It's been a long while since I last tried it.

Main things that turned me off were:

Landings were awful, harder than a carrier landing. Takeoffs were unnatural.

And the traffic was very misaligned with the airport at just about every place.

It is super great! Will definitely renew my subscription

15 minutes ago, rob0203 said:

It is super great! Will definitely renew my subscription

Really!?

How's the traffic behaving? Landings? Takeoffs? How do they taxi around? And what about vectoring and spacing during landing at a busy airport?

Wouldn’t fly without it. Genuinely.

2 hours ago, simsuper80 said:

Landings were awful, harder than a carrier landing. Takeoffs were unnatural.

Well, now I'm confused. What does SI have to do with takeoffs and landings?

That said, AI traffic seems fine to me, especially at airports where folks have contributed good profiles via Taxi Tuner. In fact, I originally started using SI due to them being one of the only programs who do GA traffic.

I'm 100% GA, so maybe not what you're looking for, but with recent updates things like vectoring and descents have been excellent. You might want to check out this recent topic. https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/701159-say-intentions-ai-from-a-ga-perspective-warning-long/

Scott

Edit: I'm now guessing you were referring to the AI landings and takeoffs, yes? Honestly, I still think their traffic injection is as good as anybody's, but none are perfect, so...

But the ATC has gotten really good of late.

S

Edited Thursday at 09:37 PM2 days by tttocs

45 minutes ago, tttocs said:

Well, now I'm confused. What does SI have to do with takeoffs and landings?

That said, AI traffic seems fine to me, especially at airports where folks have contributed good profiles via Taxi Tuner. In fact, I originally started using SI due to them being one of the only programs who do GA traffic.

I'm 100% GA, so maybe not what you're looking for, but with recent updates things like vectoring and descents have been excellent. You might want to check out this recent topic. https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/701159-say-intentions-ai-from-a-ga-perspective-warning-long/

Scott

Edit: I'm now guessing you were referring to the AI landings and takeoffs, yes? Honestly, I still think their traffic injection is as good as anybody's, but none are perfect, so...

But the ATC has gotten really good of late.

S

Ya, the ai traffic landings and takeoffs.

I love it. Its come leaps and bounds over the past 12 months but overall, its an incredable product. I was watching at YSSY today as AI aircraft that required it were performing intersection departures on 34L whilst whilst others were using full length. Since the improvement to voices a month or two ago, they're far and away the best out there.

AI operations are smooth and well controlled. Any airport that has a decent taxi tune is good. I'd like to see more arrivals as I generally notice far more departures than arrivals, but thats my only real complaint.

Wouldn't fly without it and haven't opened BATC in months.

10 hours ago, simsuper80 said:

Landings were awful, harder than a carrier landing. Takeoffs were unnatural.

And the traffic was very misaligned with the airport at just about every place.

When was that bad experience? Months ago landing was indeed unrealistic (very fast deceleration). Fix and improvement came in July, as far as I remember. About misalignment, can you share at least one airport ICAO where this happened ? The hypothesis raised by other members on the Taxi Tuner profile worth to be check ;)

PS: just a SI user. Not a bot ;) And no affiliation with Say Intentions.

I just paid for a years subscription, having previously paid monthly. Since then I have flown 2 mid to long hauls whilst using SI without any issue whatsoever.

The ability to talk directly to ground crew via GSX is what tipped me over, plus the AI voices sound so much better and less robotic than BATC and FSHud, in my opinion of course.

I don't really pay much attention to AI landings and take-offs, that was most definitely not my reason for re-subscribing.

Does it still have the issue that you can’t change the runway for landing from the one generated in simbrief?

32 minutes ago, fluffyflops said:

Does it still have the issue that you can’t change the runway for landing from the one generated in simbrief?

Isn't it related to these two user settings?

Edited Friday at 10:06 AM1 day by vbazillio

ATC aspect is just great. CDPLC, vectoring, ability to select approaches, flexibility for runway selection via Settings. Plenty of options.

AI behavior - still far behind BATC and FSHud.

16 hours ago, simsuper80 said:

How's the traffic behaving? Landings? Takeoffs? How do they taxi around? And what about vectoring and spacing during landing at a busy airport?

I know that you are using PSXT, so you will be disappointed. I use SI in a combination with PSXT and so far it's the most efficient (and the most expensive) method to combine best ATC with best AI traffic. It's not a perfect solution, but it's my 26th year of awaiting proper ATC and AI :-) Hence, I have plenty of patience now.

59 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

AI behavior - still far behind BATC and FSHud.

You guys are determined to confuse. When I first read this I thought "whattya mean SI's AI is behind BATC and FSHud?".

Oh, maybe you mean AI TRAFFIC? Considering the overall AI nature of SI, it would really help to be a bit more specific. Just a thought.

Scott

3 hours ago, tttocs said:

You guys are determined to confuse. When I first read this I thought "whattya mean SI's AI is behind BATC and FSHud?".

Oh, maybe you mean AI TRAFFIC? Considering the overall AI nature of SI, it would really help to be a bit more specific. Just a thought.

Scott

Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I meant that it’s injected AI traffic where SI far behind of both BATC and FsHud. For the record - I own all three.