So which do you prefer, Autopilot or the AI Control? What do you see as the pros and cons.
I prefer Autopilot because I’m still more engaged with the operations of the flight, but I normally find the AI Control option to be more reliable and predictable.
The AI has been unstable, and unreliable for me. Too many bugs. I think it has been addressed and will be fixed.
Autopilot for sure because as you said at least you’re still doing something to fly the plane. AI Control is pretty much like riding as a passenger. Great for when you just want to enjoy the scenery or when you’ve done something bad to the aircraft and want the AI to fix your mistake. 
Have to confess I haven’t used the AI pilot. Despite many posts about autopilot functionality I have found it to be good across most aircraft. Even when it’s “buggy” I can see what it’s trying to do - eg in the Airbus in managed ALT mode it treats any A altitude (eg 2000A) as an absolute; so will find yourself low a bit too far out on some approaches. I can live with it.
The only thing I would like to use the AI for is taxiing to runways and gates. Then I could get some pretty neat drone camera experiences using my game pad. But the AI is so erratic that most times it just won’t make it there. One time the AI was taxiing too fast, then it hit the brakes so hard the aircraft did a face plant. Flight over. 
For the most part, the AI works ok for me but gets the collywobbles coming into land and sticks the plane into the dirt.
It’s always a sad end to a long flight.
For the AI co-pilot to fly the plane you need a flight plan and he doesn’t like grassy fields, and from the way he flies at times I think he’s hitting the sky bar before flights.
I’ve got the ai pilot assigned to a button on the joystick, and I basically use him/her to take the stick to taxi when I don’t feel up to it, although it can be hit or miss keeping it out of the grass at times, lol.
If I actually know where I’m going, I’ll use the actual autopilot mostly. If I’m just flying around aimlessly, and want to go get a drink or whatever, I hand over the controls.
That can be hit or miss though. Sometimes it tries to land, or change course. Hitting a mountain isn’t unknown when I’ve taken too long getting back. I’ve never needed a flight plan in most cases though. It’ll usually just keep flying whatever course we were headed when activated, although it sometimes doesn’t like my altitude, and will change it.
I’ve let it land and take off a few times. It often misses runways in my experience, or if it does hit the runway, immediately tries to turn off the runway into the grass. Seems to be a thing about tiny airports mainly.
Other than the above, it’s too dumb for me to feel like it’s anything but autopilot for when I’m too lazy to set the autopilot. Not cheating so much, but far enough from having an actual copilot that it doesn’t feel “authentic” to me to use it.
I’d rather hit autopilot and set heading and altitude hold before giving Co-pilot the controls I don’t trust him.
The AI-pilot is the most stupid thing in FS2020.
Sometimes they try to land beside the airport.
However that has to to with inaccurate glideslopes/patterns
The AI can’t confirm the taxi clearances from the towers sometimes and are somewhat unpredictable.
But I hope this will be fixed in a future update
AI Control has never worked for me. Even with the simplest of tasks like taxiing to the active runway. AI cant even do that correctly. AI control is useless for me. This needs to be fixed immediately.
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