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PAI Traffic & Sheep-Herding (Read 337 times)
Jan 12th, 2005 at 9:16pm

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Over the weekend I reinstalled FS2002 as a necessarily file was somehow removed recently (d'oh) Roll Eyes .  Anyway, there was an issue with PAI traffic way beforehand, and thought that maybe it would be resolved once everything was reinstalled; turns out, this is not the case.  When flying near any major airport, a cluster of aircraft can be seen converging on radar after a few minutes - upon investigation it turns out a large number of random AI planes (upwards of 30) fly in a close formation, usually going in one direction.  Here is a screenshot showing a few Air Canada & Westjet a/c being escorted over Calgary, hence the "sheep herding" term.  It's something that can be lived with but is definitely nowhere near accurate - you ought to hear ATC calling out traffic when this happens!  Wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar?
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Reply #1 - Jan 13th, 2005 at 9:28am
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hi cafedm

The planes aren't flying randomly - not possible - they are following flghtplans. If you have the 'same' plane flying on the 'same' route at the 'same' time, you have duplicate flightplans in your flightplan.txt file

From the pic you show, it looks as though the factor is 2. Planes from different airlines don't count - they seem to indicate that you have copied a plan for one aircraft and used it for another but not changed the times. Although copying flight plans can obviously save a lot of keyboard input it gets a bit silly if you don't change the times Smiley

So open your flightplans.txt file and do a search for the airport where you know the duplicate planes are flying to and pretty soon you'll find the duplicated code. But unless it's in a block it could be a problem deleting it manually.

If it's not, and spread randomly through your flightplans.txt file because of how you've installed your AI traffic, it will be best to put it down to experience, delete your traffic.bgl file, restore the original (which you should have saved if you're wise) and start over again.
 
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Reply #2 - Jan 13th, 2005 at 5:37pm

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Thanks for the tip, have manually reset flight times for some of the aircraft in question and this has cleared up the problem. Smiley
 

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