I Revisited SayIntentions in 2026...And Brought BACKUP!

[00:00:00]Last night I was streaming from Zurich to Bristol on Vatsim when my internet connection decided it had other ideas.

[00:00:06]So today we're flying the exact same route from Zurich to Bristol. But this time we're going to use Say Intentions AI air traffic control from gate to gate to see how it's shaping up in 2026. And because Wing Control have sent over their Airbus radio management panel, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to put that through its paces as well.

[00:00:24]So we have three objectives for today.

[00:00:25]Number one, finally complete the Zurich to Bristol flight for the virtual airline. Number two, check in with Say intentions in 2026. And number three, see if the Wing Control R&P can keep up with all of those radio frequency changes along the way. We need to thank the team at Sayentions for giving us access to their system to make this video. And of course, thanks to Wind Control for sending out their RMP.

[00:00:47]Anyway, let's jump in and get our Airbus started and get ourselves back to Bristol.

[00:00:52]Good. We are here in our beloved Fenix A320. So, let's get her fired up. Up to the top panel we go. Battery one on.

[00:01:01]Battery 2 on. We're going to take the external power and we're going to put our Navan logo lights to the on position to let people know that the plane has power into it. We're going to arm the emergency lights. We're going to put the no smoking lights to on. We'll leave the seat belts to off because we're going to refuel in a minute. We'll turn on the crew supply and we'll turn on the ground recorder and we'll give it a little test while we're here. Good. Uh, let's get the navs on. One, two, three. That'll do us for the minute into the EFB. Let's tap to import. And there we go. Zurich back to Bristol. We've got 20 minutes until our scheduled offblocks time.

[00:01:38]Hopefully everything will go fine there.

[00:01:40]Let's go to the mass and balance page.

[00:01:43]Now, if we go to the load the aircraft and then we can use GSX boarding and refueling and we can get going. We've got 180 passengers on board today. So, a full house uh 2 1/2 tons of cargo and 6.7 tons of fuel. All right, Q&H here in Zurich is 1018 and we need to get in contact with ATC to get our clearance over to Bristol.

[00:02:05]So, let's see what intentions has got in store for us. And of course that means using our fancy pants new RMP panel from Wing Control. So first thing we're going to do is turn it on. We've got a little kind of lift and uh move switch, which is really cool. So that's coming on now.

[00:02:20]If it's not quite as bright as you want, you can brighten up the radio panel um using this dial here. And you see how that kind of interacts directly with the hardware itself. That is really, really cool indeed. Uh I'm going to leave it about there. That looks pretty good.

[00:02:33]Hopefully you all can see it as well. If I leave the sim looking at the RMP here, um you can also then see hopefully what happens as I use the physical device over here. So according to say intentions, um luckily they provide a piece of software here, their little app and it tells us that we are not tuned to where we need to be tuned. So we need to tune to 121 decimal 93, hence it's in red. So let's do that now. 121 decimal 93 0. Now if we press the little green arrow, that should switch us over. Yes, it does. And we're in business. Direct delivery not 207 x-ray stand bravo 39 of information hotel on board aircraft type air bus A320 with IFR to Bristol.

[00:03:16]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray cleared to Bristol via the Vebbit 4 whiskey departure runway 28.

[00:03:26]Initial climb 5,000.

[00:03:29]Departure on 125 decimal niner 55.

[00:03:33]Squawk 2644.

[00:03:37]>> Mid to Bristol on the Vevet for whiskey.

[00:03:39]Departure runway 28. Initial climb 5,000. Contact departure 125 decimal 95 and squawk 2644. Air 207 X-ray.

[00:03:49]>> X-ray November. Oscar 207 X-ray. Read back correct. Contact ground on 121 decimal niner 05. Contact ground 121 decimal 90 Z5 and not 207 X-ray. Pretty good so far, eh? That was all right. Uh, let's get our squawk in then. Two, a six, a four, a four. That's good. That's in. Let's put us to auto. Now, it wants us over to ground now because we've got our clearance. So, there's really not an awful lot more they can do with it. So, we want to go 1 2 1 uh 9 0 5 and we are in. There we go. So far, the R&P is feeling really good. You kind of got the dial here that works all and it's divided into two sections. You've got a lower ring which does kind of the uh number before the decimal place. Then you've got an upper ring which does the part of the frequency after the decimal place. But it feels really really nice indeed. And crucially crucially it means that if you're say you know busy and you're doing this, you're doing that and you get an ATC instruction to change frequency, you don't have to move your view and look all the way down here while trying to hand fly or busy trying to do other stuff. you can just do it while looking at the actual hardware itself and move on. Very nice indeed.

