Hello,
does Asobo look into the AI ? So that are AI Takoff are possible ?
A.I. controlled take-off and landings are possible. 80% of the time, in my experience, they work without incident. Simply create a flight plan and once in the sim hand over control to the A.I. - it will fly the entire flight for you.
There are some caveats:
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A.I. take-offs often see the plane failing to gain sufficient height quickly enough (or actually losing some height immediately after take-off) to avoid skimming tree tops placed at the end of the runway. It’s irritating.
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A.I. approach and landing is often a game of Russian Roulette. The A.I. pilot will usually enter the Approach Pattern too late, and too quickly, and then have to wrestle the plane to a slow enough speed to make the landing. This is normally 10 miles out, but IMO the A.I. should begin it’s final approach orientations 20 miles out to avoid this nonsense.
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Taxi-ing to the apron after landing remains a ponderous, unnecessarily slow and protracted challenge for the A.I. - this needs to be fixed. Once the plane is landed it should be clearing the runway ASAP, not ambling about pointlessly.
There are a raft of other issues with A.I. flying - like the A.I.'s apparently inability to ‘see’ mountain ranges (so plan your A.I. flights with that in mind) - which one hopes will in time be fixed. For now, it works, but imperfectly.
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Not recommended. I’d usually switch on the AP after reaching initial climb altitude. This plus letting the co-pilot handle radio comms (at least after T/O) works way better and does basically the same.
Thank you for your feedback.
When i tested the AI Takeoff, sometimes it works and sometimes not.
Testing for example EDDF RWY 25 and 07 it works - not good but lift off. Test fpr example EDDF RWY 18 it works not. I think the RWY is shorter than the other. Also now test 36R at HEGN - also not work. All tested with the A320. What i have seen is that the BUS is accelerate to 180 knots and the stops and go back to around 160 and then do the takeoff. So i assume it deopends first on the runway length and second (maybe) the takeoffweight itself. Can you look to EDDF 18 and HEGN 36R for example that workes for you with the A320 ?
I wil use it only for takeoff to take a seat (sometimes) into the plane 
and look outside like a real start. Just an entertaioment factor, sure - but it would be nice when it works. The flight and landing itself i´ll do it always by myself.
I agree that general AI behavior is something that should get some love in the future.
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I fly the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan almost exclusively - and I mostly fly A.I. controlled flights (I don’t really do any actually piloting myself).
I generally avoid the large jets completely. I think you are correct that the choice of runways and runway lengths is very important (so I combine my choice of airplane with carefully selected airports likely to be able to accommodate it). Since I fly around smaller airports, often just grass strip airports, with the Cessna I don’t find that I run out of runway length too often - but sometimes it is a bit touch-and-go.
The main problem I encounter is the A.I.'s poor approach and landing skills.
Use the AI for taxi procedures in unknown airports - rather than the awful fake taxi ribbon.
For flight, use a validated flight plan, whether from the world view planning screen or entered in the cockpit and cleared by ATC as an Instrument flight plan, available in the ATC menu.
Regarding flight plans. I figured there might be a problem with 3rd party flight planning tools, for example SimBrief. I like SB very much but it seems to use outdated AIRAC data (unless you purchase these). MSFS, however, might use current data which might be the reason that 3rd party FPs sometimes lead into trouble.