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AI Traffic

Willy

Willy

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Just finished up our nightly flight with the guys and when I went offline, I was in a fair bit of AI traffic at the airport. I can sit and watch this stuff for quite a while.
 
I run just the stock AI traffic. But I LOVE sitting at one of the busy airports and watching planes come and go. Love watching them land mostly....my landings usually turn into wiener roasts, so it's nice seeing how it's supposed to be done.

I also enjoy parking at the head of the active runway and messing up the ATC and watching planes abort their approaches and go into circular holding patterns around the airport.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
I run just the stock AI traffic. But I LOVE sitting at one of the busy airports and watching planes come and go. Love watching them land mostly....my landings usually turn into wiener roasts, so it's nice seeing how it's supposed to be done.

I also enjoy parking at the head of the active runway and messing up the ATC and watching planes abort their approaches and go into circular holding patterns around the airport.

OBIO
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Well that's just cruel, disrupting the pilots their little virtual lives. I bet they go home to their little virtual wives in their virtual Chevvy Corvettes cussing you ..... virtually. :jump:
 
Wing_Z said:
Whew... full-blown 60's sim!
Must've taken a few happy hours to assemble...
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For somebody, but probably not for Willy and definitely not for me - there are great classic airports and some superbly crafted classic AI over at calclassic.com.

There are so many great people out there working on AI packages, that it is easy to have something waaaay better rhan stock for little or no effort; my main FS install has had the stock removed and replaced by WOAI, MAIW and others (the Freightshifters packs on Avsim add variety); my retro install has the Calclassic AI replacing the stock - as yet I don't have much in the way of military traffic, but I'm looking at dealing with that myself.
 
Some of the planes stuffing my hanger are just there to enjoy seeing as AI Traffic; usually parked around choice airports.

-James
 
I'm using a combination of the California Classic AI aircraft and others that I've converted over to AI that use modified default flight plans. I've also been working on and off with a set of vintage military AI aircraft and plans.

I've got most of the CalClassic airports installed. This one is their Lisbon Portugal (LPPT).
 
Willy and I are on the same sheet of music. I've got most of the Calclassic fleet and airfields installed. Just love the 50s and 60s period of aviation. My first plane rides were on DC 6s and Convair 240s.
 
Jagdflieger said:
Willy and I are on the same sheet of music. I've got most of the Calclassic fleet and airfields installed. Just love the 50s and 60s period of aviation. My first plane rides were on DC 6s and Convair 240s.
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I remember those United Airlines DC-6's and 8's. I lived in Aurora, Colo. for alot of years and as a kid, I used to watch them fly over Sand Creek on the East/West Approach to Stapleton Airport. Continental Airlines flew the Lockheed Electra's, they had the distinctive turboprop sound that always made me look. A trip back to the past....:pop4:

BB686:USA-flag:
 
California Classics has scenery for Stapleton. When installed, it also removes the modern Denver Intl airport.

I'm actually more into the 40s and 50s than I am in the 60s. I did include some 60s aircraft into the AI as either I thought they were cool looking (Cessna 337 Skymaster) or I needed something from the country that I couldn't get otherwise (That Aeroflot Antonov in the above screenshot).
 
Ah yes. Stapleton Int'l Airport. It was always one of my favorites. I grew up in Colorado so flying on Frontier Airlines over the Rockies to Grand Junction, Colorado or even up to Wyoming was a common event for us. We used to walk right out onto the tarmac to board the plane and you could watch it all from a walkway on the roof overlooking the ramp if you had time to kill. You could smell the oil and avgas on the hot tarmac. It was a sweet tonic to a plane crazy kid. It was almost as good as the little 2 packs of Chicklets gum the stewerdess would hand out before take off and prior to landing.

Do you remember the Curtiss Jenny that used to hang from the ceiling or when the United DC 8 crashed on the 27 runway about 1965?

This shot captures some of those times at the Mile High City.
 
Willy said:
I'm using a combination of the California Classic AI aircraft and others that I've converted over to AI that use modified default flight plans. I've also been working on and off with a set of vintage military AI aircraft and plans.

I've got most of the CalClassic airports installed. This one is their Lisbon Portugal (LPPT).
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I've got a chuck of them, and gradually adding others as time allows - got all the US ones, installed the Africa scenery, and working my way across Europe.

I've actually got an odd problem with the Seattle scenery, must go and ask at the Calclassic forum if anybody knows a fix for it.
 
Very nice time bubble...
One can take little liberties with your favourite AI, who's going to criticise?
My sim seems stuck in 2006.
Concorde will never be absent in my skies...
And on a certain Wednesday, Frankfurt EDDF just happens to have every heavy transporter ever made, be they Antonov, Ilyushin, or Lockheed ;)
 
Willy said:
Just finished up our nightly flight with the guys and when I went offline, I was in a fair bit of AI traffic at the airport. I can sit and watch this stuff for quite a while.
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Love it Willy! This is how airports should look.

Nothing can beat 'real' traffic in bringing our airports to life, whether large or small, civil or military, historic or modern.

Thanks for sharing. :salute:
 
Man... Cairo looked like a busy spot, Arab summit maybe??
You'll have to start tagging the exotics, too: that's a Junkers in Luxor?
 
Ju 90 in Luxor. I found some pre WWII Lufthansa AI Fw 200A, Ju 90 and He 111C propliners and used them a lot for flights originating out of Germany. Also converted a bunch of flyable Ju 52s to AI as well.
 
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