Static inventory is available in knowledge item 117: AI Flight Instructor 0.26.0, clean inspected commit 49f5320, MSFS 2020/2024 adapter only, own SimConnect connection, remote last_seen and no local health API. Define a usable readiness contract for manager integration before adding automatic startup. Keep unsupported XP12 explicit, and distinguish remote liveness from local simulator/telemetry readiness. Inspect current start script prerequisites and preserve process ownership. Acceptance: capability availability matches confirmed simulator support; missing readiness is unknown, not ready; optional failures have clear causes. Live operation is tested separately from the completed static audit. Record demonstrated shared concepts with other bridges, but preserve independent connections until a specific consolidation case is established. Keep teaching/scoring development in the existing AI Flight Instructor project.
07 - AI Flight Instructor / SimBridge
Optional instructor experiment, telemetry and simulator integration boundaries.
Kennis
1 itemSource: user-supplied cockpit-Codex investigation, 18 September 2026. The optional instructor experiment is launched with Start AI Flight Instructor.cmd from the SimBridge runtime. It is not required for a normal cockpit session. Scope Manage instructor startup, readiness and telemetry integration as an optional session capability. The static audit identifies release 0.26.0 with an MSFS 2020/2024 adapter only. Do not expose XP12 support. Confirm runtime prerequisites before integration. Do not infer parity with RadioBridge or AI-ATC. Architecture investigation Compare SimBridge telemetry, connection ownership and reconnect behavior with the broker and WingRally bridge. Record shared concepts and real duplication before merging code or routing all traffic through a common service. This section concerns integration; detailed teaching/scoring functionality belongs in the existing AI Flight Instructor project. Static audit evidence (knowledge item 117) Inspected commit 49f5320 was clean. Instructor has its own SimConnect connection and runs on the simulator PC when selected. Existing liveness is remote last_seen; there is no local health API. Agree a usable readiness contract before adding automatic manager startup. Static inspection is complete for this baseline, but no live session or rebuild was executed. Keep timing/consumer-specific behavior when assessing shared telemetry code.