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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

VPNs are sometimes to blame for this - a couple times a day I'll encounter a link or something that just doesn't work or throws Forbidden and it works fine once I log out of the VPN. Probably Cloudflare etc. IP blacklisting the VPN server

Here's the problem - if enough of you will this into existence, and it will come true. What have they done since release? - Steady improvements to the aircraft - Sounds like the -300/400 are coming along nicely - They bent to all of the ridiculously loud whining about not understanding the pricing model - EFB enhancements, new flight model for the winglets 737-5, sound rework coming So, frankly, what are you expecting? If you just don't like them, you can say that, but saying they aren't "bother[ing] to improve their game" just isn't a fair assessment of the developer. I can't even say that about devs I would argue are more malicious actors in the space!

Granted the Imaginesim came out around the same time my last PC exploded, but I've tried flying in there a few times and get absolutely horrendous performance, I'm not expecting much better with ini but with Imaginesim we know we're not getting supported updates and if there's a memory leak it could go unaddressed for years. Will probably pick this one up, switching to 2024 finally anyways.

There were so many things kicking around in the Load Manager that had been implemented back in FS9 and P3D days that I'm sure there was a lot of fat to trim. Would imagine stuff like the W&B got moved into the sim, getting rid of that duplication, etc.

This looks even better than I was hoping for.

They're not gonna go back and fix it lol. They're checked out, site has been in maintenance mode with minimal content and paid product promotions all year.

That's rather disappointing, the 2020 version was a lot of fun. I spent a few months bouncing around in FSCharter around the Pacific Islands.

Honestly if you whack in the 16K panel mod on FS.to and buy the immersive audio pack, it feels like a whole new airplane. For about 6 months it was the only thing I was flying in the sim. Eagerly awaiting the update too, but you don't have to let it languish 🙂 Also if anyone is considering this plane but worried about price - it's phenomenal, the best version of a plane that has been a labor of love for 20 years. It is almost never on sale, so 25% off honestly sounds great.

Unfortunately this is becoming all too common in marketing. Big scoop a few weeks ago about an (otherwise no-name) American political commentator doing this with Substack, they're maintaining "two lists" so when you unsub from the first you get added to the second. It's illegal. Homeboy has "1 million" subscribers who never opted in.

The biggest red flag to me is indeed the Aviation Lads trailer.

SayIntentions received a birthday cake for their 1 year anniversary from BeyondATC. The problem was, BeyondATC never sent a cake. That's the whole story.

I disagree. Aerosoft gave all the classic warning signs it'd suck - - Derived from their P3D offering which didn't really work well - Funded by govt with a sunset on the funding so they rushed to push it out - Lost staff members left and right during this process

Hypothetically love the type, didn't like the execution of the avionics, didn't like the sounds. Just overall, like the CRJ from AS, underwhelming.

I’ve let my sub lapse multiple times - it must be due to data deletion request. My guess is it probably has something to do with APIs and their voice synth engine (probably eleven labs, based on age of the product) it’s probably an issue with a downstream vendor