Hello, Rob, Welcome to X-Plane as well as X-Pilot! There is a setting in one of the menus for this, but off the top of my head the actual setting screen to look at is escaping me. You're looking for a checkbox that says: "Reset On Hard Crash" The AI and the ATC were both victims to cuts made in the version 10 release. There was meant to be much more, but the deadlines had to be met and what you see right now is what we ended up with for the moment. Laminar is continually evolving this part of the sim. Unless something has changed, you should be hearing sound from these aircraft. Perhaps a settings in the sound menu. Again, the ATC was the sacrifice and is still evolving. If you think it's bad now (which I know it is), just imagine what it was like in version 9! I honestly haven't looked into this but if I had to guess it may do something with a sound setting or PlaneMaker. Yes, they do their own thing. I know that in the future it is further slated to be more of true routing, similar to what you're used to with MSFS. REX is not compatible with X-Plane 10. Hope some of this helps!