Nickey

not for another half year i suppose for now, i think thats all the way down the roadmap when we have a very stable relase and all major sims integrated

we have a feature tho that is called classroom. there your rehearse understanding atc. do you think a few modules/lessons there scoped for vfr would help already or do you actually mean live interactive atc within the sim.

well just for transparency the plan is to focus on ifr heavily at first. because when its more scripted its more reliable. but i've seen okayish resulst qwith the chatgpt-oss 20B model on my macbook. so i think we could see more free vfr atc on a budget but i think its way sown the roadmap for now.

yes, you'd just enter the ip of that device where your llm is running to lift the heavy working. or you could run the whole server including the llm but like completely everything on a different device. i think it might take up til mid 2026 until we see the plugins working locally and then a few more months for all the documentation to be that easy and well documented that it can feel intuitively. i totally see your point so thats fully on the roadmap.

problem is i still need support for development of the live atc feature since its a lot of learning by doing 😄

yes thats what im fearing too, but acutally it went surprisingly well with first tests. maybe bringing your own openai api key might be an option for some people ..

thanks, since its my private discord for now i'd like to hand it out via email to everyone 😄 i think we already wrote for everyone else could you send a quick word to [email protected], reeeeaalllyy appreciate everyone thank you!!

both. it runs okayish with a 3B modell and very good with chatgpt-oss. dont know yet if simmers want to sacrafise their local gpu while playing tho 😄 we will see ...

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