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Is there a minimum required layover period (time between arrival and departure on next leg) I am working on a VB program that automatically downloads weekly airline schedules from the DOT database and creates weekly flights plans. Most of the airlines that I have tested have worked OK except for Southwest. Since Southwest operates many more flights per day than most airlines, the layover period is shorter. The aircraft are at the gates, but most of them never move. TTtools does not force a minimum layover period, but I noticed that the Microsoft traffic tool does (45 minutes)Any comments?-DN

ATAI - AI Traffic Airline Installer version 1.2 Beta was released today. Includes support for multiple liveries for each plane model (like delta and southwest). Lots of bug fixes.It is working very well for me, but please, more testing is needed to make sure :)If you make freeware AI traffic and would like to release it to the public in a format that supports:- Easy installation- Total deletion of installed package.- Reinstallation of new package without double entries in files.ATAI might be what you need :)http://www.boozecats.comE-mail bugs and suggestions to [email protected]

Because PAI does not yet have a full complement of US domestic aircraft, I augment with other a/c - many of which are not designed as AI. The trouble I'm having is that some show up with their gear retracted when at the gate. They then float down the taxiway. What is the fix for this?Doing many trials yesterday, I'm not sure that I'm convinced that PAI models are the best for frame rates. GMAX models may have a slight edge, but given the same quantty of a/c I don't notice more than a 1-2 FPS swing either way. What did make a consistent difference(~2.5 FPS) is turning a/c shadows off. A/c texture size didn't make a real difference.Also, some a/c do not allow the radi…

I've been using the radius method to add gates to airports and to get the various airlines to the proper gates. I'm currently working on KSEA. I was under the impression that a plane would be placed at a gate if it was within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure time. It seems that fs is instead placing all ai aircraft at the gates without regard to departure time. In other words, planes that are not scheduled to depart for hours are being placed at gates. The result is way too many planes, so there are never enough gates, so planes from one airline end up using gates that belong to other airlines and the time I spent sizing the gates is wasted. This is a real nuisance. …

Now that everyone is trying to keep aircraft in the air as much as possible, multihop flightplan lines are becoming very long, and exceeding the 256 columns that Excel accepts.Excel is a very useful tool for sorting and searching, so I would like to find a way around this problem. Have I missed something here, or is there no way for Excel to accept much longer flightplan lines?

Hi allHas anyone got decent AFCAD gates for YMML that they could share?(Doesn't seem to be much around!)CheersJosh

Hi,suppose I have two overlays for an airport:is it possible to have a common runway for both overlays?suppose there are two runways:when I have 25L for landings and 25Rfor TO in one overlay,can I then also have another overlay with TO's and landings on the same 25R?When I set up the same tower frequency with AFCAD for both overlay's for 25R,will two planes of a different overlay hold short for each-other,...?

I've heard that Pete Dowson now has the capability to at least "see" both ground and airborne AI aircraft via FSUIPC. I'm curious if FS has the functionality for a stand-alone program to control AI. If this is possible, it could (in theory) handle the complications of overlays/gate radius/disappearing aircraft without all of the work-arounds that we are having to do now.Taken to the extreme, one could (theoretically) create an AI ATC engine that could route AI aircraft on realistic departure/enroute/arrival patterns. Gate holds could be issued. Logic could be used to control gate/runway assignments. Overflow parking could be simplified. There could even be an IP bas…

HolaAfter spending countless hours on the tarmac, several hours scanning this forum, and pulling what remaing hair I have out of my head (pulling the grey ones first :-hah). I am still having a problem with some scheduling issues. I come before the guru's here and ask for their help with regard to flight scheduling and why my airplane disappears.The two flight plans are below. One is a weekly flight plan and the other is a daily of the same flight.WEEKLYAC#52,N237AS,10%,WEEK,IFR,0/00:57:00,0/@03:32:00,320,F,237,KSEA,0/05:12:00,0/@08:53:00,340,F,129,PANC,0/10:10:00,0/@13:32:00,330,F,198,KSEA,0/14:30:00,0/@17:07:00,370,F,288,KLAX,0/17:40:00,0/@22:39:00,370,F,278,MMPR,0/23:2…

As I use TTools, I have noticed a surprising number of phantom ICAOs listed in the flight plans. In other words, airports shown as destinations or origins in flight plans that aren't listed in the ICAO list that comes with FS2K2.So how can the sim fly an aircraft (AI) to or from a non-existent airport?I was working on flight plans in Europe and Middle-East I've seen big commercial aircraft routed from, say, Istanbul to airports that aren't listed. Huh?Anyone have any thoughts on this? Surely someone else has run across this oddity. Or is this just more Microsoft silliness?ThanksRick

Hi my friends,this time a very small question on traffic.bgl manual compilation.After downloading the updated VLM package, decompiling, editing e recompiling traffic.bglthe TrafficTools v1.3 compiler stopped and told me it found an error in file airport.txt(very strange! i didn't edit that file but only aircraft.txt and flightplans.txt).The error reported was FVWN,S18* 37.63',E27* 60.00',3540 --------1) how did TrafficTools v1.3 decompiler generate an error detected just a bit later by the compiler?Anyway i changed 60.00' with 59.98' and traffic.bgl compiled OK.2) at the moment i'm checking a new decompiled airport.txt and....voil

