5 hours ago, simsuper80 said:

Interesting. To me, the actual traffic is a HUGE part of having an ATC addon. You can have the best voices in the history of technology, but if the traffic acts really weird and unrealistic, it's a deal breaker for me.

Of course traffic is a part of any atc addon, however I am too busy organising and preparing my own flight to wonder how an ai flight looks when it takes off or lands.

4 hours ago, tttocs said:

Funny, though, how we all rate things differently.

Bingo.

28 minutes ago, verbal said:

Of course traffic is a part of any atc addon, however I am too busy organising and preparing my own flight to wonder how an ai flight looks when it takes off or lands.

Bingo.

Well I'll give an example. Maybe I'm holding short for takeoff, waiting for an airliner to land.

I don't wanna see these aircraft slamming it down harder than an F-18 carrier landing.

9 minutes ago, simsuper80 said:

Well I'll give an example. Maybe I'm holding short for takeoff, waiting for an airliner to land.

I don't wanna see these aircraft slamming it down harder than an F-18 carrier landing.

Mate you've got plenty of opinions here, more than enough that are supporting SI. Give it a go for a month and see what you think. If you don't like it then thats fine, use something else. If you do, great enjoy it.

You can keep asking peoples opinions and they might keep giving them - Or you could just spend a month exploring it for yourself.

1 hour ago, KL Oo said:

Mate you've got plenty of opinions here, more than enough that are supporting SI. Give it a go for a month and see what you think. If you don't like it then thats fine, use something else. If you do, great enjoy it.

You can keep asking peoples opinions and they might keep giving them - Or you could just spend a month exploring it for yourself.

Oh don't worry. I'll give it a go later in the week

13 hours ago, simsuper80 said:

Well I'll give an example. Maybe I'm holding short for takeoff, waiting for an airliner to land.

I don't wanna see these aircraft slamming it down harder than an F-18 carrier landing.

I hear ya... But it's just not something I pay much attention to. I've got plenty to do in the aircraft while holding short. Other than that landing aircraft just being there so that I have other traffic to deal with and account for, I don't really pay them that much attention. I want to have other traffic - I just don't pay them much attention other than as, well, other planes I need to account for.

To each their own.

Scott

I tried the SI trial about a year ago. Wasn't bad. Been using BATC ever since with premium credits.

I went all in and subscribed to SI this weekend. I thought why not. Clearly a lot has been done and it's almost overwhelming. Will explore further but I'm impressed. Not sure I'll use all the features but it's very well put together now.

On 10/10/2026 at 5:27 AM, vbazillio said:

Not sure to understand the question. SI is injected Ai traffic on the airports. So, it knows the flow of the airport. If you're asking the opposite runway of the one currently in use by the flow of the airport, there's a high chance of deny by ATC.

im going to give it another go this afternoon as theyve updated it quite a bit

Tried it for the 1st time last weekend. It was nice. I will probably try a 1-month subscription so I can get a better feel and get everything set up. The 24 trials were not enough time.

No issues; I was just rushed getting it set up, configuring things while flying, and a 2.5-hour flight. Overall it's feature-packed much more than BATC.

If I like it enough, I will do a year subscription.

Edited Sunday at 08:11 PM1 day by 01pewterz28

1 hour ago, 01pewterz28 said:

Tried it for the 1st time last weekend. It was nice. I will probably try a 1-month subscription so I can get a better feel and get everything set up. The 24 trials were not enough time.

No issues; I was just rushed getting it set up, configuring things while flying, and a 2.5-hour flight. Overall it's feature-packed much more than BATC.

If I like it enough, I will do a year subscription.

I'll probably try it later in the week. But have you tried it at busy airports? And if so, how was the approach?

Edited Sunday at 09:53 PM1 day by simsuper80

I don't think it loads anything until after you land

4 minutes ago, turnandbank said:

I don't think it loads anything until after you land

What? It loads the moment you start up the SI app. I see AI traffic right away.

4 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

What? It loads the moment you start up the SI app. I see AI traffic right away.

Oops! Wrong thread. Was looking at the Apron Life thread just before this one and my mind was still on it when I saw the question lol.

On 10/11/2026 at 1:14 AM, simsuper80 said:

Well I'll give an example. Maybe I'm holding short for takeoff, waiting for an airliner to land.

I don't wanna see these aircraft slamming it down harder than an F-18 carrier landing.

I don‘t have SI and mind the disclaimer in my signature, but I saw exactly that (AI traffic crashing into the runway on landing) a couple of days ago in a A330Driver‘s video (who uses SI). Don‘t remember which video it was, but it was about three weeks old.

Compared with BATC (which I use) I find the AI traffic I see in his videos much worse compared to BATC in regards to animations and quantity, as others have already pointed out. I think in AI traffic SI lags behind quite a bit. Although I see some progress in the videos (it was much worse half a year ago).o

40 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

I think in AI traffic SI lags behind quite a bit. Although I see some progress in the videos (it was much worse half a year ago).o

So in BATC, you get VFR GA traffic flying RW traffic patterns? 😉

Scott

I was an early SI user but left about a year-and-a-half ago, waiting for it to mature a bit more. Been using both FSHud and lately BATC instead.

A month or so ago I tried SI again and the improvements were massive! The AI was at that time way ahead of where BATC was (though BATC has moved on a lot in the last few weeks), but the thing that struck me aside from the natural language responses etc was the insane quality of SayIntentions’ AI voices. I could swear I was hearing or talking to real people half of the time.

I didn’t resubscribe yet - I couldn’t justify the cost - and BATC continues to work almost flawlessly for me on every flight, and the updates are coming fairly often these days, but SI is definitely very impressive.