Traffic?

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rich12545

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I always wondered why most people like ai traffic so much. I only see ai planes fly thousands of feet away, well I don't actually see them except for the red note telling me it's there. Maybe I don't care for it much because I fly only small aircraft out of small GA airfields. So I was wondering what others think.
 
I don't care about AI aircraft sharing my airspace.
But they are very useful to crowd the apron, as they can be set to sit around there 23 hours a day...

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Traffic in the air is not too important, but thier needed on the ground to bring some life to the airport. Scenery without traffic, people, cars, etc looks dead. I always add whatever my PC will tollerate.
 
I fly GA aircraft 99% of the time in the sim and do like to have AI both at airports and in the sky too. Think it makes it all that little bit more realistic and I try to replicate what I would see in the real world - the odd Cessna etc flying from here to there, low flying military aircraft - Chinooks, Hercules, Jetstreams, Hawks etc etc - its suprising how often that meet up or see something else when the skies are so large.

Martin
 
Some people get downright obsesses with AI. They're so picky that when an airline changes their schedule, they're re-tweaking their AI to match. Others will start their Sim just to sit in the tower watching planes taxi around.

I still have the box-stock AI installed and nothing else. The only change I made was to replace the "Gaia" C206 Amphib with a BFU repaint.
 
yeah i have defaults, and made some Ai at Cottesmore for Vulcans and Valiants, kinda nice when you're coming in in a lightning and you're cast back to the era :jump:

i've made several self use Ai packs... mostly using mike stones aircraft (Myself and the Ai) they work well together, shame mike got forced out of his hobby by the nit-pickers as it were...
 
I have TONS....everything from Justflight's Traffic program to ALL of the MAIW stuff, to several 'niche' ai packs...it just makes the whole experience more immersive...nothing is more upsetting than flying your Seneca into Troutdale and seeing one or two default aircraft doing touch and goes...or Oceana and seeing NOTHING lol
 
I'm with Felix. I have all of Just Flight's civilian traffic. Tried the military but got dissapointed when comparing to Military AI Works packages. I don't like flying around the empty skies and sometimes, I am one of those will simply load the sim and plane watch. I tend to favor military models so it can be wierd flying say an F-15 out of an empty air base.
 
I only used to fly with the default AI. I tried out World of AI and enjoyed the enhancement it gave to the sim. I have about 15 or 16 packs loaded and am happy with the effect. I actually stumbled across a Delta 767 at Denver International one day and followed it on a flight that took me to Atlanta. I followed it because it was an unusual paint I had not seen. I later discovered that this paint is real as I had found it at the airliners.net website later that day. Overall, it was just plain fun.
 
Obsessed? Of Course!

If you fly from a 2D panel and nothing else, I could sympathize with excluding AI...but:

I look in my aircraft folder, and note that 99.95% of the entries are for AI planes.
Think of it like this:
You could remove all your static scenery, and fly into a bare AFCAD.
But it's much nicer with, yes?

Now AI is to scenery, what scenery is to bare AFCAD.
If you do it right, you get more Wow.
And the Wows change every time you go there.
What could be better?

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I can understand what you guys are saying. But how do you see ai planes in the air? If it wasn't for the red text I'd never know they're there.
 
For me, it is less about actually seeing the planes in the air and more about the radio traffic. In fact, I have the red text off. It's an imersion factor. I got real tired of "Gia" and "World Travel" airlines. If you can't afford to strap on a cessna in real life, there is something to hopping into a virutal flight and hearing ATC direct other aircraft around. It's kind of like driving on the freeway; we all hate traffic but I'm sure we would miss it if it suddenly disappeared.
 
I used the California Classics propliner AI set and converted a bunch of other older aircraft into a custom AI set that I used when re-writing the default AI flights. Now I've got all kinds of neat old aircraft flying around.

Flight Simulator 1954, A Half-Century of Flight

:d
 
Why AI?

-because of reality

When I am sitting in a real airplane (airliner) I don't very often see other airplanes. It's dangerous to fly too near each other anyway (in reality). I'll see lots of them on airfields as in simulator too.

-just for fun

Sometimes it's just fun to fly within an AI plane or look at them on airfields with this: http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004util&DLID=55711 . With that program one can also easily change from one AI airplane to another.

I also make my own AI traffic and it's rewarding to see them fly as I want them to fly (or stay - you can easily make "static" planes on airfield by AI too).

Pekka
 
rich12545 said:
But how do you see ai planes in the air? If it wasn't for the red text I'd never know they're there.
Click to expand...

Not too hard to tell above FL 300:
Just spot to the point where the thin white stripe begins... :d

For me, it's a mix of MyTraffic 2004 as "base layer" and some selected CalClassic (MATS), MAIW and custom traffic, keeping my old tin in nice company.

Cheers,
Markus.
 
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