I'm new at adding AI traffic and have a couple of questions:1) What all exactly is required to add AI to a non-towered airport? I have been working on KGLS. I added a tower, parking spaces, frequencies and a flightplan but the traffic never shows up, on the ground or in the air. The airport does have ILS available. Are there some caveats that I may be missing? i.e. tower and ground must be different frequencies or something like that.Any help or pointing me in the right direction is appreciated.2) Are there only certain planes that can be used for AI? Any recommendations where I could find some new ones or repaints? I would like to add Southwest since that in one of the m…

Hi all!I downloaded the NorthWestern AI Flightplans and installed the AFCAD file for KSMP. I am noticing a very odd behavior of the arrival AI. They are crashing into the ground well before the start of the runway, and yet, the GA aircraft land beautifully. Also, the departure AI, when they get clearance, only use about a fifth of the runway before they are in the air.I believe the aircraft in question are Airbus 320-200's. Has anyone else had this problem? I have thoroughly searched the forum and haven't found a solution. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

If you build AI Traffic with TTools and would like to release it for other people to enjoy. Try out ATAI. You can create a package that can be installed using ATAI.Your package can be totally removed using ATAI. You can update your package and people can re-install it overwriting the old one and not creating double entries and other problems. This and other neat features available at:http://www.boozecats.com

I am trying to add AI traffic to U42 (Salt Lake City Mun No 2) airport. I have added the tower, tower and ground freq. (already has taxiways and parking)Do I have to add the airport to the airports.txt file, and if so where do I get the elevation data? (I have tried using the center point of the airport showed in AFCAD, but the compiler says the elevation format is bad). Also would I list it as U42?Thanks in advance for any help!!Paulhttp://www.advdigitalmedia.com/sig.jpg

Anyone planning or willing to do an AFCAD file for Chris Gilbert's new TPA scenery??? Please??? :)

Please see my post here:http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID8/11722.html

Hey guys need a little help.I am having problems with aircraft holding short and causing a huge backup at simflyers katl. I added an overlay to get all 4 runways active and things go ok and all of a sudden i see one plane holding short of 26L creating a line. I know he's not waiting for another plane to land because i edited runways to get landings on 26R and takeoff's on 26L.Any ideas?Thanx in advance,geoff

Hey Guys, I have a small scenery in Hawaii I have been working on, from scratch runway, with 5 parking spots. I have several 182s repainted and set up as AI with a couple of repainted Dash 8s.I have the 182s set up as a valet to the main airport with the occasional Dash 8 in for passenger service. the Dash will go up the runway to the starting point and just sit there, the 182s take off fine, any ideas.Thanks, Michaelhttp://www.geocities.com/res052cd/cmhbanner.gif

Hi, I was wondering if any of the Flight Plan edditing software available now like YRoute and/or AI Mover etc. do this for me:I have the flightplan.txt with 1000's of flights like most of you, a lot of them are "real-world" so therefore they would have the airplane go from "a" to "b" and back to "a" and sit there for the next 24hrs ("a" to "b" and back to "a" plan might only take say 3hrs) so what I would like to do is to make that flight repeat (in this case) every 4hrs instead of having the aircraft sit there till the next day.Ofcourse it would make the flight not to be "real-world" like but I don't care about this, just want them to fly all over all the time :-)I know…

I've been using FS Painter's nice CRJ as AI. But since the arrival of the OpenSky CRJ, the repaints for the FS Painter model have stopped. So, although a beautiful model, the OpenSky CRJ's behavior as AI is suspect. I remember the knashing of teeth as we all sought to remedy the OpenSky B767s as AI. They would crash on final.I'm not too concerned about frame rate.So before I have a go at it, anybody have any wisdom to share?I also am in need of directions to find more S American,Middle Eastern, and Asian regional jetsturbo props. Any one know of a web site?ThanksRick

I am putting the finishing touches on a few flight plans, FedEx, Northwest Cargo and a vintage Northwest Airlines schedule from 1949. I will soon be doing a UPS schedule. They all have flights that cross the International Date Line on the Pacific routes.Do I need to reflect this fact when I enter takeoff and arrival times and dates?Northwest flight 69 and 70 as an example:Takeoff: DTW 1230 L SundayArrive: RJBB 1525 L Monday (flight adds a day)Takeoff: RJBB 1645 L MondayArrive: RCTP 1815 L MondayTakeoff: RCTP 1130 L TuesdayArrive: RJBB 1505 L TuesdayTakeoff: RJBB 1635 L TuesdayArrive: DTW 1530 L Monday (flight…

I've been inspired by the excellent KC-135A USAF tanker that recently showed up in the file library. However, most military airports have no parking or taxiways, although towers are common. I've created a number of AFCAD files with enough parking to handle a few flights at a time at military airports. I'd like to assign taxiway ID's before putting these up for grabs, but I don't know how they are assigned.Is there an algorithm used by real airport designers to specify how taxiways are named, or are they merely at the whim of whoever puts the signs up first? Any ideas how one finds out taxiway numbers for existing airports?Alternately, is this a level of detail that do…

I am haveing a problem with one of the runways in KPHL. Whenever an aircraft lands on RWY 27L and exits at the S10 taxiway, it stops at the hold node and then sticks there, holding up subsequent traffic on the runway. I've checked the position of the hold node, placed a normal node within 70 ft. of the hold node (as is recommended in the help files) and checked for continuity in the taxiways. I can find nothing wrong, but the problem still persists. Anyone know of the cause and, better still, a solution?ThanksRay

I added parking spaces to EISG using AFCAD by Lee Swordy and when I restarted Fs2002 the game crashed on the splash screen while loading the new scenery. Does anyone know what is happening. I haven't got a clue as I am a young gamer. Please Help ME!!!