I've got FS 2002 & 2004 & I've noticed that my skies & airports are missing other aircraft.   It's uncanny & lonely, & I'd like them back.   I think it must have happened in the past 2 weeks or so.   All the tick boxes are ticked & sliders slid for other traffic & I've ticked for labels but nothing shows.

Any ideas how to get them back will be appreciated.

Terry.

Thank you.

I'll have a look but I have always had other aircraft flying around & have used the red labels.  I've not knowingly changed anything or a setting so I don't understand how they can vanish!  HR & JFK, eg used to be buzzing with aircraft.

I'll post back.

FS 2004 has Scenery/World/scenery with bgl files (oblongs with coloured dots) & 2002 has SCENEDB/World/Scenery with bgl files.  There is also a scenery folder with a couple of Abacus files & it had 10 BGL files.
Traffic 100pc in both & labels are on in red.   I've just looked at HR/JFK/Seattle & Paris & the only aircraft I saw was a VC10 parked with its nose in the side of a large blue building at HR.

You're going to tell me there is a problem?!   

Thanks,
Terry.

Negative.
The Default FS9 AI traffic is controlled by a file named: traffic030528.bgl

If you (still) have it and your traffic slider is set to anything over 50% you (should) have lots of AI traffic in FS9.

"One can have as many traffic_name.bgl files as there is disk space for." Means you may have other traffic_files.bgl as well. I've made about one-per-week since FS9's release. 

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Are you sure about this Terry? I've never seen a .utb file extension & can find no reference to it on the Web. Do a search of your hard drive for traffic030528.bgl

I don't understand why you would have the same problem in both FS2002 & FS9 as they are completely unrelated. It might be better to concentrate on one, FS9 for example, & fix that before worrying about the other one.

PS. A common cause of this problem in FS2002 was deleting the file named default.dp from the FS2002\Aircraft folder by mistake.

It's been a while but I think the FS9, *.UTB file is an Ultimate Traffic (UT) Backup file which also renames your traffic030528.bgl to traffic030528.ORIGINAL (neither of which are used by FS9 but are only backups)

Again, as near as I remember (it's been over two-years since I installed Ultimate Traffic) UT makes a file named traffic.bgl (mine is 64MB) -- this is the traffic_file used by FS9 (plus any others added by user)

All-of-the-above begs the question: Do you have Ultimate Traffic installed with FS9?

"I did install Ultimate Traffic ages ago,"
Ah, no kidding! It's nice to have sufficient informaion when trying to solves others problems.

By renaming your backup you've effectively disabled Ultimate Traffic (did I say waste money?).

All one has to do is run Compile in UT and indicate whether or not they want to use Default FS9 traffic. That's it. UT does the rest.

Also, by discussing FS2k2 and FS9 in the same thread only compounds the confusion: traffic.bgl in FS2k2 is not the same as traffic.bgl in FS9

Oh well . . . if you're ahppy I'm happy.

References cited:
http://ultimatetraffic.flight1.net/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=1725&KW=%2Eutb

Quoted:
"UT disables the default traffic, and they shouldn't appear. You don't say which version of FS you are using. If it is FS2002, then after you have completed the UT compile these default aircraft should no longer appear, because UT overwrites the file 'traffic.bgl'.

If you have FS2004, UT disables FS2004's default 'Traffic030528.bgl' file by changing its extension to 'Traffic030528.utb'. Go to your FS9/Scenery/World/Scenery folder and you should see two files 'traffic.bgl' which is the big file generated by UT. Leave this one alone. You should also see 'Traffic030528.utb'. If it still has the .bgl extension change it to '.utb' and Save.

If you find that the filename is 'Traffic030528.utb' then you have another traffic file somewhere which is generating the default traffic.

This can sometimes happen when scenery designers add default traffic to their work for the benefit of those unfortunate people who don't have UT! "

Terry. It always helps to have as much information as possible. From what we know now it seems that your problem in both sims was actually caused by the same thing, uninstalling Ultimate Traffic. I suspect there's a backup traffic.bgl file in FS2002 in much the same way as the one you found in FS9. If you can find this & rename it that would probably return everything to the default.

Note. The location of the file in FS2002 will be the FS2002\SCENEDB\ATC\scenery folder.