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I created a short VFR AI flightplan (20 nm or so). When the plane didn't show at the designated time, I followed it (using MRAI's traffic board) from its departure. All went well as the plane turned downwind on the VFR approach but for some reason, it never turned base...it just kept chugging along on a real extended downwind. Can anyone help me figure this one out?Doug Parker

I'm looking around for an ultralight to use for AI and don't see any in the library here, just tons of heavy stuff. Does anyone know of any? Perhaps it would be easier just to use an existing ultralight pretty much as is. I don't think many lod models would be needed for something just flying in one spot 100 feet off the ground.

I read through the old posts on this topic and found some good advice, but I still can't get this to work.The airport is a water strip next to a lighthouse. It has two parking places, connected to apron nodes and hold short nodes by apron links. I have experimented with water and concrete links, and dock or ramp parking places. The aircraft now has contact points for both land and water.A plane initially will be in the parking place but disappear when the time of flight starts. An aircraft will arrive from another airport, land, and taxi to parking ok. However, as soon as it becomes time to depart, it disappears. An aircraft can also come from another airport and do touch…

Is there a list some where that has the default AI traffic sorted by cities?I use traffic tools but am frustrated at how the list is kinda jumbled together.Thanks,Mike

Read through some earlier posts about creating floatplane AI. Has anyone been able to convert an amphibian plane to AI? I think the problem is going to be keeping the wheels up for water landings. The plane is working good on land but I wonder if a separate AI model will be needed for water.

I have a question about how to convert an existing plane to use it as AI.I removed the VC and several little parts that would not show from a distance. I deleted the sound folder and cleaned out the texture folder of anything that is no longer needed. The result is that the file is about half the size now but it still seems large at about 9mb.The plane seems to work ok. It goes out and does touch and go's and then comes back in.Have I done this right? Is there anything else that can be done?Thanks

I have recently installed AISmooth but am still finding my landing blocked when approaching busy airports. The problem appears to be caused by the high speed at which AI aircraft carry out the approach

Hi Folks I recently had to re-install my FS9 to get rid of a minor problem. The new installation went flawlessly until it came to putting my AI Aircraft back in using TTools. I re-installed TTools as well so that I would get a fresh start. I placed my aircraft and Flight plan info into TTools Aircraft and Flight Plan folders respectively and Compiled Everything with no errors. I then placed all my aircraft folders back into FS9'S Aircraft folder where they used to be. I fired up FS9 only to find Default aircraft and no AI aircraft. I've redone this several times trying to find a solution but still no luck. Most of my aircraft are set for between 25% and 50%. The ATC in t…

Sorry if this is dumb - I want to populate an airport with several static AI (low polygon count) aircraft. I have fiddled with AFCAD2 but I never see any AI static aircraft when creating dock, parking, or ramp spots. I cannot use actual AI traffic since the taxiways are sloped and AFCAD wants level areas. So, just want some aircraft for general scenery. Airport is Ketchikan PAKT.Dick Boley @KLBE

I posted this in another forum area with no luck. This might have been a better area to ask this though. I'm looking for some help with the FS9 ATC when using modified AF2 files. The ATC loves to send me to runways that have been set for closed for landing, which is not a good thing sometimes. The best example I have of this is trying to land at Lukla, Nepal (VNLK) using the NEPAL AIRPORT SCENERY, VERSION 2.0 by Einar Aarvik. The modified AF2 file closes runway 25 to landings and runway 7 to takeoffs as it should be in real life. However, the ATC loves to try to send me to land at runway 25 without the option of even using runway 7 (depending on the winds of course). As i…

HelloI recently bought FDC live cockpit, and am pretty pleased with the software, I did read that the end user must, if they want to have airport amibance sounds and ATC , for the difference regins, that they must search them out themselves. As the manual points out, they can be found on different sources on the net, but where?? is there some stuff on AVSIM that would work, or maybe some other site that i am not aware of?Thanks for any input Zach Bender K7LTF

Hello,I have not been able to figure this out. I am trying to use this awesome new program by Lee, AFCAD. But to no avail. I have tried installing downloaded airports that people have modified and also just making maybe one change like moving the tower, to airports on my own but I cannot get it to work. What happens is I open the airport, save the airport, Start FS2002 and it goes to buliding new scenery, then the next step updating scenery database. Then on the last step indexing scenery files, FS2002 crashes and defaults back to the desktop, once it gets about 27% done. I posted this same message over at flightsim.com and I got a couple of responses. I restored the AFD …

I have created alot of flight plans for FS 2004 using Southwest airlines real time schedules. I only used the flights out of Chicago Midway using the "week" repeat rate. I probably have between 80 and 100 flights that I created. I had to use AFCAD to create more parking spots at Midway. I created about 35 extra parking spots. When I start FS 2004 every spot is filled. It seems that no matter how many spots I create they are immediatly filled. Then the incoming flights have no place to park so the dissapear on landing. I thought that FS only loads the flights that are due to take off within the last 15 minutes. It seems that It is loading every flight no matte…

Ok, you guys were so quck answering my first question let me throw another one at ya. Is there any type of measureing reference in AFCAD? Like a ruler in feet... some sort of reference.If not, I think that would make a good suggestion for the next version (if there ever is a next version!) :-P I'll even take an addon inside FS2004 that gives some sort of reference.