[00:04:59]All right, plane is loaded. There's that ding and you can see actually Zurich's looking quite nice and busy with what you would expect to see in terms of airlines. You're seeing some local carriers around the place which is really nice. This is all part of say intentions living world I believe. Um, so how it works is you kind of get real world traffic schedules and you even like down to day of the week you'll see a certain plane flying a certain schedule and of course it links into FSLTL so you can get all the liveries and it's all controlled by AI. It's really cool. It's not just um like a delayed version of real world. This is AI controlling real world inspired traffic. It's very cool. APU is fired.

[00:05:34]So let's get that beacon light on which should spring GSX into life and get us ready for a push. Swiss 8 Yankee Echo request push start.

[00:05:42]Hello, Captain.

[00:05:48]>> All right, good. GSX is now ready to give us push back, which means we need to get in touch with ground and actually ask to be pushed back. Ground, very good afternoon. Air not 207 x-ray stand bravo 39 ready for push and start.

[00:06:00]>> Xray Oscar 20 xray Zurich airport and start approved. Face west.

[00:06:06]>> Push and start approved. Face west 207 x-ray. Okay, that's then is going to be a nose to the right, tail to the left.

[00:06:14]Let's go >> releaseing push all >> 337 taxi to parking.

[00:06:25]>> Hotel one, hotel Juliet, hold short of runway 28 wise 337.

[00:06:31]>> Thank you.

[00:06:35]>> Swiss one Lima echo request push and start.

[00:06:39]Swiss one Lima Echo push and start approved.

[00:06:41]>> Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard our >> start.

[00:06:45]Pay attention to illuminated signs and >> one Echo X-ray push and start approved.

[00:06:53]>> Okay, so now would be a good time to get tower in the standby frequency cuz they're going to be next. 18 decimal one. Let's go up for that cuz we're already at like 900. So that would be a bit quicker. There we go. 118 decimal 1 0 0. That's all in. Ready to go. Good.

[00:07:09]Quick check of the top panel. We've got engine started now so we can lose the APU bleed. Lose the APU. Let's get our taxi lights to on. Engine selector switch back to normal. Arm the speed brakes. Flaps are set to two. And we'll get our predictive windshare on. And we'll do auto brake set to max. And of course, we'll give the cabin a little ding-dong as well. And with that, we I believe are ready for a little taxi. So, we'll see where they send us. I've got the charts here and we'll uh we'll work that out as we go.

[00:07:38]>> Uh ground 207 X-ray, we are ready for taxi.

[00:07:43]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray runway 28 taxi via November Fox Trot inner alpha alpha 1 >> taxi runway 28 via November Foxtrot inner alpha alpha 1 for N 207 X-ray. All right, here we go. This Ron November, then it's Foxtrop. Then we've got the inner taxi way. Then they said alpha and we're going to hold alpha 1 for runway 28. Good. Let's go.

[00:08:20]One lema echo. Cross runway 28.

[00:08:24]One lema echo.

[00:08:27]>> Oh, hello. What's going on here? Cross runway 28. Is that you? You're gonna bump right into me if you do that.

[00:08:34]>> Let's just stop for a minute and see where you go, shall we?

[00:08:38]>> Okay, that one looks like he stopped.

[00:08:40]I'm going to keep continuing to alpha 1, which is where I was cleared to go.

[00:08:44]Right, let's say hello to tower. Tower not 207 x-ray. Uh, holding alpha 1 for runway 28.

[00:08:52]>> X-ray November. Of 207 x-ray, runway 28.

[00:08:56]Backtrack approved.

[00:08:58]Okay, we don't really want to backtrack because we're at the end of uh runway 28. So, I'm just going to ask for uh lineup clearance. Tower not 207 x-ray.

[00:09:08]Request lineup runway 28.

[00:09:11]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray runway 28. Line up and wait.

[00:09:17]>> Line up and wait. Runway 28. Air 207 X-ray.

[00:09:25]That wind control uh radio panel is definitely feeling very very nice indeed. It's got a very nice clickiness on the dials.

[00:09:31]>> Liking that a lot so far. And I imagine it's going to get a good load of use on the way over to Bristol as well. Cuz of course we're not just going to get chucked over to Unicom, are we on saying intentions. It's going to be basically traveling through every single sector there is from here to Bristol. So it's going to be gate to gate coverage. So it will get its use today. I can tell you that much. Let's get ourselves lined up.

[00:09:50]So we're lined up. We haven't actually heard anything from tower yet. We've been here for a good 30 seconds, maybe more. And this feels familiar to when we were flying Manchester down to Gatwick on the last time we checked in on say intentions. It felt like the clearance was good, the ground was good. It just felt like with tower I had to be a little bit more proactive and kind of be like, you know, I'm over here guys, you know. Um, and it feels like we're getting kind of a similar experience here at Zurich. Tower not 207 x-ray lined up runway 28.

