Simviation Forum - What do I need to create virtual traffic?

Mar 6^th, 2010 at 9:52am

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Self-explanatory. I live in a smaller town with an airport that serves primarily regional airline traffic, American Eagle, Continental Express, Delta Connection, and Southwest. I love flying out of my home airport (who doesn't?) but I dislike only having AI Southwest traffic there.
So I want to create a few flight plans for American Eagle, etc. So it feels a little more real. I've already got the textures and the models, they were made for non-AI flight, I just want to know how to create some flight plans for them, or if there's anything that I need to do to make them AI-flyable. Guidance?

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Reply #1 - Mar 6^th, 2010 at 10:30am

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Tyler012 wrote on Mar 6^th, 2010 at 9:52am:

Self-explanatory. I live in a smaller town with an airport that serves primarily regional airline traffic, American Eagle, Continental Express, Delta Connection, and Southwest. I love flying out of my home airport (who doesn't?) but I dislike only having AI Southwest traffic there.
So I want to create a few flight plans for American Eagle, etc. So it feels a little more real. I've already got the textures and the models, they were made for non-AI flight, I just want to know how to create some flight plans for them, or if there's anything that I need to do to make them AI-flyable. Guidance?

This will help:

http://www.michaelstanton.net/ai/

A fine tutorial on the subject.

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #2 - Mar 6^th, 2010 at 11:06am

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Great, but are their versions of TTools and AFCAD made for FSX?

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Reply #3 - Mar 6^th, 2010 at 12:23pm

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AI traffic files:

You can use TTools created traffic files in FSX with one gottcha.. if FSX sees FS9 files it will use them and ignore FSX format traffic files, meaning you will loose the default aircraft and 'ships and ferries' traffic (until you remove or convert the FS9 files).

Flightplan BGL Converter-auto convert traffic files from FS9 to FSX format.
http://lc0277.nerim.net/wiki/index.php?software

AI Flight Planner-FS9/FSX flight planner. Create, modify, convert ai traffic files.
http://members.shaw.ca/aifp/

Airport 'afcad' files:

If you have the FSX SDK installed (FSX Deluxe or Gold), then Airport Design Editor (ADE9X). An 'afcad' style editor, but with many more capabilities.
http://www.airportdesigneditor.co.uk/index.html

If you don't have the SDK, then the payware AFX from Flight1.
http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=afxv1

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