Hi devs and simmers!
First of all, thank you for this plugin. I mostly fly online on IVAO, where an opportunity to experience full traffic and ATC is still rare, so it's definitely a very wanted addition!
Here are some of my thoughts (and excuse me if I inadvertently repeat some of the earlier posts, I read most of this thread but not all of it):
1. I noticed a lot of folks complaining about X-life and Skymaxxx pro compatibility, and I can confirm I got a very frequent CTD with the first few flights, but after disabling the real weather option in X-plane, the problem stopped. It's also OK when I use an external weather engine - UltraWx from EFASS. Skymaxxx pro is woring, weather is realistic and X-life can read it correctly. I think the best solution is to give up the real weather option in X-plane and just go for an external METAR source like UltraWx or Real Weather Connector (that came out today)
2. It's cool that X-life ATC will provide you with a SID and a correct initial climb altitude, but it still needs work in approach phase. I tested it from LOWI to LOWS (high mountains all around), and I noticed that the AI aircraft were not using the correct approach to rwy08 (that leads through mountain valley), but instead the descended way too low and flew right in the mountains. At approach to LOWS I got a correct STAR from ATC, but also I got a clearance to descent to final altitude of 4000 ft way to early - if I followed this instruction, and the STAR, I would crash into the mountains for sure. So there is still some work to do when it comes to correct altitudes and AI following STARS, I think.
3. I think this was mentioned before, but indeed you receive ILS clearance to the runway that has no ILS.
4. I don't know how the AI aircraft is chosen, but I mostly seem to get a lot of C172 (it's not that strange actually), 727, embraer 170 and fokker-50, and nothing beyond that. Ocasionally a 767, but it's very rare. I never saw any airbus or boeing 737at major european airports, which makes it a bit unrealistic. I have opensceneryX installed, but was wondering if there is maybe a way to add more AI aircraft or tweak the settings?
5. When I flew from EPWA to LOWW, I never got any request to switch center frequency when leaving Warsaw or Prague CTR. I don't know if that's a bug, or if switching center frequencies is not implemented.
I think that's all for now, of course there are a lot of things that can be added (like requesting different flight levels, or DIR TO waypoints), but all in it's time I hope. Keep up the good work!
Pacior