Tutorial for using AI Flight Planner V2 on YouTube

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I came across this YouTube video showing how to use the freeware AI Flight Planner to develop AI Flight Plans. Watching this video makes it look easy. So, I downloaded AIFP from the site that is linked in the comments section below the video and will begin developing my first AI flight plan...as soon as I modify a few of the smaller airstrips around my home town to give them parking spots and taxi ways. Want some nice small aircraft flying through my home skys...Piper Cubs, some ultra lights, other LSA type planes. Have them flying from one field to another just to flesh out my home skys....there is a TON more air traffic in my real air space than is shown in FS9.

OBIO

Oh...the link to the video (I don't know how to do the You Tube embedding things...so you all get a link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AxW2Or7AtM
 
Piece of cake

Obio;

Uncle Nigel told you three weeks ago, he'd walk you through that.
For someone such as yourself, who is already adept at tweakin' and fiddlin', this program is a walk in the park.

The instructions that accompany the program are so darn good, I can't imagine any stumbling blocks.

Whoever made the vid; well that's a very kind gesture to get folk trafficking...you'll never want to see default traffic again!

Ever!

There's nothing to fear with creating traffic - no boogeyman - get creating.

Thanks again Obio for the multie-installs...I now have a 6th for traffic and scenery creating/testing. :wavey:
 
Thanks for that. I d/l'd the video for a time when I can stand to listen to him, I tired of all his umming and ahhing. He really didn't prepare too well did he, still better than nothing. Should have prepared a script.
Thinks...... must try not to be so grumpy this year. :kilroy:
 
Naismith said:
Thanks for that. I d/l'd the video for a time when I can stand to listen to him, I tired of all his umming and ahhing. He really didn't prepare too well did he, still better than nothing. Should have prepared a script.
Thinks...... must try not to be so grumpy this year. :kilroy:
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LOL!

The written instructions that accompany the program AI Flight Planner V2 are so darn good, I can't imagine any stumbling blocks.

...is what I politely meant. :icon_lol:


edit;
to be fair - i didn't watch the video as I'm a long term user. i expect the person was only trying to be helpful (dangerous occupation sometimes :kilroy: ).

...but really, AI Flight Planner V2's creator, made such a hands on program, that by the time you've made a coffee and watched the tv, you could already have been creating traffic.
Its really no dark art Gentlemen. Even a simpleton can quickly grasp its basics.

Just READ the darn instructions somebody has so thoughtfully written for you!

Cheers,
A. Simpleton
 
Nigel, I appreciate your enthusiasm for the utility and I'm sure that over a period of time use of AIFP becomes second nature and at that point possibly in the time it takes to have a cup of coffee one could be creating AI Traffic. The inherent danger in most instructions, is that (obviously) they are written by either the originator of the utility or someone with an in-depth working knowledge and the "danger" I speak of is that they tend to speak "over" the newbie as though everyone has done this before and get too technical. There are 45 pages of information I don't really care about. What I'd like to see, just once, is an instructional manual that takes each step in the process and takes you start to finish in about 5 pages. No technical jargon, no history of why the AI engine does or doesn't do certain things. . . .just show me what goes where. When I pick up a manual and see 45 pages for what is described as a simple process. . .my reaction is "yea right" and it get's dumped.
 
Ok, aside from getting dizzy watching the kids cursor fly all over the screen and the "umms" previously mentioned, that small video tutorial told me all I needed to know to get started. An illustrated PDF taking his tutorial to print is much easier to follow than the 45 pages of technical manual that comes with the program.
 
That was a really bad video. But it does show how simple it is to create traffic.
I started making traffic files with TTools. Took some time to understand, a lot of time actually, but it became simple, like falling off a log.
Now I use AIFP in FSX to make or convert FS9 traffic. Making a flight plan is easy with this.
 
Hi,

I did some tests with AIFP and it is quite easy to code even a relatively complex flight plan. However, I still don't really understand how to use airfields that are not present in default FS world (Croydon etc.). I can install them into AIFP, but then it starts complaining about not recognizing default airfields. Anybody got a suggestion?

Thanks,
Volker
 
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