Learn airliners your way
Learn by doing, not just watching or reading. Choose a supported airliner in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and fly the route you want. Albert guides you through the flight. As you learn, turn off guidance and take over individual systems, procedures, or entire phases of flight. Or let Albert take over and manage the descent and approach for you.
Coming October 2026
Overview
What makes it different
Learning an airliner can be hard and frustrating. Manuals and YouTube tutorials are useful, but putting it all together during a flight is another challenge. Albert guides you through your own flight and explains what to do and why. Think of Albert as training wheels for airliners: support you can turn off as you learn.
Albert uses no AI. It’s built around the aircraft’s systems and the demands of each phase of flight.
It can generate a flight plan through SimBrief, show a live view of the flight management computer, and help you program it. During descent and approach, it can manage speedbrakes, flaps, and landing gear at the right time — or guide you as you do it yourself.
Capabilities
What Albert does
Uses the real autopilot
Albert works the MCP and CDU. LNAV and VNAV stay in charge, with nothing overridden behind the scenes.
Says why, not just what
Each recommendation explains the limit or constraint behind it, so you understand the next action.
Manages the energy
Albert spots high-and-fast descents early and manages the speedbrake when the autopilot can’t.
Three levels of help
Choose Manual, Guided, or Automatic. Change how much help you get during the flight, and take over whenever you like.
Your choice of controls
Arrange, simplify, or expand the panels to show the controls and indicators you want.
Displays anywhere
Use the in-sim add-in panel or a browser outside the sim — on your PC, tablet, or laptop.
Technology
How Albert works
Albert Server runs on your simulator PC. It reads Microsoft Flight Simulator and aircraft data, sends that data to your browser, and carries actions from the browser back to the simulated aircraft.
It talks to the simulator over SimConnect, the standard connection Microsoft Flight Simulator publishes for outside programs, and it can also read your cockpit displays — which is how Albert knows what the aircraft is annunciating rather than only what its switches are set to.
The guide itself runs in the browser, on that PC or another computer or tablet on your home network. That is where Albert monitors, advises, and decides what to do. Keep the browser page open whenever Albert is helping with a flight.
What leaves your machine, and what stays on it, is set out on the Albert privacy notice.
Aircraft
Initial support for two aircraft, with more to come
Add-on
PMDG 777-200ER
A natural place to start. Its automation is advanced enough that the airplane is easy to fly and hard to operate properly — most of the learning is in knowing what the systems are doing and why, and that is the part Albert is for.
Built into MSFS 2024
737 MAX 8
The simulator models this one itself rather than an add-on modeling it, so there is less of its systems to read and less Albert can tell you about them.
Requirements
System requirements
- Simulator
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
- Aircraft
- PMDG 777-200ER, and the 737 MAX 8 built into MSFS 2024. More airframes to follow
- Sim PC
- Albert installs alongside or within the sim. Small footprint, no extra GPU load
- Operating system
- Windows 11 or later (version 10.0.22000). Albert may run on Windows 10, but I have no Windows 10 machine to test it on, so it is not supported
- Display
- Any current browser on the same network — tablet, laptop, second monitor
Updates
Stay informed
Albert is not out yet. The build and its known limitations are on the beta page.