[00:10:23]It's heard me.

[00:10:25]Let's try again. Zurich Tala and not 207 x-ray.

[00:10:32]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray runway 28 line up and wait.

[00:10:38]>> Uh Zurich tower air 207 X-ray we are lined up runway 28.

[00:10:43]Okay, so the transcript has got me there. Look, Zurich Tower, we are lined up on runway 28. That's good. So hopefully whatever it says now, we know that it's heard us rather than it's misconstrued what I was saying through the mic. Well, at least we can uh tune our departure frequency 125 niner 555.

[00:11:00]Um because of course that is what's going to be next. It says on the charts um when instructed contact Zurich departure. So we'll see if say intentions does that. I'm going to just like ask now for takeoff clearance. I'm not sure it fully understands what's going on at the moment. Zurich tower not 207 x-ray request takeoff clearance.

[00:11:21]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray runway 28 winds 330 at four cleared for takeoff.

[00:11:28]Clear takeoff runway 28 and not 207 X-ray. We've got our standby frequency in here ready to go. Um so that should be nice and easy once we get airborne.

[00:11:36]It's going to be a takeoff and then a turn to the left. And we're going to head up to 5,000 ft initially because that's what we've been cleared to uh via the clearance controller earlier on.

[00:11:44]Parking brake off.

[00:11:50]Cabin crew, armed doors and cross check.

[00:11:59]Manflex 56 SRS green, runway green, auto thrust blue. Speed tape is alive.

[00:12:13]V1 on runway 34.

[00:12:17]>> Rotate.

[00:12:45]Member Oscar 207 X-ray contact Zurich final departure on 125 decimal 955 >> contact Z departure on 125 decimal ner 55 not 20 x-ray Charlie >> okay let's make our turn and switch that frequency z departure not 207 x-ray. Uh, passing 3,700 for 5,000 on the Vebbit 4 whiskey departure.

[00:13:17]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray Zurich.

[00:13:21]Final departure identified. Climb 7,000.

[00:13:26]>> Climb 7,000. 207 X-ray.

[00:13:30]Round to the right we go. I've immediately failed in one of my first objectives for today because in all the um huff of getting uh saying intentions started and getting all excited, we're talking to the controllers, I completely forgot to start new sky. So, we will have to do this flight again. Oh man.

[00:13:45]So, we failed our first objective.

[00:13:47]>> Oscar 207 x-ray. Climb flight level 220.

[00:13:51]>> Climb flight level 220, not 207 x-ray.

[00:13:56]>> That's all right. I'll do the flight again on stream of you because I'm a jolly good bloke.

[00:14:00]Which, by the way, make sure you're subbed so you can maybe catch that stream. Um, either here on YouTube or on Twitch. Twitch.tv/n. Oh man, how to turn a complete negative into a positive. I swear that's half the job of being a YouTuber. Everything just goes wrong and you're like, "Ah, I need to put some positive spin on this somehow so I don't look like such a ginormous idiot." And well, here we are. Honestly, it's amazing that brands like Wing Control Say Intentions. Anyone would just be willing to have anything to do with me.

[00:14:25]So, I'm very grateful to you all. Oh, man. Still, the views are good. Swiss 18800 for 4,000.

[00:14:33]>> Anyway, 10,000 ft.

[00:14:35]>> Thanks.

[00:14:36]>> Let's give our lights a rest.

[00:14:40]Let's dip the nose. Let that plane accelerate beyond 25 knots.

[00:14:45]And we are in business. Autopilot on. I tell you, I'm I'm sure that there's some sort of like addiction going on with me and caffeine cuz as soon as I press autopilot, I'm like, "Ah, good. I can have a coffee now." And I immediately want to go and get a coffee. X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray. Climb flight level 280.

[00:15:03]>> Climb flight level 280, not 207 X-ray.

[00:15:06]Seat belts can come off.

[00:15:09]And we can't see a damn thing now. We're in the soup. Oh, there it is. No, it's gone again. Okay, fine. Uh, if you want to get the liveries, by the way, that you see today, you can do so on our website, air.co.uk/ies.

[00:15:21]And while I've got your attention, uh, take a look at the website if you're there getting a livery because on the front page, we've got this little slider that shows us the 10 most abandoned aircraft on the virtual airline, that is to say, on New Sky. We've got a video out now that explains all about New Sky.

