have you seen the Airliner Pilot by just flight?

[jboweruk]

VOXATC is a cool voice activated ATC system. It cannot control default AI planes, but instead you just hear planes talking to the same
ATC as you. However you actually get to talk to ATC, yes talk, through a microphone, and say all the proper phrases, it also recognises
emergencies and SIDs/STARs, though I never used these.

http://www.voxatc.com/

FSHotseat is an environment upgrade, it supplies you with a co-pilot who assists with checklists etc. and who can fly the plane along a
route. CP can handle lowering gear/flaps, turnine lights on/off, even opening the throttle on take-off. Other enhancements include AI traffic
making a lot of noise (trust me when I say it sounds real too), a radio that can be set to play all your mp3 files (nice way to chill when
flying on autopilot), and sounds from the flight attendants etc.

http://www.fshotseat.com

Both are payware and try before you buy, full functionality but limited to a certain area.

I recommend try them, I can't do w/out FSHS now and I know a lot of ppl who won't ever go back to default atc, I did because I had a few to
many near misses with default traffic turned on, and that I'm afraid is where the 2 of them disagree, if you want to hear the airport sound
real you need ai traffic, but Vox can't handle ai traffic so you are there but not there as far as default traffic is concerned.

Hope this helps. And I think once this comes out you would not regret FSHS in any way, as it does help to improve your flying. You have to
let the copilot do an equal amount or suffer accordingly, same if they do too much.