 2024. Let me use Sayintensions.AI as default!
I wouldn’t mind default ATC if it wasn’t this bad. But since it is, I would rather have an option to turn it off so I don’t need to keep cancelling IFR.
Default ATC is bad.
But for the purposes of Career mode system can’t evaluate your perfomance with the radios if they would be from a 3rd party.
Opening API for 3rd parties to hook up with default system would be much more elegant way of achieving this.
Asobo have so many devs, and yet, few folks at BATC or SI working for few years on their projects was able to achieve SO MUCH MORE then default system with devs on full time payroll. That is strange to me.
I would love this as well. I enjoy learning ATC interactions via apps like SayIntentions and Pilot2ATC too much to lose it to career mode, though I’d love to just be able to use both. Can you please make this happen Asobo?
in career, when forced to use ATC I go through the motions until i get the IFR clearance then immediately cancel IFR and continue on my own.
I just bind the same PTT button in the sim and for SayIntensions or BATC. Turn off character voices and I’m on my way and cancel IFR asap to make sure I don’t switch to another freq. Keep the mission window open and everytime it says to reply, I push the PTT button shortly.
This needs to be addressed, even if you file VFR with the flight planner they ding you for not getting your IFR clearance. Forcing the frequency changes really kills the experience with the radios too.
Here to agree with everyone else. This kills so much realism and really takes away from what career mode could be given the awesome plugins like BATC available.
God please yes
please let us use our our atc programs in careermode, as the defult atc still needs alot of work, like other have said it might affect your aviators score, idea have a toggle on/off switch in settings which disables defult atc if you use your own 3rd party atc,
Since this has once again been mercilessly merged with another topic: My vote was for a general option to disable ATC without muting all voices in free flight as well, not just in career.
Edit to be clear: I doubt that, for instance, Beyond ATC can handle firefighting missions at this time. That’s why “using external ATC” and “using external ATC for career” are two entirely different kettle of flying fish.