[00:15:36]So, if you're wondering what New Sky is and how the virtual aine works, go watch that. It'll explain it. Um, but these are all the planes that we have running for the virtual aine. If we click view all planes, we see a massive list. And these are basically planes that somebody has flown somewhere and then no one's bothered to fly it back. So at the moment, you can see we've got a 319 uh of this specific registration stuck in uh what is Miami. It was flown there 64 days ago and it hasn't moved since. So if you're looking for somewhere to fly, something to do, you want to make yourself uh feel a bit useful, come on to here, look at the red numbers, and >> x-ray climb flight level 3.

[00:16:12]>> 340 for not 207 x-ray. Honestly, I was in the middle of like explaining my virtual airline. Right. 340. Let's get you in. And now I can get back to explaining about the virtual airline. So yeah, if you want to um do a bit of cleanup ops, make yourself feel useful, help the airline out a ton, pick a plane and fly it somewhere. Fly it wherever you want. Ideally maybe back to a hub like a bigger airport that therefore contact Swiss radar on 133.

[00:16:41]>> Uh Swiss radar 1335 air. 207 x-ray. Uh, what was it? 1 33 0 5 I think it was. Now, if you're unsure, I guess you could do a VATS sim and ask, or if you really can't be bothered to do that, you can use the say intentions app, which is here. And it should tell us, what was it? 13305.

[00:17:09]Yeah. So, that' be 133 050 according to this here, which is good.

[00:17:14]So, let's get in touch and we'll say hello. Swiss radar air 207 x-ray flight level 1 190 for 340.

[00:17:22]Sometimes I'm noticing that the app will oscar identified. Good afternoon.

[00:17:28]>> Yay. Sometimes I'm noticing that when I do the push to talk, it will then throw the app up. But then sometimes it doesn't. So, I don't know if I'm like minimizing it wrong. If I just click on the sim or do I need to like just minimize it here? I don't know. We'll see what happens. Right. I'm going to finally get back to explaining about the virtual airline. So yeah, if you want to help us out, um, fly for the airline, get yourself an account on New Sky, come join the airline, and if you want to help us out in particular, you can start cleaning up some of these planes that have been, uh, abandoned in various different >> X-ray contact one niner 225 and not 207 x-ray. Okay, let's uh, get that in. What are they called? Alps radar Zurich center. Here we go. Switch over. Zurich center not 207 x-ray flight level 220 for 3 4 0 >> Xray Oscar 207 x-ray alps radar zur center identified sie >> xray oscar 207 x-ray contacts control on 121 decimal 075 12 0 75 and not 207 x-rays control air 207 x-ray flight level 247 for 340.

[00:18:45]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 Xrays control identified. Good afternoon.

[00:18:50]>> Good afternoon to you. Yeah, there's going to be a lot of radio switching I fancy because we're coming all the way from Zurich, which is down here.

[00:18:57]Obviously, this is a VATSim map and we're not on VATSim, so don't worry about that. But we're going to be obviously flying all the way from Zurich across France over to UK airspace and then into Bristol. If you look around in the whole of the UK right now, if we ignore Dublin, um we've got Leeds Approach and Heathrow Ground and Tower. That's it. Everything else in the UK right now is Unicom. Even, you know, Bristol there's absolutely nothing on. You don't often get stuff in Bristol, but sometimes you can. So, that's kind of where the appeal of something like say intentions would come into play. There is a thing you can do um which we're not going to do today because we're doing a gatetogate flight with Say intentions today. But there is a thing you can do is that when you get chucked over to Unicom on Vatim, you can then hand over to Say Intentions and Say Intentions will run the flight for you. Um however, you do need to make sure that what you're doing based on what Say Intentions is telling you to do is not going to conflict with anyone else on Uniccom. Um so there's a little bit more to consider there. Maybe we'll do a video on that actually as our next say intentions video cuz that'd be quite an interesting thing to do. Look at those contrails. But actually, you almost see more contrails when you're using Say Intentions than you do with that sim cuz now we've got the uh GFX plugin from Try Try Sim. We're seeing um contrails left and right. That looks like a really full sky. Really full. How cool is that? The question still remains, doesn't it?

[00:20:16]Where am I going to put this longterm?

[00:20:18]Because I don't know if you saw the video a few weeks ago, I made like a desk mountable uh A320 setup using like all the wind control stuff, and it's amazing. Trouble is, there's not an obvious place for me to mount this. Um, and if I were to get the TCS unit as well in time, that's yet another thing that I need to find a home for. Um, the more I think about this, the more I'm starting to kind of accept that maybe I might need to build a pedestal. Maybe not a full cockpit, you know, not trying to build anything like that yet, but maybe some sort of like MDF pedestal that I can have off to my side here that can just house the whole lot. Um, well then I don't know what I can do with my AGP. Maybe I'll need to do I've got the AGP. I've got the screen. Oh, I don't know. It's like it never ends. Um, basically it's all wind controls fault and if they could stop releasing all this hardware, I wouldn't need to build any of this. That's a video title there, isn't it? Like wind control forced me to build a an Airbus A320 cockpit. Wind control are a menace and must be stopped. That's another video title.

