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Oh, I would've thought Monday, but yeah that's fine

Definitely into the Stratoliner. Very happy to hear they've rebuilt the 707, but with everything that comes in the sim by default, I remain hopeful, but not optimistic.

ChatGPT is too much of a generalist model. You'd want to find something that's specifically trained to spit out 3D models based on prompts - similar to how the dedicated video AI models will always do better with video than something like ChatGPT or Grok.

There's definitely a systems bug here but also a bunch of operator error so I would take it with a grain (perhaps half a cup) of salt.

Wrong model. A bit over a year ago, I tried to get Grok and ChatGPT to generate airline schedules and they did terribly. Claude Cowork - no issues. Does it cleanly without duplication and will build you a widget. I've used it to build a similar form and smart pricing tool at work and it has done admirably (though the codebase is a mess and I've had to rewrite a lot of it to introduce a "price book" instead of a bunch of arcane rules that need updating every time)

TAS? Or IAS? How fast are you expecting it to go? It's not a Q400, you should be seeing TAS around 240 at altitude.

Ryan, stop giving me PTSD.

The Citation X has an auto-tune function - unless you put a frequency in the box, it's going to auto-tune whatever it thinks is appropriate to (I think) do position updating. Not a bug - operator error.

Passenger announcements - scripts for branding? How is the voice synthesis handled? Would be neat if we could have a company defined, custom announcement flow, etc., but obviously those are reach goals to me. Maybe a couple options for when to trigger certain announcements, save them to an airline profile. Could also potentially provide custom scripts for the announcements. I was a flight attendant, I've always been thinking about how to get just the right crew mod lol This sounds very interesting - I'll pick up a license in a few weeks when I can get back to simming. Congrats on the release!

Not really basing this on anything but it might be mostly a Sierra Division project, publishing under FlyTampa with some sort of sharing of the labor. SD looks like a pretty competent modeler.

Sure makes me suspicious when they say the project "reimagined" the idea of a console, and will play both XBox and PC games. I basically have that today, it's called Steam Remote Play lol

I will laugh so hard I may never recover if this is launched and revealed to basically be a thin client for streamed content

FSS seems to have a real issue with WASM crashes across products - I haven't really been able to complete a flight in the 727 either, consistently WASM will crash sometimes before takeoff. Shame to hear it's happening so much with the EJets too, have been steadily reporting these as I encounter them but they don't seem to have or be pursuing a fix...

Certainly not ready for deployment today - but a great step in the right direction! Anything that gets these products off the (very expensive) commercial compute roller coaster will be good for customers and enable more features. The biggest issue with SI right now, imo, is that it's got a lot of partially baked features that are interesting, but use a ton of compute. At least this would be a step in the right direction.

I wonder if either SI or BATC will look at going with Qwen3-TTS - open source, voice design as easy as Eleven Labs, so much less expensive than premium price AI compute. Could really change the math on both services, the voice quality is excellent. https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS