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Naah us local know every bush in the area 🙂 Gotta sneak out to do some maneuvers with students. It's no uncommon even for solo student return from early morning cross-country and end up in the haze. We make sure they know whats up! MSFS come as great training aid for all local prominent landmark as vfr waypoints!

Not up in here🙂 We have has most of the time.

This is no documentation or any regs they did because one guy told them so. May be Tony was ATC controller before instrument approaches were invented, I don't know LOL But one thing for sure peer review never hurts. There are plenty ATC controller that can provide feedback. Vectoring is another thing. All "visual approach" intercept angle close at 90 degrees to final and 15+ miles out. Even when you fly a small airplane where you can square pattern half mile out. When BATC asks if me if I have runway inside 7-10 miles out they probably assume I wear binoculars! LOL Meanwhile VFR start at +3 stature miles, 1000 ft AGL. I can't understand their logic

I've been flying for 25+ and never have my instrument approach converted to visual arbitrarily by ATC just because weather is VFR! Apparently there is adviser guy who retired US ATC controller who convinced BATC developers that in USA all instrument approached become visual if weather is VFR. There is a big problem with that! While visual approach could be part of instruments approach like circle to land in most case it's usually requested by the pilot . There are no published missed approach procedure that applies to visual approach . Obstacle clearance also becomes pilot's discretion. Imagine busy KLAX airport where all jumbo jets assigned visual approaches on each parallel runway. It's pure nonsense. I just don't understand while BATC can ask another ATC controller in US and have at least some kind of peer review on what one guys said. Other than bizarre vectoring is this is major turn off for me in BATC 😞

They haven’t mentioned lvar for “pilots life 2” Before it glitched with neofly which basically can’t detect take off. Not sure it addressed . compare with inbuild list of changes those two updates log kind of pale 😞

I must say there no greater load on the pilot as shooting approach single pilot without automation at night at IMC. Hail to “freight dogs” who is doing night freight in old beat up airplanes

I don’t know “later this year” sound like very uncertain future. Active development perhaps would give more precise measurements . really would love to have this helo along with Milviz UH-1 (which seems been developed forever )

Its shame 2024 version put on back burner 😞

Important thing that IRL you are not interjecting ILS on your own you are guided my ATC which usually brings you to heading to intercept localizer until you get GS. At this point you should have already dialed ILS frequency, indent it - If you fly GPS you would switch to LOC mode. if you fly antique airplane with CDI needles only. Usually ATC vectors you to intercept below GS. Important step in ILS approach is check GS intercept altitude to make sure you are not following "ghost" signal. You would use DME or cross radial to identify important fixes along localizer. We also used to use timer on approach which would be last resort to identify missed approach if everything fails Nowdays all ILS approaches coupled with GPS RNAV overlay so you have redundant way to identify all fixes along the way. Due nature of some busy big airports you can be cleared to ILS way out, following "feeder" routes speed and altitude restrictions. You would still need to go for LOC at FAF to ride the beams.

Nice aircraft but missing native EFB. I guess I'm spoiled LOL

According to seminar that I attended years ago by SoCal ATC supervisor, ATC doesn't use ADS-B . ADS-B is purely for air to air traffic advisory just like predecessor TIS-B. In turn, FAA can monitor ADS-B to confront violation of regulation. I actually receive a call from FAA because some CFI, who. was flying my airplane, went too low over congested area. FAA got my tail number and were inquired who was flying on this date, that hour, in that area LOL Nowdays a lot of folks got smarter so they code ADS-B as "private". In this case you cannot tell the tail number and there remain "incognito" in some respect. Foreflight has ADS B feed I can see all the traffic sitting at home . Of course in subscription type of service that I pay. In USA ADS B "out" is mandated in most airspaces so everyone has it. But service is free https://globe.adsbexchange.com

Does anyone knows if say I want to fly GA and use Piper N2163 instead airline callsign. What do I fill up in simbrief?