[00:21:16]Just brainstorming here. Love you control. Uh, Air 207 X-ray requesting 5 minutes out of cockpit. X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray approved 5 minutes out of cockpit granted.

[00:21:28]>> That's cool. I didn't know if it was even going to do that or just be like I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:21:31]That's cool. Um feel like I'm on a stream right now, but um yeah, you probably know where this is going if you're a regular on the streams. I'm going to make a cup of coffee. See you in a minute.

[00:21:43]Look at those contrails. So, if we look out the other side, are we going to see the plane? Yeah, there it goes. Look how cool is that?

[00:21:50]I I think honestly GFX from try sim is worth the $20 pounds whatever it is alone just for the contrails. We've done a video all about it. Um and I'd encourage you to watch it, but if you're a say intentions a VAT simmer or whatever and you want the skies to light up the contrails, yes, you could argue the sim should do it by default, but it doesn't and we are where we are. And if you want to fix that, 20 quid basically solves it and you get a load of other cool weather effects. I like it a lot.

[00:22:14]It's very cool.

[00:22:16]What a coffee. Thank you to Rajado coffee as well for the coffee um coffee company on the aisle of white that we've sort of partnered with. Very very cool.

[00:22:23]Um turns out they're also a bunch of raging flight simmers like us. Uh so they've done a couple of aviation themed blends as well. They've got APU which is a dark roast and they've got Toga which is a lighter roast kind of a bit more on the nutty side. Um very very nice coffees indeed. And you can use my link regado coffee.com/airnot if you want to support the channel and get yourself some decent coffee and make a little saving while you're at it. Xray, contact Paris control 131 decimal 18.

[00:22:50]>> Paris control 131 decimal 18 not 207 x-ray. It's in the middle of like an ad read there. How dare it interrupt me.

[00:22:55]It's not really an ad read. They didn't even ask me to say it. I just like their coffee. 13118.

[00:23:01]Why does this keep popping up? Ow.

[00:23:03]Coffee is getting hot. Ow. Ow. Ow. I just spilled it over my hand. That was stupid. Right. Uh, Paris control air 207 x-ray. Flight level 340.

[00:23:12]Such a good pilot.

[00:23:14]X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray Paris control identified. Good afternoon.

[00:23:19]>> Good afternoon. Okay, so while we are at cruise idly sipping on coffee, we should probably talk about this fell here. Um, the wind control R&P panel. Um, it's been really really nice so far to use and it's been getting a good workout of course because saying intentions doesn't just hand you off to Unicom once you leave the runway. It's actually keeping you working throughout the flight changing frequencies to different control spaces. We we're now on Paris control and soon London control, no doubt. And uh yeah, very very nice to use indeed. The dials got a really nice sort of clicky action to it. Liking that a lot. And it's a full scale device. The screen quality is fantastic. The button presses, they feel nice and tactile.

[00:23:56]Even the little switch here is like an onoff switch. Um and you don't just flick it. You have to kind of like lift the switch and then move it and then drop it back down. All very very nice indeed.

[00:24:05]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray. Expect the IKEA 1 Bravo arrival. Plan for descent in maybe 20 minutes. Say the word if you want to descend sooner.

[00:24:14]>> Uh we'll be expecting the IKAM 1 Bravo arrival and we'll expect to send in 20 minutes. Uh air 207 X-ray. Okay, that's good. That's uh nice and proactive. We are barely beyond Paris at this point.

[00:24:27]So it's nice to have that now rather than, you know, once we're kind of over Swinden. So that's that's good. Good on say intentions for that. Um I'm still not entirely sure what the runway is going to be. Obviously, we've got the the the star, but no clue on what the runway is going to be as of yet, nor what the transition is going to be, cuz of course into Bristol. Let me show you what we have here uh into 27 is what we're expecting. But of course, you've got the BRRI 1 and the Barri 2 transition. Uh Barri1 is probably what we would take. But normally coming into 27, it'd be unusual to fly all the way out to the Barri Way point and then kind of tear drop back out just to come in again. It would be more typical to get vectors from somewhere like uh Pomax up here and then come down and then intercept the final. So it' be interesting to see what say intentions does when it gets to that point in the flight.

[00:25:18]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray. Contact Paris control on 124 decimal 85.

[00:25:22]>> Paris control 124 decimal 85. N207 X-ray 124 decimal 85, wasn't it?

[00:25:36]Paris control not 207 x-ray flight level 3 4 Zray November Oscar 207 x-ray Paris control identified. Good afternoon.

