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To be fair, didn't pay much attention what makes me seeing ships in MSFS2024, just thought those were from GAIST. I can only report that I see some when approaching airports on shore but good to know that these could be from in-sim too!

Version 7 from flightsim.to works for me in MSFS2024: https://flightsim.to/addon/81663/global-ai-ship-traffic-v6

Looking forward to their panel state saving feature even more. Haven't bought the Fenix Busses yet, still waiting for that feature to be implemented as it's mandatory for my type of airliner OPS simulation. When they've eventually released it, I'll just get the whole A320 family despite only having a real need for the A320-200 variant, just because PMDG sales youtuber A330 Driver once said in some comment, that he thinks Fenix is doing wrong from a revenue perspective by giving free updates. I think the Fenix guys are doing it just right and this creates a way higher revenue long term.

wrong font for runway and taxiway signs is the most annoying one as it's relatively easy to do it right, just pick the right font: https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/finally-icao-font-for-taxiway-signs.20253/ little or no ground equipment makes an airport feel dead no ability to disable static aircraft or having them "on" by default and navigating to some obscure folder to rename static.bgl to static.bak default ground equipment wrong runway markings wonky runway centerlines repetitive textures (buildings, RWYs, TWYs, apron) missing runway slope if there's one at the real airport blurry signs wrong font for ground decals default jetways wrong approach and RWY lighting (missing rabbits, wrong type of lgt type, missing touchdown zone lights)

Is this the case on your side? Toolbar Pushback performs automated, pre-planned pushbacks without any issues in ms FS24.

Fair hint, was going to point out to IVAO too. I've been an IVAO member for my first online flying years but switched to VATSIM about 10 years ago. What keeps me on VATSIM and not wanting to go back to IVAO is the fact that it feels like too many people are online on IVAO not to have contact to other humans, but rather just collect hours and badges and sht. You don't get such things on VATSIM. On IVAO, I've seen people being online constantly and trying to get as many awards and badges as they possibly can. Have seen pilots with 1000s of hours but were unable to fly a simple heading, maintain an altitude and ruining everyone elses experience. Among ATCs, "world tour" pilots were feared and infamous because the majority of them were lacking those very basic skills. When in the process of finding a new world tour by the WT department of IVAO, everyone hoped that no airport in your FIR got selected. Even had ATC colleagues logging off prior a bunch of WT pilots entering your sector. Some find that entertaining but it's just not my type of online flying and not my type of experience I want to get, therefore, VATSIM fits perfectly to my needs.

Planning flights with a maximum of possible ATC coverage is fairly easy in europe as almost all FIRs use the VATSIM booking system. You can find booked ATC sessions here: https://vatsim-radar.com/events or here: https://vatsim-radar.com/bookings or here: https://statsim.net/atc/?tables=true&tables=true Unfortunately, UK ATC doesn't use the official booking system but their own calendar over here: https://cts.vatsim.uk/bookings/calendar.php The lack of ATC bookings outside of Europe (I only see a few US east coast airports and rarely TNCM, VHHH, South Korea and Japan) on the booked ATC sessions) is the only reason why I don't fly long range and/or short range in other parts of the world outside of Europe. It just misses the point of flying online on VATSIM when there's a high risk of ending up alone on 122.8 upon arrival. Would love to take A350s, and 757s around the world but I have absolutely 0 intention to buy an addon aircraft too big for smaller european airports as there's just no motivation to plan a LR flight, take the 10-12hr journey just to be completely alone at destination.

Tried LOW on a windy day into EKVG Vagar with a 30G45 crosswind and the 737 went down the glide like on rails.

"Free" in terms of "no additional cost to the original sim": many of the handcrafted World Update airports are good freeware quality. Just install them and keep the ones you like.

Most likely not before 2027.

Meanwhile, I've noticed this bug at a few more airports too (29 Palms EDDB, MSFS WU EDJA and EDVK). Couldn't find a bug report in the MSFS forums yet so I decided to open a new topic. Vote here to get attention to this bug: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/blurry-taxiway-and-runway-signs/757029

I've noticed in Central Europe, snow is much more realistic. In MSFS2020, you've had basically a 100km blob which only knew "1m snow coverage" or "no snow" resulting in snow covered valleys and in the next part, you've had no snow at all even on 3000m high peaks. In MSFS2024, it's a much finer grid and also somehow shows mountain tops covered in snow, while valleys are blank. Haven't proved it with evidence, but snow coverage feels pretty accurate.

Also comes in super handy when you're in another room, doing the laundry, cleaning your car or are afk for any other reason. Vatsim-Radar works perfectly fine on mobile too and helps to get back in time when you're about to cross someone's route at the same level or when you're about to enter controlled airspace.

Check out the link via vatsim-radar.com or over here to participate and give feedback for the development of this already great tool: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdVUZZ9YNb61KSVivruv6nZWjFALN1D0qVySdED3SokuG-5A/viewform I've suggested the following features to Daniluk: Push notification when ATC comes online at an airport of a defined set of airports. Like, I've got 50 payware airports and I'd love to get a notification in Firefox whenever an ATC responsible for one of those airports comes online. Like for LOWW: whenever LOWW_APP, LOVV_CTR, LOVV_N_CTR comes online but not LOVV_B_CTR as it's not covering LOWW. Simpler version: to user define every ATC station individually, like when I have to type in all the individual stations I want to get a notification of. I'd consider trying to gather all VATSIM booking platforms at the same place. The current vatsim-radar booking only shows the ones that are on statsim too. Would be a huge benefit to not have to look like at cts.vatsim.uk/bookings/calendar.php, statsim, and some individual FIRs or ARTCCs separately. A centralised ATC booking platform is what VATSIM is missing and VATSIM radar could help in that regard I think. I really love this guy's work. A proper map was the only thing VATSIM was behind IVAO for years but vatsim radar is such a great tool I couldn't live without anymore.

Most runways show the wrong approach lighting type and the glass at Terminal 3 (?) looks really bad/blue at night but otherwise a 10/10 airport. Top notch ground work, Terminal modelling, runway and apron textures. Taxiway pavement is not just a blunt texture area but perfectly aligned with edges and lines.