AI

AI = Artificial intelligence ➡

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI

Artificial intelligence
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Forgive me if I sound stupid but I don't see any connection with aircraft and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that deals with intelligent behavior, learning and adaptation in machines. Research in AI is concerned with producing machines to automate tasks requiring intelligent behavior

In simple words thats the reason you have traffic and other aircrafts around you 😉

The standard AI will fly from A to a point about 100 miles out and vanish.
AI programs,both free and payware will fly from A to B,and use real airlines and in some,real timetables

Basically you can say that AI is computer controlled

AI Aircraft is computer controlled aircraft

So when you are flying in FS, and the aircraft that are around you are controlled by the computer, they are AI aircraft

You dont control them, the computer does. You can hit them, they are solid, but you cannot control them

Odyssey wrote:

Forgive me if I sound stupid but I don't see any connection with aircraft and AI

No doubt you've watched movies such as 'Terminator'. Those bad guys were basically robots controlled by and being able to "think" by means of artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial because it's not natural - it's pre-programmed.

Instead of the bad robots in the Terminator, we have good aircraft in Flight Simulator. What the two have in common is that both have been pre-programmed and therefore are controlled by AI (artificial intelligence).

So AI Traffic in the sim behaves the way it was programmed by the author without you having to do anything. Unless of course you decide to take control yourself and start to assign flightplans and choose the type of aircraft and airlines you would like to see in your virtual aviation environment.