[00:25:46]>> Okay, so actually look, it's told us to expect um the one bravo for ILS27 transition Barri1. So we might get the full BRRI transition that we spoke about a few moments ago. Interesting. Top of descent 13 minutes and we're expecting gate 18. All right, cool.

[00:26:04]>> November 207, contact London control on 133 decimal 18.

[00:26:12]>> What's London control 133 decimal 18 and 207 x-ray?

[00:26:17]Okay, what was it? 133 decimal 18.

[00:26:24]There we go. Nice and easy. I always like it when the frequencies are close to the one that's already in your standby. It always makes me so happy.

[00:26:31]Under control not 270 x-ray flight level 340 identified.

[00:26:43]>> Yeah. So we are 75 miles or 74 miles now from our top of descent. So we need to enter our destination data. So what I like to do is go over here. Uh we are expecting runway 27 into Bristol. That's already in. Let's apply the weather and we're going to get our weights to start with. So, back over to the MCDU.

[00:27:04]Go over to the init page. Go to init page B. So, press the right arrow. And you can see that we have 61 tons of zero fuel weight. So, that's the weight of the aircraft, the passengers, the luggage with no fuel. And we're going to have 2.9 tons of fuel on board when we land. So, that's going to make a total of 63.9 tons. So, if we pop that into here, 63.9.

[00:27:26]You can see that it's predicting that we're going to fly off the end of the runway if we lose if we use the low auto break. If we turn that into medium, we're fine. So, we're going to use medium auto break to get ourselves into Bristol. As for the destination data for Bristol that the MCDU wants, uh, we are currently have winds at Bristol of 260 at 13. So, performance page, then we do next phase, next phase until we get to the approach. Uh, the Q&H at Bristol is 1017.

[00:27:58]1 0 1 7. Pop that in there. Temperature is 14 and the wind is 260 at 13.

[00:28:07]14 260 for the wind. And the minimums into Bristol according to the charts is what are we at? 701 801 801 ft. So we'll pop that in the barrerow and that is our destination data done. We just need to keep an eye now cuz our top of descent is rapidly approaching 60 mi. So it's going to be interesting to see if say intentions is on the ball and basically tells us to descend and just keeps us going down nicely all the way home. As for the arrival into Bristol, looking at the Say intentions app a moment ago, it said we can expect runway 27 on the ILSK1 Bravo via the BRRI1 transition.

[00:28:50]So, we'll get that one in. So, you can see the plan is that we're basically going to fly over the airfield at about what's that 3,000 ft. Then we're going to head back out and teardrop our way around and back in for runway 27.

[00:29:02]Usually, if I was on Unicom or even if I've had Bristol Radar online before, they will just vector you out. So you just kind of intercept the ILS and come straight in rather than going all the way to the airfield and then back out again. We'll see what it does. I suspect I suspect it will have us do the whole track, but we'll see.

[00:29:18]>> Xray Oscar 207 Xray descend 1 Bravo to flight level 070 into Bristol.

[00:29:27]>> Descend via the Ectam 1 Bravo. Arrival into Bristol down to 070.

[00:29:33]Air 207 X-ray.

[00:29:37]That's interesting. It's popped up again. Why does it keep popping up? Stop popping up. Ah, say intentions seems pretty on the ball though, so far, doesn't it? Like, we didn't have to ask for descent or anything. I always get worried with that. I'm like, are we just going to sail past the top of descent marker and then we're just going to be like, so what's happening? Uh, that was that was pretty good, I would say. Oh, I hope I do a good landing into Bristol. I always find, right, with these sort of flight videos, um, I always find there's so much pressure on the landing. Like, if I do a stream and we do a bad landing, couldn't care less. It's just like, yeah, whatever. But we all will have a good laugh about it and we move on. But basically, I've set aside today, I've set aside many hours to do this video, get everything set up. I'm going to do the edit. I'm going to do the thumbnail. There's a whole process that goes into it. And if I mess up the landing, I kind of feel like, well, the whole thing was just pointless. Um, so I need to be a bit more chill about landings on videos. There's this weird pressure. It feels like the early days when I would do streams. Like the first well many streams that I did, I would always, you know, feel excited about the takeoff and the departure and then it would suddenly dawn on me that now I've committed myself to landing in front of everybody and it would stress me out to no end. I would legitimately get nervous about it um in the early days of the stream. Uh whereas now I've gotten to the point where I don't care. So hopefully I can get to the same point with uh pre-recorded videos. We'll see.

[00:30:48]I'm working on it.

[00:30:50]Oh, >> coffee's gone cold. There you go, Rado.

[00:30:53]There's a product idea for you. Keep warm coffee. this time next year. Rodney >> trying to work out where that is. We are just uh Is that Swindon? I haven't got a clue. Haven't got a clue where we are.

