Simviation Forum - Air Force One AI

Jul 24^th, 2006 at 12:12am

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Hey Everyone.

I am looking for anyone who has the Airforce One escort thing installed.

I put the 2 folders (ai_hn_pari and Air Force One) into my aircraft folder.

Then I downloaded TTools since it is a raw file giving me "aircraft" and "flightplans".

I toke a guess and decompiled the stuff, and added the Aircraft numbers and flight plans.

After editing I compiled the Aircraft and Flightplan txt file into traffic.blg.

I am sitting at the airport since i looked at Y Route and it said AC#500 IFR 2 Legs one said it departs KDCA 21:13:02 GMT every 24 hours...nothing yet.

Did i do it right?

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Reply #1 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 8:28am

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It sounds as if you did it right but we need to see the exact line you entered as you might have forgot some of the commas or some other little thing.
Or in other words the syntax of the line has to be right or it will not work a common in the wrong place or leave one out is all it takes to totally confuse ttools so it will not build the plan. I am not sure about this one but try decompliing it again and see what you get for the airports and aircraft if you do not see anything at all for the plan you added then the complier skipped your entry thus not producing the plan. 8)

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Reply #2 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 9:01am

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Another tool that may help is the FS2004 TrafficToolbox SDK from MS.

The 'TrafficToolbox.dll' will put a new 'Tools' menu on your FS2004 <Alt> menu bar.

From the 'Tools' menu the 'Explorer' will list the state of flights in your area or destined for airports in your area.

An additional perk is that you can assign any of your saved flightplans to an ai ac. It will then follow the flightplan including 'point to point' routes. This can give you a more interesting escort than following a normal direct route for ai.

Example of the 'Explorer': http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=otherad;action=display;num...

Dave

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Reply #3 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 3:09pm

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Ok, here is the Flight Plan file...

With one of the default plane's flight plan in there on the top just to show that i put it underneath it.

Edit: On the aircraft I deleted the last default entry since it was way too long.

AC#500,AIRF1,95%,24Hr,IFR,09:12:29,21:29:39,347,F,9026,KDCA,21:13:00,09:30:10,34
7,F,9027,ORBS
AC#501,AIRF1,95%,24Hr,IFR,09:12:50,21:30:00,347,F,9026,KDCA,21:13:22,09:30:32,34
7,F,9027,ORBS
AC#501,AIRF1,95%,24Hr,IFR,09:12:50,21:30:00,347,F,9026,KDCA,21:13:22,09:30:32,34
7,F,9027,ORBS
AC#500,AIRF1,95%,12Hr,IFR,03:59:25,04:53:44,347,F,3459,CYOW,09:59:25,10:53:44,34
5,F,3460,KJFK
AC#502,AIRF1,95%,12Hr,IFR,03:59:46,04:38:12,347,F,3459,CYOW,09:59:46,10:38:12,34
5,F,3460,KJFK
AC#502,AIRF1,95%,12Hr,IFR,03:59:46,04:38:12,347,F,3459,CYOW,09:59:46,10:38:12,34
5,F,3460,KJFK

Aircraft File:
AC#59,62,"Vickers Vimy Transatlantic"
AC#500,447,"Air Force One 92-9000"
AC#501,447,"F-14D Tomcat"
AC#502,750,"CF-188 Hornet aipair"

Is that correct?

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Reply #4 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 7:01pm

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The mistake that pops out is in the first 3 flightplans, ORBS->KDCA->ORBS.

The departure times are earlier than the previous arrival times, i.e.-1st leg scheduled to arrive at KDCA @21:29:xx and scheduled to depart KDCA@21:13:xx. Same for t he second leg, arrival @ 9:30, departure @ 9:12.

This doesn't work well Wink

and the ai will likely just dissappear, maybe popping up somewhere on the next leg. Your next departure time should be at least 15 min. later than the arrival, to allow for landing and taxi (TTools calculates the arrival time as the time of arrival in the airspace, not the time to parking).

Nothing else jumps out at me at this time.

Dave

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Reply #5 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 7:55pm

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When i install that one program it doesnt really do anything noticable?

How do I access it?

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