I agree, I dont want live traffic, I just want to be able to fly around with some realistic looking flights offline at any time of the day.
Currently, at a busy airport like JFK with FSTL Traffic running 50 AI flights they jam the radio for (as of now) over 30 mins.
You have to sit there spamming the ATC button (1) to try and get your Request for clearance in between theirs.
Then if you are lucky enough to get that in you have to sit there spamming the Request Pushback ATC call on the lucky chance there is a break in ATC requests.
In FSX you didnt have to wait you could at least press the button and “lodge” your request in the queue.
But as FS2020 has not been built for airline simmers, its been built for GA nobody ever bothered to test ATC with more than 5 AI planes trying to leave an airport on IFR flights.
I am not hopeful for 2024 because I just dont think Seb and the guys get it, still, they talk a good game in fairness about the pilot career… but if they werent willing to fix any of these game breaking issues for 4 years I cannot see them getting it right for the next sim with all the other stuff they are doing. It will be some new liveries and some kind of basic career stats, essentially improving the logbook marginally.
In the time I have written this entire post I am still waiting for AI planes to get off the radio, so I can just REQUEST TO STOP PUSHBACK! I cant even stop pushing back until everyone else requests clearance, taxis to the runway.
Its bizarre how nobody at Asobo tried loading up a flight from a busy airport with lots of AI planes and… tried to fly somewhere!