[00:31:07]No, it can't be Swindon. That That must be Reading. I don't know if you recognize that from the air.

[00:31:14]Leave a comment and let me know where that is. I've got a funny feeling it's like Reading or maybe Slow. I feel like this is the M4 that's kind of running under us and we're basically going to track that all the way back to Bristol.

[00:31:23]All right, quick update from the cockpit. We are at flight level 20 nearly and we're going down to 7 well flight level 070 so 7,000 ft near us.

[00:31:32]Dam it. Be interesting to see if we get further descent cuz it told us to descend via the Oscar 20 xray cross 282 hotel >> cross delta 282 hotel at 2500 ft and not 207 x-ray.

[00:31:54]Right. We'll figure out what that means by looking at the charts. Um, so plan is we're going to go from Asham to Pomax to the BRRI waypoint. Then we're going to go to Delta 282 hotel.

[00:32:13]Is >> that for me?

[00:32:16]>> Yes. Uh, contact approach 125 decimal 655. N207 X-ray 126 655.

[00:32:28]Feels like such a cheat code using uh the transcript, but never mind. Right.

[00:32:33]So, it wants us at 2,500 ft, not above.

[00:32:36]It wants us at 2,500 ft. So, we've got that in. That's fine. We're still approach 2 07 X-ray flight level 165 descending for 2,500 ft at Delta 282 hotel. Nobody is listening.

[00:32:57]125 655. I got the frequency wrong. 125 635.

[00:33:03]My fault. Wristed approach. Air 207.

[00:33:06]X-ray. Descending through flight level 140 for 2500 at Delta 282 hotel.

[00:33:14]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray Bristol approach identified. Hello there.

[00:33:19]Cleared BR1 transition. Expect the ILS runway 27 approach into Bristol and confirm you have information. India >> cleared BR1 transition. ILS 27 into Bristol. And we have information India on board. not 207 x-ray.

[00:33:36]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray cleared for the ILS runway 27 approach via BRI 1.

[00:33:44]>> Clear the ILS 27 approach via BRI 1, not 207 X-ray.

[00:33:49]All right, as you can see here, we are coming right into Bristol. You can see it just over there. So, in a moment, we're going to make a turn to the left, head on out like a teardrop, and then come back in around on the ILS. Uh Q&H1017 is in. We're just going to descend ourselves down with the manage mode to 2,500 ft, which is the altitude we need to be at to intercept the ILS for 27. All right, that's us almost over Bristol. So, we should start to go around to the left about now.

[00:34:25]Okay, good. We are now heading away from the airport and in a moment, as you can tell, if you look at the ND, we've got our turn back onto final. And you can just see the glide slope about to hopefully come above us. There's a 2,500 uh radio altimeter call out.

[00:34:40]>> Everything's going all right.

[00:34:42]Everything's going all right. We've got our turn just about to start now. And then we will uh think about doing a lovely landing for you all. And here we are turning on to final for runway 27 into Bristol. But not for the first time because there's no easy way to put this.

[00:34:57]I uh I messed up. Turns out that when flying a star into Bristol, it's probably not the ideal time to play around with the buttons and the dials on your shiny new toy you've got in for review. At some point during the arrival, I managed to switch frequencies and then put myself back onto a completely wrong frequency, carrying on blissfully unaware that I'd effectively disconnected myself from ATC. I must admit, I did wonder why Bristol Radar hadn't contacted me to hand me over to tower. I eventually realized things weren't right about 5 miles out from touchdown. spotted the mistake, returned to the correct frequency and advised intentions that I'd be going around.

[00:35:32]Now, to its credit, it handled the situation pretty well. The goaround was acknowledged. I was then sent out over the 7 Eststerie, given a couple of turns, and then I was cleared back onto the approach uh for 27 via the BRRI1 transition. We lined ourselves up for runway 27 to have another go at it. And to make up for the error in my ways, I'll try and give you a super smooth arrival into Bristol. Sound fair? Okay, come on. Let's have a look. Bristol Tower not 207 X-ray on a six mile final for 27.

[00:36:05]>> X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray. Bristol tower runway 27 winds 25 at 13. Cleared to land.

[00:36:12]>> Clear to land. Runway 27 0 7 X-ray.

[00:36:24]>> Okie dokie. Go around altitude of 3,000.

[00:36:26]Hopefully, we won't need it. We've already done one go around already. Auto brake set to medium. Flaps full. Speed brake armed. Lights are set. Come on.

[00:36:33]Let's do it.

[00:36:39]Right. Autopilot off. Let's do it.

