This was a fantastic watch 🤣. It's great how an AI can teach but still make it fun. I'd love to see more flights like this, I'm having lots of fun watching from afar being an Xbox Pilot.

I love the joint learning experience of this video-warts and all. Glad you were able to change the radio to accept three digits to the right of the decimal. Experienced pilots may correct me on this, but in the US, ATC frequencies are in 25 kHz increments: .000, .025, .050. .075. You don’t have enter the last digit (0 or 5). It’s assumed. ATC has more than one way to radar identify you. When you depart an airport IFR, you normally have your transponder code set and transmitting before starting take off. If you check in with Departure within 1 mile of the runway and your flight data is displayed on the radar screen, that is one form of radar identification. If you check in beyond 1 mile, the controller will have you ident or reset transponder code and ident. That will cause an “ID” to flash on their screen next to your flight data. That is another form of radar identification. Finally, if neither of those work, the controller will give you heading of 30° or greater from your current course. They may give a second heading of 30° or more to verify the blip they are watching moves in the assigned direction. If all is good you are radar identified by this method. Thereafter, they will issue a heading to get you on your flight plan’s course. If they give you a heading to a VOR then own navigation, you can proceed direct the VOR as soon as you dial it in. Once over the VOR you follow your flight plan route. You are no longer on radar vectors. Keep the great videos coming. You are truly a simming treasure.

I really enjoyed this...enjoyed the stress and the mess-ups as well. It makes me less intimidated to try this myself.

Thanks, very much enjoyed this.

I enjoyed every minute of that. I never use ATC , but I could change my mind after your videos. I flew my last Vampire (RAF) on August 29th 1951 when ATC used very different language from nowadays! I still have problems with the "new" alphabet. Is 95 too old to cope I wonder.

It's all fun and games until you try to land and hear: " Sorry Dave I can't let you do that"

If you haven't done so yet, link your navigraph account in the pilot's portal. That will address some of the comms inconsistencies. BTW, you don't need flaps in the TBM on a long runway like that.

MMMM Very Posh IFR Good Job Thank You

Well, anything must be better than the built in ATC - flew today and it had me take off on Runway 27, but on return landing on Runway 06. Was a bit surprised but went with it, only to meet an AI jetliner coming at me head on just after touchdown. Runway excursion by me, followed by nosedive and crashout. GRRRR. Hope Say Intensions works properly.

Uhhh... Did you do your departure? Looks like you took off and went on course instead of z0000003 or whatever it was. Also, is there a realism setting you can set to get ATC to be a bit more realistic- so if you don't do your readbacks, they request it again?

had a very bad experience on vatsim yesterday so now thinking of say intentions and paying for it but I can`t even get started --- keeps saying e mail and password invalid ????? can`t win !!

try ask atc to sing a song 😂😂