Does anybody know of a way to re-assign the order of gates after completing an AFCAD when viewing them inside FS2004?For example, when I create gates 1 thru 5 they will show up in that order in FS2004 under the Runway/Starting position drop-down box like this:Gate 1 - GATE SMALLGATE 2 - GATE SMALLGATE 3 - GATE SMALLGATE 4 - GATE SMALLGATE 5 - GATE SMALLHowever, if I go back to AFCAD and have to delete, say gate 3 for some reason, and then re-insert it later, the list will now look like this:Gate 1 - GATE SMALLGATE 2 - GATE SMALLGATE 4 - GATE SMALLGATE 5 - GATE SMALLGATE 3 - GATE SMALLNow they are out of numerical order. Can get kinda confusing to the simmer when you are …

I have installed many of Project AIs airline and cargo airline files with no problems. For some reason there are a few aircraft that are not appearing. I can see the aircraft in the Aircraft folder in FS9 as ie. PAIF100, but when I go to create a flight and try to view the F100 in the aircraft list it is no where to be found. All the other Project AI aircraft appear in the aircraft list under the manufacturer name Project AI. Ironically some airlines will show only some of there airplanes. When I go to a hub airport I do not see some of the airlines airplanes even though the installer was fine. I am having trouble viewing Fokker 70s+100s and many other types even thou…

Hi all!Don't know if i'm posting in the right place, so please excuse if wrong.Does any of you know where to find ai flight plans for the wicked c-130s that we've been seeing show up in our daily downloadables???Is there a military flightplan site for ai to anyone's knowledge?i've seen a few on AVSIM and projectai site but nothing as extensive as the repaints.thanx in advanceSteff

I did a complete uninstall of FS9 after some CTD problems. Now that I've reinstalled FS9, I want to reinstall the copy I made of the TTools-modified Flightplans. I didn't want to lose all of my own flight plans during the uninstall.I put the modified copy into the TTools folder and wanted it to take these as the source files instead of the default flight plan file, but after a decompile-compile cycle, it doesn't want to work. I keep getting the default file with default flightplans.Do I need to go to the original source folder (FS9SceneryWorldsceneryTraffic030528) and somehow put the modified file into it?????I don't want to further screw it up, so I thought I'd check her…

Hi, I have added some AI commercial flights into French regional airports i.e. Flybe, Ryan, Easy etc. into LFBL, LFBE, LFBD, LFBO ...etc. the smaller airports have had parking added where required. Aircraft range from DH8s to BAe 146s. Now for the problem... If I wait at one of the smaller airports the aircraft just appears in its parking spot at the aproximate arrival time, it doesn't fly to the airport, whereas if I follow the A/C from it's departure Airport it takes-off, flies its whole leg, lands, taxis and parks. This problem doesn't present itself with the larger airports such as LFBD, LFBO, only the smaller ones, LFBE, LFBX etc. I've checked the AFCADs fo…

I'm redoing KSLC afcad and scenery. My eventual goal is a project "Utah" that has lots of GA traffic going between the area airports.KSLC has 2 runways 34/16L&R that are on either side of the terminals that's used primarily for airline, cargo, etc. Then there is runway 35/17 that's on the east side next to all of the GA parking, facilities, hangers, etc.I've seen a couple of AFCAD files that simply disable runway 35 because of all the problems caused with Jets taxing across the distance. I want my GA though.Since overlays no longer exist and there is no real way to segregate which aircraft land where (I know that lengthening/shortening runways sometimes help, but I…

does anyone know how to change the touch down angle for AI? they just seem to hit the runway real hard.thank in advance.Tio

Hi,for a few aircrafts i would like to have them cruising around as AI but since i do not really want to mess around, is there any good tutorial out there on changing the FD especially for AI aircraft? if not, which params do i have actually to change then? i would really like to have F14's and F16's landing on AFCAD-equipped carriers and i clearly understand that i therefore have to change the FD attached to it, so.. any help?thanks,chrishna

What parameter determines the elevation of AI aircraft when at an airport?I'm trying to make Shehryar Ansari's FS2002 scenery for KLGB Long Beach work in FS2004. Airport elevation is 60 feet, but I need a flatten command at 57 feet to make the scenery work. That puts the AI aircraft 3 feet above the ramps, taxiways and runways.I've tried changing the airport elevation to 57 feet in AFCAD2 and the Airports.txt files.Thanks for any help.Dave WilkinsFalcon307

Hi everyone,I'm starting a VA (flyaerojet.cjb.net) and would like to program some of the airline's flights into a traffic file so our pilots have company in the skies and at airports :-). I'm totally new at this and don't even know where to get started.If this has already been asked (I searched and could not find any answers) please link to the post, otherwise can someone tell me how I add an aircraft to AI traffic then create schedules for them? Thank you very much in advance

I've been developing freeware stuff for FS since the days of FS4.0 and I've been working on a retro AI flight schedule...It led me to a couple of thoughts and I'm wondering if anyone has investigated attempting this yet....Is it possible to code a traffic.bgl file in a similar way that we can code scenery objects so that the objects only display when a certain day,date,year or range of dates are met?One example is the Fireworks in Las Vegas, it is coded only to display at a certain time of year.I'm wondering, following this logic, can we do the same thing with the AI traffic BGL header and make it so that traffic.bgl flightplans are only loaded when the dates are set to a…