[00:36:45]Try and do a nice landing for you all after my uh errors by fiddling around with this radio panel that I shouldn't have been fiddling around with. I should have been flying the plane, but I was like, "Oo, new shiny thing.

[00:37:02]Now 27 runs uphill at Bristol. So we need to keep that in mind.

[00:37:12]Come on. Let's see if I can redeem myself >> with a nice landing after that terrible error.

[00:37:26]15 40 30 20 >> Yeah, of course it does.

[00:37:38]Oh, of course I forgot that bug with the Phoenix. It turns your right engine off at the moment. Post Sim update 5.

[00:38:07]X-ray November Oscar 207 X-ray. Taxi to East April gate 18 at your discretion.

[00:38:12]Stay on this frequency.

[00:38:13]>> Okay. East April gate 18. Stay on this frequency. Air not 207 X-ray. That was easy. I thought I was going to have to tune to ground. I appreciate that. Say intentions. Thank you. Right on the ball as well. Oh, I can't believe I d-tuned myself from Bristol Radar. If that was Vat Sim, that would have been so bad.

[00:38:33]Oh man, I need to learn when is an appropriate time to fiddle with a new product that I'm reviewing. You know, on the ground, maybe at the gate is probably more appropriate than when you're flying the approach, but that's neither here nor there. We did a good landing. We made up for it. Thank you, Jet Two. Jolly good of you to wait for me.

[00:38:51]Jolly good of you in Oh, you've dis All right, fine. Not that bad. I'm not that bad. Here we go. Into 18. Four zeros.

[00:39:02]Four zeros. Four zeros.

[00:39:07]And off. Oh no, we didn't make it. So close.

[00:39:13]Anyway, guys, we made it to Bristol, albeit just um I can't believe I accidentally input the wrong frequency into the RMP. That was entirely my fault. I shouldn't have been fiddling with it cuz I was on the right frequency. Um I was just basically just a bit kind of idly bored in the descent and I started fiddling around with frequencies just to kind of get a sense of how the device feels and the device feels lovely. It's really really good.

[00:39:36]Just make sure that you are actually tuned to the correct frequency and don't make the same mistake I did uh on the way into Bristol here. That was rather unfortunate indeed. Um but yeah, the actual device brilliant. Feels lovely in the hand. a really nice sort of clicky action as you move the frequencies and all the buttons feel nice, the screens are nice. It's lovely. Um, say intentions as well really great to catch up with Say Tentions. Um, kind of interesting to give it a little bit of a test by throwing a an unscheduled goaround at it, but again, totally my fault and it kind of just sent us out over the uh, River 7 for a little bit, the 73.

[00:40:07]Um, then it kind of gave us a couple of turns and then cleared me for the BRRI1 transition ILS27. I just did a direct two back to uh the BRRI waypoint at Bristol and then out we went again and had another go. So it's uh quite interesting to try that one out. It's uh it's I would say the only only little problem with it was was when we were at Zurich there was a little bit of confusion about um you know us lining up on the runway and being cleared to take off. I feel like I had to just give it a little bit of a nudge and I feel like I had to do the same thing at Manchester the last time I tried it. So maybe that's just a little area that say intentions can improve on. Otherwise though it's been pretty flawless. It's been hard to uh hard to fault it. And and again, it's doesn't really feel like it's on rails. Like I've I've just been speaking quite naturally. My uh phraseology hasn't particularly been brilliant all the way through the flight and it's it's worked out. It's picked it up. It kind of feels like, you know, it's got that chat GPTness about it in that you can talk utter nonsense to chat GPT, make spelling mistakes, grammar errors all over the place. It will figure it out. It kind of gives me that sort of same feeling. Um very, very cool indeed. Can't wait to see where it goes.

[00:41:10]really I again as as a vat simmer um you could say why do you even care about say intentions well I think it's a really interesting use of AI really interesting use of AI so always keen to see what they're up to and see how the product is progressing cuz it does develop at an incredible pace I really like this living world thing like I say landing into Bristol right now it feels like I'm getting ready to go on holiday cuz you always see jet 2 holiday planes like that of Bristol Easy Jets Ryan Air really really nice um thank you to say intentions for letting us have access to the system to make the video and thank you of course to win control for letting us have the RMP to review on the channel. Really appreciate it and it's good fun. We should do more videos like this. Um, let me know if you want to see anything in particular in the future, say intentions wise. My thought is maybe we'll try doing the whole batsim handoff thing next time. Uh, we'll see. Thank you all so much for watching. I'm going to stop rambling and yeah, sorry about that go around, but I guess it was all in the name of uh good fun and we got some content out of it, I suppose. But yeah, I do feel a little bit silly about it, but we won't talk about it. Thank you all very much for watching. Be good to each other, look after yourselves, and I will see you in the next one. And as always, happy flying.