ATC and AI traffic suite BeyondATC has partnered with Navigraph to bring FlightRadar24 live traffic to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
Similar to what has been implemented in FSLTL a few days ago, BeyondATC launched an option to inject live real-world traffic in the simulators, as opposed to fixed schedules.
For now, the option is limited to the experimental build of BeyondATC, which will let you log into your Navigraph account, as long as you have a Navigraph Unlimited subscription.
Once that is done, the application will inject AI aircraft in the simulator’s sky, reproducing as well as possible what is happening in the real world at any given time, based on data from FlightRadar24, which happens to be much superior compared to the FlightAware data utilized in the simulators by default.
Of course, you have convenient sliders to determine whether you want reduced or full traffic, which can easily handle over 200 aircraft in the air and on the ground around you.
BeyondATC works with models and liveries from a variety of free and payware providers, including FSLTL, ATG Airline Traffic Global, FS Traffic, and AIG. You can even combine them in any order to achieve nearly full coverage of active real-world airlines.
Here’s what you can expect, straight from the official FAQ.
- A full, real airport — your departure airport is seeded with parked aircraft from the schedule so the ramp looks busy, and Live Traffic then takes over those airframes (or adds new ones) to match what’s really happening on the ground.
- Real positions as a starting point — airborne aircraft are placed where the real flights actually are when they come into range. From there BeyondATC takes control and flies them, so they may drift from the exact real-world track — though in practice usually not by much.
- Real departures — a parked aircraft only departs when its real-world counterpart actually starts moving on the ground. If a real flight is already taxiing when you load in, BeyondATC drops it onto the taxiway where it really is.
- Arrivals and enroute traffic — aircraft inbound to your airports, and traffic passing through the area around you, are brought in based on the live feed, nearest to you first.
- Coverage around you — BeyondATC manages live traffic in a bubble around your aircraft (out to roughly 200 nm), and that bubble grows as you climb, so you still get traffic at cruise.
- Your density sliders still apply — the Parked, Departures, Arrivals and Enroute sliders work exactly as they do for standard traffic, so you stay in control of how busy things get.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is currently available for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5. If you’d like to hear more about the simulator, you can watch our latest interview with Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is available for PC and Xbox Series X|S. That being said, BeyondATC only works on PC.
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