Simviation Forum - New FSX flyer with many questions...

Feb 1^st, 2010 at 3:08am

Dave4468 Offline
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Hey guys, I'm Dave, 19 and in Aberystwyth in the UK. Well, thats the greeting done!

Now for the FSX questions. I'm entirely new to FSX and have a few questions. All about AI. Here we go...

1. I've managed to change the textures on most of the default AI aircraft (A321, B737, B747 & CRJ-700) but how many real liveries is it possible to make the AI use, most of the guides seem to say that it is only possible to replace the FSX default AI liveries with and not add any more. Is this true and if not how do I add more?

2. Is it possible to add 3rd party aircraft to the default AI ones used by FSX? It gets a bit repetitive when all I have is A321 after B737 after B737 after A321 and so on and so on.

3. AI density and air traffic. Is there a way to vary the amount of aircraft at airports according to their size? As I have it at the moment (100% AI aircraft density) it's pretty realistic at airports like Heathrow but smaller provincial airports like Cardiff are far too busy.

4. And finally. The iFDG models, can they work in FSX?

Thanks for any help recieved.

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Reply #1 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 4:30am

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Hi Dave!!

1 & 2 --> Yes. --> http://www.world-of-ai.com/

Check out that, as they have TONS of add-ons for AI. Take a look around there and I think you'll have your first couple questions answered.

3. Maybe? I have no idea.

4. No idea, seems their forum has crashed so any information stored there has been lost. I say just try it.

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Reply #2 - Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 10:58pm

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Thanks for the pointer to World of AI, it's amazing. Huh

But one more question...

Is it possible to get ground services to interact with the player aircraft?

Cheers

Dave

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Reply #3 - Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 3:26am

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Dave4468 wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 10:58pm:

Is it possible to get ground services to interact with the player aircraft?

Cheers

Dave

You can have fuel-trucks, push-back, baggage-handlers and moving gateways.

Just make sure they appear (by rising the settings - can't remeber the correct one for now: is it realism?!) and let them do whatever you want them to (have a look at your key-settings to be sure):

shift + p (+ a number for left-right): pushback truck

shift(?) + f: fuel truck

and opening the cargo-/ doors (shift + e + some number): cargo/baggage trucks/gateway

just two things: make sure you're exactly at parking position, and they won't show up on small arifields - but that should be clear...

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Reply #4 - Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 4:10pm

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with engines OFF and parking break set, press "J" to call the Jetbridge / jetway to your plane. If your engines are running and Parking Break is not set... the gate agent will not pull the bridge to the plane until you do.

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Reply #5 - Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 9:10pm

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Thanks for all the help so far. But yet one more question.

Installing scenery. I'm following the instruction in the read-me file and the guide on this site but all to no avail. What am I doing wrong?

Cheers

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Reply #6 - Feb 4^th, 2010 at 9:50am

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Which OS are you running?

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Reply #7 - Feb 4^th, 2010 at 10:03am

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Yes, iFDG models works in FSX.

If you haven't found that out yet. Tongue

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Reply #8 - Feb 5^th, 2010 at 10:33am

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Right, about the responces.

The OS I'm using is 7. I follow the guides and when I get to select the source for the new scenery FSX wont actually select anything.

As for the iFDG aircraft. I'm installing them as per normal aircraft and they simply dont show up. Its not like they are showing up with errors, they are just not even appearing in the A/C selection screen.

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Reply #9 - Feb 5^th, 2010 at 12:15pm

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Dave4468 wrote on Feb 5^th, 2010 at 10:33am:

Right, about the responces.

The OS I'm using is 7. I follow the guides and when I get to select the source for the new scenery FSX wont actually select anything.

The procedure is slightly different in Windows 7. This should explain it. http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4426

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Reply #10 - Feb 6^th, 2010 at 11:28am

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Greetings!

yet another newbie with questions, i've decided to use this running thread instead of starting my own. Wink

i've searched for days through this

amazing

forum for answers but they still elude me Undecided

1) how do i start Free Flight with my engines off?

2) how can i set the starting default zoom to ".50"?

Thanks for any help, cheers! Smiley

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Reply #11 - Feb 6^th, 2010 at 12:26pm

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Spindrift wrote on Feb 6^th, 2010 at 11:28am:

Greetings!

yet another newbie with questions, i've decided to use this running thread instead of starting my own. Wink

i've searched for days through this

amazing

forum for answers but they still elude me Undecided

1) how do i start Free Flight with my engines off?

2) how can i set the starting default zoom to ".50"?

Thanks for any help, cheers! Smiley

1) you have to shut the engines off and save the flight (mark 'make this default flight' [or anything similar]) -no other way to start cold 'n dark...

2) should be possible by tweaking the fsx.cfg - it's possible I'm sure but I don't know how... Tongue

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Reply #12 - Feb 6^th, 2010 at 4:54pm

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Thanks Meck! i'll give tweaking fsx.cfg a shot... too bad 'cold and dark' is not a setting in the realism menu... oh well, maybe in FSXI... Wink

cheers!

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Reply #13 - Feb 7^th, 2010 at 4:13am

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Spindrift wrote on Feb 6^th, 2010 at 4:54pm:

... maybe in FSXI... Wink

cheers!

which (afaik) is abandonned... Embarrassed

hey, and don't forget to save your cfg before editing! Wink

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