Hey all,
not sure what the correct sub-forum is, but I’ve been working a JS autopilot that just runs “on your computer” outside of the game, with flight visualization and control in your browser, and figured some folks here might find that useful to know about, or even run through the tutorial for learning purposes.
The tutorial’s up on Flying planes with JavaScript | are-we-flying and while initially the idea was to just see if I could write a simple autopilot it kinda spiraled out of control so it covers not just your standard alt/heading but also has terrain follow, auto takeoff, auto landing, and waypoint navigation based on just putting markers on a google/leaflet map in the browser.
And of course if you just want to see it in action, you should be able to grab the source from GitHub - Pomax/are-we-flying: Writing auto-pilots in JavaScript for MSFS and then run it locally.
And remember: it’s still just an autopilot, it’ll absolutely kill you if you tell it to fly through a canyon and ask it to coordinate some tight turns =D
Also, I did some video recordings while testing autoland, so folks might find those fun too:
Initial daytime test: Let's have JavaScript fly a plane in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 - YouTube
A night time test (the AP doesn’t care of course =D): A night time flight test, with storms around. Supposedly - YouTube
A full flight in beautiful New Zealand’s Wānaka lake region: Full auto flying from Dingleburn Station to Wānaka - YouTube