Make AI traffic fly circuits

[Hageneezz]

Is this possible? And is there somewhere
where I can find step by step instructions on how to make this happen?

Thanks in advance

 

[Cees Donker]

Off course this is possible! The airfields I made for fs2004 often had an accompanying traffic file. I still make traffic files for P3Dv4.
I don't know where you can find instructions.

Cees

 

[Mick]

Yes. All my AI planes fly circuits. There's no reason to have them fly between airports because you can't follow them and you really only see them when they're on the ground or taking off or landing.

Simply use the same airport for both the departure and arrival airports in your flight plans. But make two legs. For some reason FS9 doesn't like single-leg flight plans. But it doesn't object if the two legs are identical except for the take-off times. It takes fifteen minutes or so for a leg, so allow anything over that between take-off times of the two legs. That allows for the plane to arrive and park before it departs for the second leg.

There are instructions for setting up AI in the instructions that come with Lee Swordy's AFCAD. So even if you prefer ADE9X to work on your airports, grab a copy of AFCAD for the AI instructions.

 

[Hageneezz]

Going to try this tonight, thanks!

 

[ian elliot]

All my Ai usually fly circuits also, i find that the easyest, I find the help file that comes with AFCAD is actually helpful

 

[Sbob]

The Aircraft Carrier Thread.

On to Traffic BGLs and AI. :wiggle: (PART 1) Again, just practical experience on my part but, you want to keep your AI and their flight plans to a minimum. Remember that the flight deck on the carrier is rather small and AI have a bad habit of getting into stand-offs. Also remember that...

sim-outhouse.org

 

[leuen]

Does the author eventually means that kind of circuits?

These are the famous Bee Gees of Golden Wings 3 Cleveland Air Race. I already tried to recreate the race at Chicago's Curtiss Reynold Field, With the same Afcad, same flight plans and same aircraft. But it doesn´t work. What you describe above are more patttern flights.

Bernard

 

[Motormouse]

Lee Swordy's Traffic tools can do that; you'll need to add some waypoints for the turns

 

[Mick]

That reminds me that Traffic Tools and AFCAD would be separate downloads. Traffic Tools is what you really need. I've had both for so long that I forgot that they're not packaged together.

 

[leuen]

Let's know what Hageneezz really wants or expects.

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[Mick]

Here's the Traffic Tools ReadMe. It's an HTML file so I had to put it in a zip file to upload it.

 

[Hageneezz]

Let's know what Hageneezz really wants or expects.

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Sorry I did not answer sooner. I initially wanted to make some simple traffic files, with AI Gloster Javelins flying from and to Boscombe Down. Just for fun.
I know of MAIW but I wanted to try something else...

 

[Hageneezz]

Here's the Traffic Tools ReadMe. It's an HTML file so I had to put it in a zip file to upload it.

Thanks!

 

[Mick]

You can find Traffic Tools at AvSim. This is the link to my search results:

https://library.avsim.net/search/basic/root/traffic tools

Note that there are FS2002 and FS2004 versions.

There's also a Traffic Tools Manual on the list. I don't know if that's any different from the Traffic Tools ReadMe that I posted yesterday.