It is standard ICAO phraseology, doesn’t matter whether you are an English speaker in an English speaking country or not. There might be others operating in the same airspace that don’t have English as first language. Weirdly everyone does say “niner”, so not very consistent. I have to admit I have never used “fower” and I’m pretty sure nobody would understand what I’m talking about if I would 
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I’m here in the SE USA. I’ve been trying all morning to get into the game but it crashes randomly while loading-- at 2%, 17%, 5% etc. I’m so frustrated. Help Asobo!!
Wasn’t serious about that, hoped the emoji made that clear .
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PC, store copy fs2024 v1.2.8. At International airports - so many gliders parked at the boarding gates. Often have to park the A320 on top of a glider : (
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Ditch in game traffic it’s tragic. Beyond atc now has ai traffic & atc combined. I recommend it even for entry level voices for a much better fs2024 sim experience if you are into flying airliners.
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Not quite accurate. It has the ability to control AI traffic but you do need an AI aircraft package installed, which BATC does not provide. You need to use either AIG, Just Flight Traffic or FSLTL for BATC to be able to inject traffic for you.
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Actually it does have AI traffic it just uses the models for the injected traffic from either FSLTL, Just Flight or AIG. You do not need, nor does it use, the injectors; just the base models.
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Maybe so, but nobody calls Fort Worth approach, “eff tee worth”.
Yes. One of the many things about ATC that annoys the hell out of me…
That and taking off from runway “tree fife arr” and “two seven ell”.
IIRC, 2020 got these right. How did they regress so many things like this???
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“VFR-on-top”, perhaps?
Look like VFR over the top, as long as you’re not up in class A airspace (in the US).
True but you only need one of them for the models, not the injector which BATC provides. Best add on I’ve bought in a while though.
Perhaps, but I’m descending into the airfield which would put me right in the clouds which would violate VFR rules. Plus, why does ATC have me IFR 99.9% of the time then just give up responsibility the last 0.1% of the way? I’m getting sick of it.
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Absolutely! I love it.
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You can always cancel, whether you’re legal is the question. But most of the time a tracon or center doesn’t really know if you’re in VMC or not. The only folks who really do are tower controllers.
If you cancel and go VFR over the top (as opposed to VFR on top, which is technically still IFR), you might find a hole to descend through, or go somewhere else where the clouds aren’t. There’s all sorts of scenarios. It’s a little different in faster aircraft because you don’t have the margins to go poking around for a hole and making a stabilized approach.
I’ve been monitoring the forums, and while MSFS2024 has a lot of room to grow, I’m all but convinced a major portion of the issues with basic “free flight mode” have to do with 1) streaming everything and server bandwidth capacity and 2) controller binding issues.
I was part of the Tech Alpha, and while I had notable controller binding issues that I could not fix, I did not have server issues at all, since the MS server load was much less during the Tech Alpha. MSFS 2024, when not server limited, was smooth, detailed, higher fps vs. MSFS 2020 on the same system, and had so much potential. Some places looked amazing. Other places needed help (e.g. palm trees in Washington DC, dense green trees in Dubai/Cairo, etc.)
But for the Tech Alpha weekend, with the exception of the controller binding issues, it worked and worked well. Looking at the forums and even YouTube videos, there are serious server limits. I watched YouTube videos of a popular YouTuber with an RTX 4090 using Ultra settings, and the PG looked melted and unrealistic at a distance - I’m getting better immersion in MSFS 2020 with a far lower system.
With that said, I do think MSFS is a stepping stone to the future. Eventually this will work well, if MS/Asobo devote resources and capacity to this. Lowering quality to reduce service bandwidth is not it. Increasing bandwidth is a necessity to get this where it needs to be. That plus all the other bugs. It may take another year or 2 to get it where it needs to be, but it will get there. It is the future.
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I’ve certainly had no server access issues since early December. Maybe it was passing the peak of users as they dropped off after initial demand. Been using it solidly since early December, and other than my own slow ADSL bandwidth the server access has not been an issue (UK).
Correct, once I had access, figuring out control bindings/profiles took me 2 weeks, how many users just gave up? I think had they had smoother access on launch and hadn’t defaulted to FS2024 bindings immediately with an option for a simpler controller interface they’d have had a much smoother launch. The other major one has been the numerous bugs, now that should have been either mitigated with a staged release of content or better still a public beta for 3 months or an EA release. As things stand we are the beta testers. Here’s hoping for timely fixes. I’m still enjoying FS2024 though, but a chunk of that is due to 3rd party add ons.
I was taught to fly by ex RAF instructors - have always used this (UK)