The Flight Assistant still seems to have issues with identifying mountains.
This is easily reproducible when taking off from the nearest airport near the Fuji Mountain in Japan and then having the Flight Assistant navigate to Fuji.
It will not adjust altitude, even when I manually set the cruising altitude in the menu.
I’ve also noticed it when attempting to land at airports that are surrounded by valleys.
I set the FA to do an approach and landing at Schipol whilst I relaxed and looked around in VR. It was all going fine until the FA decided to land on the grass parallel to the runway. Clearly needs some work, not sure if this was an issue before the SU5 or not.
+1 on this (new account, no votes). I set a flight from KYKM (Yakima) to KSEA yesterday, VFR navigation, fully AI-controlled, and it crashed into mountains multiple times due to starting a very early descent. Finally was able to find a cruise altitude high enough to let it barely clear the hills, but even still the automated landing was nowhere near a runway. Was in the Daher 930.
Flight Assist, just like A.I. Co-Pilot before it, is a busted flush. It kinda-sorta-maybe ‘works’ some of the time, but almost always fails its landings in one screwy way or another.
I’ve given up hope Asobo will ever figure out how to take the flight information they already have in the sim and instruct the A.I. to use it properly. I can’t see it happening. They’ve been trumpeting Flight Assist as some fantastic improvement over A.I. Co-Pilot, but to me, it seems just as drunk and suicidal as ‘Charlie’ ever was. Just a few more options in the menu, but no tangible improvement.
When I can reliably expect to complete a totally ‘hands-off’ A.I. controlled flight - start to finish (including all takeoff and landing procedures) - then, and only then, will A.I. Assist be fit for purpose.
Started a new flight, KSEA->KJFK using High-Alt IFR in the Airbus320. After maybe 10 minutes in the air it’s still at only 6000 ft, climbing barely 900ft/min. Passengers getting nice views of the hills (probably freaking out a little) but totally unrealistic.
That being said, I’m really just testing stability of the sim and my O/C gaming rig running hours-long flights, so happy as long as it doesn’t crash (sim-wise or airplane-wise)
Me too,
I’m assuming Microsoft or Asobo has no interest in reading, nor acknowledging these bug reports.
It’s now 2023, and still not motivated into working on the AI of “assist”. How hard is it to have AI simply follow actual, existing approach charts?