Doesn't matter how we have touched the world of aviation as flying professionals, hobby flyers, passangers and etc. But as long as we manifest our passion to explore and an achieve ultimate freedom of flying what we want, how we want, and where we want , modern sims tech give as that opportunity todays more than ever ! Some of us remember, back in days, we had to use a lot of imagination flying vector graphics in virtual world! I'm grateful to live long enough to experience MSFS (even with all shortcoming LOL). I know most of us desire more changes for a better, and we tend push developers to expand boundaries and enhance our experience. But if I look back of my excitement to fly Sub Logic ATP, experience high now MSFS 2024 is huge leap! 🙂

I tried experimental but switched back to "early access". Experimental I can only talk to center : file FP, ask for IFR release, land. Very strange no other frequency other than hang over to next center is given. At least with early access I have right "chain of command " clearance/ground, tower/departure and etc

Working vs flying for fun are definitely two different things! Out of my 25+ flying career I rarely used autopilot considering not many airframes were actually equipped with them. All my ferry flights autopilot was either inoperable or not equipped . I must say I enjoy using autopilot in GA in MSFS because it gives me opportunity of sightseeing ! But IRL stick and rudder is the only time I ever logged LOL I have many airline friends who own and fly light GA. I asked them why ? The answer was it's different ! A freedom to fly where you want, how you want, and when you want - basically have pure fun in simplicity. Of course there are some airline pilot who own say Cirrus or Bonanza to commute from place of work home, and use GA for absolute practical reasons - just to save time driving in traffic. But one thing is always true many retired airline pilots end up in flying club and continue flying for fun. I have met tons of those folks as club check out instructor and they most fun to fly with. As many above I like to fly MSFS airplanes I flown IRL, but not only. Airliners is something I have never flown and never will IRL. So for me this forbidden fruit is very attractive pretending in MSFS flying Part 121 or 135 🙂 But I do share my sim time between complexity and simplicity both attracts me. I always have periods when I stick to airliners and when I stick with GA. Missing each category is kind of loss for me ! Why not to have fun in everything - airliners, GA, historic, military...?

Oh yes you are right ! I didn't check GTX integration on!

Strange! BATC doesn't tell me direction of pushback? In real life ramps/alleyways are uncontrolled and ATC has to way to tell you which way to back up. ATC will usually pick up when airplane taxi to active movement zone like taxiways. In my experience BATC only requires you to ask permission to push back and engine start or just engine start. I used both early access and experimental

ADS B as good as antenna that received it . A lot of airplane lately set up their ADS B to report "private" . I'm not sure what ADS B separation loss means. ADS B is purely information system air to air. ATC doesn't use it. ADS B is not certified like TCAS. VFR traffic separation is big question mark. Some folks fly in formation LOL

If you asking me yes turbulence is on. But frankly i don't get much unless I fly GA. I want MSFS to tweak turbulence for heavier mass flying body like airliner mid/heavy. What would manifest as weave for light GA should translate to the light chop of airliners. But I haven't experience any chops 😞

Sorry my bad. I read about VFR left entry! Was it experimental option for VFR or IFR? There are no downwind approach in IFR for runway 27 as far as I remember. All feeder routes take us inland via STARs . You either get modified straight in in coming from the East side. OR flying via north (heading from west ocean side( with u turn kind of entry to runway 27. I wonder where BATC polluted it from. There DP with left hand departure but hardly can call it downwind LOL KSAN use runway 27 at all time I can't remember ever landing from opposite site either as pilot of pax (I fly from there a lot). I imagine Santa Ana wind condition when things can change but they are few times a year only. There is also so called "bay tour" for VFR traffic! Im pretty sure BATC doesn't know about it. You talk to directly KSAN tower directly they let pass over midfield then drop to 500 AGL and fly around San Diego bay tour. In my days I loved with fly IFR I would touch wheel at Brown field and file again. If you do this way they always channel your flight plan via published victors airway via Mission Bay VOR. They will take you to V23 via San Diego Bay, KSAN - basically same Bay Tour but sweep is more to see San Diego. I used to use this technique to all my relative to get San Diego sightseeing flights LOL

I just finished word tour in 737-700 with live weather Oregon Hawaii, Polynesia, Australia, Indonesia, India, (hottest places of all of them) Turkey, Ukraine, Spain, Island Canada USA. I have not noticed any oscillation unless there are gusting wind in some cases some win shift with quartering wind from behind. I'm using HUD for any approach I disconnect auto throttle at 1000 AGL and autopilot at 500 AGL and land manually.

Runway 27 standard is right traffic, so is my home airport CRQ. I'm local and flew to KSAN always right traffic. I mean you fly in US right. Do your remember little green book? https://www.airnav.com/airport/KSAN I believe the reason for right traffic is due to North Island and Coast Guard station on left downwind

Do https://www.airnav.com/airport/koxr

BATC pretty much follow simbrief in my experience. In one case it changed my approach in the end, but it was due to good wind change which simbrief failed to capture. I must say flying BATC is so much better then without even with all shortomings.