I have been extremely pleased with PSXTraffic at large and medium sized airports. Lately I've been flying into smaller airports (PAKT, Ketchikan, Alaska, for example) and the tarmac is empty (live: 0, parked static: 0). I'm curious about what PSXTraffic does for GA aircraft (maybe nothing?). And the PSXTraffic manual says to turn MSFS traffic off, so the result is that the smaller airports are completely empty.

Thoughts? 

It's not a necessity, but it would be interesting to have a few static aircraft on the ramp from time to time.

7 minutes ago, prolixindec said:

It's not a necessity, but it would be interesting to have a few static aircraft on the ramp from time to time.

That's what Park Fake is for.

 

it varies from airport to airport with surveillance coverage. The bigger question is what you have in your AI collection for PSXT to inject. 

I'm using exclusively AIG models, with the "big" download that brings in 7800 liveries. I don't know what it has in terms of GA aircraft.

"Park fake" -- Thanks. trying it now.

Edited August 25, 20241 yr by prolixindec

6 minutes ago, prolixindec said:

Kengtung, Myanmar

?? Not exactly a GA hub that probably doesn't have much at all for coverage or traffic even if it did. Default VYKG only has 7 parking spots as it is, don't expect much.

Edited August 25, 20241 yr by Dave_YVR

I'll let you know... on the ground in 20 mins. 

Edit: no traffic, but Kengtung is a sleepy airport anyway.

Point taken, though. My general question was about more traditional small airports, like PAKT, not ones in countries without a GA culture. I'm flying now with "Park fake" checked and I'll see what that's like.

Edited August 25, 20241 yr by prolixindec

PAKT might be tough as well as it's due to it location probably doesn't have surveillance to the ground let alone on the ground.

 You might have some luck looking in your PSXT\airports\archive for specific airports and see what it shows. I'm often surprised at what I thought wouldn't get captured movement wise but does. Way more GA and Military than I would initially have thought.

Update, I've flown to a few smaller airports over the last few days and "Park fake" has really added to the experience. Thanks.

I would also look into your ai collection. The illegitimate downloaded version you have may not include many of the recent smaller GA models that AIG included.

Why is my downloaded version illegitimate?

Genuinely curious, not argumentative.

2 hours ago, prolixindec said:

Why is my downloaded version illegitimate?

Because that "big download" is not coming from AIG.

AIG OCI only provide links to the sites where the legal versions of the models/liveries are hosted, and automates the individual downloads. For some of these sites you need to log in.

It is legally speaking in general not allowed to re-distribute AI aircraft (software).That's why you do not find  models/liveries packed with PSXT too.

Edited August 28, 20241 yr by kiek