Closing this topic as the AI Pilot / AI Control has been addressed by the developers:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/why-hasnt-ai-control-aircraft-aka-ai-pilot-been-fixed-yet/323260/13?u=hester40mt
Use this topic for AI Pilot posting and continue up votes:
AI Control Aircraft is broken, no longer works as expect (flightsimulator.com)