How do I use SayIntentions.AI with VATSIM?

You can use our VATSIM-Departure feature to automatically transfer your VATSIM-controlled flight to SayIntentions.AI's ATC network once you departure a VATSIM coverage area.

Please read this article carefully, as there are some important details here about how this works. 

As you are departing a VATSIM coverage areas, use the following steps to automatically move to the SayIntentions.AI ATC Network:

1. Make sure your VATSIM flight plan was also filed on SimBrief.

2. Make sure your SimBrief username has been entered into the SayIntentions.AI App Settings.

3. Depart the VATSIM Coverage area, and wait until they hand you off to the UNICOM frequency on 122.8.

4. Close the VATSIM app, or disconnect from the VATSIM network. (This prevents you from transmitting on both networks at the same time).

5. Start the SayIntentions.AI app.

6. Wait 15 to 60 seconds. The SayIntentions.AI ATC controller will contact you, and ask you to switch to the appropriate ACC/ARTCC or Radar/TRACON frequency.

7. You will hear "Radar contact", and receive your next IFR instructions, if any.

You keep your flight plan. You keep your squawk code. At this point, SayIntentions.AI is your new ATC network!

If I want to run both vPilot and SayIntentions.AI at the same time:

You CAN do this, but you must use a different button for PTT (Push-to-Transmit) for each app / ATC Network. This is to prevent a situation where you are dual-transmitting on each network at the same time (which would be a huge problem for both networks). 

If you're unsure how to do this, or simply don't want to do this, we recommend running just one at a time.

What if I want to do the handoff in reverse? (Switch from SayIntentions.AI to VATSIM as I arrive into a coverage area).

We would LOVE to have this feature.

Making this work would require integration and cooperation with the team at VATSIM. So far, our emails requesting a discussion about this feature have remained unanswered. If you want this feature, please reach out to VATSIM directly and request that they reach out to us, or at least respond to our messages.

If VATSIM decides that this is important, we will immediately prioritize this work, and it will get done quickly, on our end!