Hi - I am new to all this and am trying to improve my AI.  I have used Ttools 2.02 and obtained the airports.txt, aircraft.txt and flightplans.txt files.  I have added some aircraft and downloaded flightplans and all AC#xx in the flight plans correspond with all aircraft in the aircraft.txt file.  When I recompile, I get the following:

Airpot Count: 1936
Aircraft Count: 74
Flightplans:24027 Legs:53912

Complie of traffic.bgl completed

When I then start up FS2002 there are no planes anywehre (including the default ones) no matter which airport I am in or what time I set it to.  I have set ATC to 99% which is above most of the flightplans....can anyone help me understand why there are no AI planes around me and how I can solve this problem?

Thanks a lot!

Hagar - thanks for your response.  I extraceted the default.dp from CD1 as you mentioned but there is still nothing apart from the plane I am flying on screen when I start FS2002 up.  Any other suggestions?  Thx! 

Uhmm, this is a long shot, but how exactly did you add the new flightplans?  Did you  ADD them to all of the other flight plans, or did you delete the old flightplans and replace them with the ones you downloaded?

What I think you are asking is, can you use a single aircraft number (AC#1) for many different flight plans?

OR

This might also be an issue.  If you change the aircraft that is flying the flight plan, the times of arrival and departure must also change.

But none of this would make all of the aircraft disappear.  I would recomend that you decompile the flightplans again and see if they read the same as when you put them in.  A good way to do this is go back to your existing copy of the flightplans.txt and change the name to something else (like fp.txt) and then decompile and compare.

Ender

I didn't create any flight plans myself.  I downloaded them from various websites (eg avsim etc) and added them to the default flight plans so if I decompile and recompile, it won't make any difference.

Is there something I am missing?  Is there a step by step help available?

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I'm sure nothing's wrong with it Andrew. I simply pointed out that I haven't tried it yet. Therefore I can't give specific advice.

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Ender - cheers for your help.  I did the decompile and recompile and everything was OK - no errors.   All AC#xx numbers are correct - I have 59 planes in total (including the default ones) and all flight plans have been verified as matching the AC#xx.

EMH8 - I extracted the default.dp file from CD1 back into my aircraft folder and have followed everything everyone has advised me to do.  ATC is set at 100% but when I open up FS2002 to London Heathrow at 06:00am GMT, there is only the plane I have selected to fly on the screen - even though I downloaded some flightplans that meant there was a plane taking off from LHR every 2 mins up until 07:30am GMT - nothing there! zilch!!!

So, I checked the aircraft.txt, airports.txt and flightplans.txt through traffic tools and it confirmed that the traffic.bgl had been completed.  I opened FS2002 and still nothing there - what else can I do? ???

Hagar - the AI traffic worked fine before I added the new flight plans but when I tried to restore the original traffic.bgl file from the backup copy traffic tools created, the AI still didn't work.  Can I extract the original traffic.bgl file from the FS2002 CD?  If so, do you know which disk it's on and where I can find it?

Thanks!