*HUGE* BeyondATC Update: VFR Is Finally Here! - Major ATC Upgrade | MSFS 2020 & 2024

Hello friends, followers, and channel members. Welcome back to the channel. So, Beyond ATC has finally released stage one of its long-awaited VFR update, and this is quite a significant moment for the platform. This isn't just a tiny extra feature. In fact, no, this is the first proper step into full VFR operations inside Beyond ATC, and it opens the door to something that a lot of simmers have wanted from the platform for a long time, being able to finally fly visually, talk to air traffic control properly, and mix in with IFR traffic rather than just flying the usual IFR gate-to-gate flow every time. Now, before I get carried away, it's important to be clear about what this is and what this is not. So, this is stage one, and it is on the experimental branch for supporters tiered users. This is very much a foundational release rather than the finished VFR product. So, Beyond ATC themselves are being pretty open about that. It's expected to stay in experimental for a while, likely a few months, whilst they work through the next development stages before it eventually moves into the early access branch as a free update. So, what do you actually get right now? Well, the big headline is that you can now fly as a VFR aircraft at towered airports with proper air traffic control interaction for things like taxi, departure, circuit or pattern work, arrival landing, and then either taxiing back out again or going to parking. And that matters because this is not just a you can depart VFR and then nothing really happens. They've clearly built a proper circuit pattern training logic into this as well. So, you can do full touch-and-goes, full stop landings, low approaches, and in supported regions, even stop-and-go operations. I also find it very interesting as well that they have split the regions, which I'll talk about a little bit. So, what you can do in the US and the UK, Australia are all slightly different. That alone though should be enough to get a lot of general aviation and training-focused flight simmers interested because it means that Beyond Air Traffic Control is no longer only about IFR airline-style operations. It's now starting to cover a lot of general aviation flying, which is what a lot of real pilots do for fun, myself included. So, I thought I'd give this a try doing circuits at Leeds Bradford Airport. So, I called up the tower. Golf Echo Juliet Sierra Papa is a Cessna 152 parked at the ramp with information November, and we're requesting departure to remain in the pattern for circuits.