18 hours ago, turbomax said:

that's really cumbersome and especially in VR totally destroys the immersion. can this be assigned to a button or keypress? 

any idea why the smaller airports like KFHR and KORS for example, don't show any traffic at all? do we have to add taxi routes ourselves manually? I hope not.

No, it can not.

Traffic availability depends on the availability of parking spots. If the airports have no parking spots (check in World Editor), traffic can not spawn and AFAIK will avoid the airport.

thanks Bjoern

I checked KFHR airport from the SceneryGateway in WED and in LittleNavMap. it shows compatibility with xp 11.50, there are plenty parking spots but still no AI traffic observed, (to be ta 12.b5 or not to be ta 12.0.9 rc, that is here not the question) 🙂 

Edited June 1, 20242 yr by turbomax

@turbomax All teh gates are size A I assume its only a GA airport, do you have GA ai.Actually it cant have AI it currently has no tower Freq listed.

Currently AI only work on towered airports

Edited June 1, 20242 yr by mjrhealth

16 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

Currently AI only work on towered airports

yes, it seems that way.

another quirk: my x-crafts E-Jet 170 is obviously the culprit for blocking the runway so that all other AI traffic comes to a stop: the E-170 taxi onto the runway with the ground power unit connected and then just sit there idling. I had to take it off the list of AI aircraft. does this always have to be so complicated?

Edited June 2, 20242 yr by turbomax

37 minutes ago, turbomax said:

does this always have to be so complicated

Unchecking a check box is complicated? Oh the complications. Oh the calorie expenditures.

22 hours ago, turbomax said:

I checked KFHR airport from the SceneryGateway in WED and in LittleNavMap. it shows compatibility with xp 11.50, there are plenty parking spots but still no AI traffic observed

Did you spawn at the airport and did you check XP's map for any indication of AI traffic? Traffic spawning at an airfield usually needs a bit of time to get going.

You can also accelerate time to get things in motion. Stay off the ATC airwaves though unless you like fast forwarded speech.

13 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Did you spawn at the airport and did you check XP's map for any indication of AI traffic? Traffic spawning at an airfield usually needs a bit of time to get going.

You can also accelerate time to get things in motion. Stay off the ATC airwaves though unless you like fast forwarded speech.

I don't think you read my post. Atc does not work at non towered airports. Yet.

2 hours ago, Bjoern said:

Did you spawn at the airport and did you check XP's map for any indication of AI traffic?

I think mjrhealth is right, it only works at towered airports. which together with no VR support for the ATC communications menu, has totally killed all my ATC plans for  x-plane for me (I fly VR only). there are over 20.000 non-towered U.S. airports vs. only 500 towered airports. another bad design decision of the x-plane developers to exclude 200.000 non-towered airports and a major drawback compared to my other, main simulator. that's a real pity because when and where it does work, it was very nice and felt immersive listening to the engine sounds taxiing behind the Citation-X jet and KingAir at KPDX. all the way from the gate to the runway. I hope they will fix this one day. 

Sedona Airport, in Arizona's Verde Valley, is one of the many airports that operate without a control tower:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-towered_airport

Edited June 2, 20242 yr by turbomax

2 hours ago, turbomax said:

has totally killed all my ATC plans for  x-plane for me (I fly VR only)

Oh contrare, Only Xplane has you covered on that one

That's why I get reviews like

https://autoatc.zem-solutions.com/Testimonials.html

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jkeye 9 March 2024, 13:00
Can't believe I've missed out on using this for so long!!
Your plugin fills a gap in ATC and that's really needed for VR users in XPlane.
*****

 

Edited June 3, 20242 yr by mSparks

3 hours ago, turbomax said:

another bad design decision of the x-plane developers

Just hadn't being implemented yet, even in FSX you could fly from ga non towered airports, but currently people are demanding Sid's stars, even taking off at different points on runway. Without au following flight plans non towered airports are not going to be easy.

thanks for the video, unfortunately it didn't show a single AI traffic generated aircraft. I would like to see the quality of the supplied AI models first, which are often very crude and visually reduced down to a level that defeats the immersion for me. I would like to also choose from the default x-plane aircraft as in x-planes own built-in AI traffic. like the baron, Citation and Kingair.

I don't want to have to use a cell phone, all I want is to initially submit a VFR/IFR flightplan, then switch to VR and not have to use the keyboard or a mike again. I don't need a fancy AI traffic tool, no need for Flightaware or real world schedules, just a few aircraft taxiing, taking off and landing so it doesn't feel like a lifeless ghost town.

does your tool and the demo version provide all this, at all xplane airports, towered and non-towered?

7 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

Without au following flight plans non towered airports are not going to be easy.

it has been very easy in MSFS from day 1. All I want is select a few of x-planes default aircraft and see and hear them taxi, take off and land. and for me to be able to communicate with ATC in VR mode, which x-plane doesn't allow, another bad design decision in my opinion.

51 minutes ago, turbomax said:

thanks for the video, unfortunately it didn't show a single AI traffic generated aircraft.

That was on page 1, you also hear them talking through their procedures on the radio on that one, e.g. when it says "holding short of runway one two" there is an AI aircraft holding short of runway one two.

 

Edited June 3, 20242 yr by mSparks

1 hour ago, turbomax said:

t has been very easy in MSFS from day 1

Yes and how many staff do they have .. They also had FSX ATC which worked fairly well. Its not that hard to get Ai to take off and land, just had a few bugs creep in that have being reported, one has being fixed. I just dont like Austins stupid implementation, having a bunch of planes simply spawn and fly around you  Realy silly seeing a 747 buzzing your 172 at 3000 ft. I think they fixed that one.

3 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

Yes and how many staff do they have ..

no need for that. there are plenty freeware tools that do that.