User Manual

1 · Getting started (once)

1. Create an account at copilot.atlantic-iot.com and pick a plan (there's a low-cost 1-week trial). Your subscription is tied to your account and works on any device.
2. Install the SimConnect bridge on your MSFS PC — open PowerShell and paste:
   irm https://copilot.atlantic-iot.com/install.ps1 | iex
   It downloads everything, finds your MSFS Community folder (2020 & 2024, Store & Steam), puts an "AI First Officer Bridge" shortcut on your Desktop and only asks one thing: start now? Press Y. Full details: install guide.
3. Sign in in your browser — voice and AI are built in, there are no API keys to manage.

2 · Each flight

1. Start MSFS and load into the cockpit.
2. Double-click "AI First Officer Bridge" on your Desktop — the bridge starts and your browser opens the app.
3. Watch the SimConnect light top-left: 🔴 bridge not running → 🟡 bridge up, waiting for MSFS → 🟢 live telemetry.
4. Hold Right Alt and talk. That's it.

First time only: allow the microphone when the browser asks, and click anywhere once so the F/O's voice can play.

3 · Talking to your First Officer

• Push-to-talk: hold Right Alt (works inside MSFS via the bridge) or hold the on-screen orb. Rebind the key in Settings.
• Hands-free: enable VOX in Settings → Voice & Audio — the mic opens automatically when you speak.
• Typing: click the keyboard icon next to the orb.
• The F/O speaks English only and answers with real aircraft data — fuel, weather, speeds and systems come live from the sim, not from imagination.

Ask anything a crew member would know: "What's our fuel?", "Set V-speeds 138, 142, 148", "Give me the approach briefing".

4 · Electronic checklists

Real airline checklists, run as spoken challenge-and-response. The A320, A330, A350 and Boeing 777 use genuine normal-checklist cards; more types are data files away.

Running one

1. Say "Preflight checklist" (or open the checklist panel and click a phase).
2. The F/O announces the checklist and reads the first challenge — e.g. "Gear pins and covers".
3. You answer — "Removed". The F/O reads it back and moves on.
4. If the aircraft disagrees with your callout (say, parking brake actually off), the F/O challenges: "Standby, Captain — Parking Brake is showing Off." Fix it, or repeat your answer to override.

Voice commands during a checklist

Phases follow each aircraft's real card (Airbus: Cockpit Preparation → Securing the Aircraft; Boeing: Preflight → Shutdown). Common names like "before takeoff checklist" map automatically.

5 · Charts & briefings

• Built-in charts — always AIRAC-current, in a clean zoomable viewer: 🇺🇸 US (FAA), 🇬🇧 UK (NATS), 🇦🇹 Austria (Austro Control). Diagrams, SIDs, STARs, approaches.
• Everywhere else — one-click ChartFox links.
• Briefings — runway data, decoded weather and NOTAMs for departure, arrival and alternate, plus AI-spoken departure and approach briefings.

6 · Flight plan & live map

• SimBrief import pulls your route, fuel and times into flight memory.
• The moving map tracks your aircraft live (follow mode — drag to look around, tap the crosshair to re-follow).
• Zoom into any airport and runways with lettered taxiways appear, drawn from OpenStreetMap.
• Distance/ETA to the next fix and destination, with proactive TOC/TOD calls.

7 · Automatic callouts

• Takeoff: "eighty knots / one hundred", V1, rotate, V2 — after you set V-speeds.
• Landing: "fifty, forty, thirty, twenty, ten" from the real radio altimeter.
• Safety: immediate overspeed and stall warnings.
• Monitoring: waypoint, TOC/TOD and configuration awareness throughout the flight.

8 · Settings that matter

9 · Troubleshooting