ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
At any large airport, if AI traffic is enabled, there is a very good chance (but not 100%) that an AI aircraft will spawn immediately after the users’ departing aircraft vacates a parking spot. Ideally, any AI aircraft should not spawn until the users aircraft has at least started to taxi away to the runway (and preferably longer).
Coordinate or location of issue:
Any large, major airport that has parking spots - I’ve noticed it can occur at smaller regional airports too, but not as frequently, and not (that I can recall) at rural airstrips.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Approximately 80% of the time when departing from large airports.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
- Ensure that AI traffic (live or offline) is enabled in settings and Aircraft Traffic Quantity is set to at least “Low”. Higher values may cause this issue to occur more often (though I have not tested this).
- In free flight, select any aircraft.
- Select any parking spot at any major international airport (EGLL, KLAX, etc). A parking spot assigned to a jetway has a better chance of replicating this issue than a parking spot away from the terminal(s) somewhere on the apron.
- For convenience, set the time to daytime & weather to the clear skies preset.
- Start the flight. Use the Quick Preflight option to remove any chocks, pitot covers, etc, start the engines and release the parking brake.
- In external view, call for push-back or use your assigned keyboard key to initiate pushback.
- Watch as your aircraft is pushed back out of the parking spot. In many cases, an AI aircraft will immediately spawn in the vacated parking spot.
YOUR SETTINGS
What peripherals are you using:
N/A
[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
Developer Mode is Off / No changes (Dev-FPS enabled by using the -showFramerateMini switch)
[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
N/A
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) Driver v25.11.1
[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
Expand to see my traffic settings
| Item | Setting |
|---|---|
| Object LOD | 200 |
| Airport Services Quantity | Low |
| Airport Service Variety | Ultra |
| Parked Aircraft Quantity | Low |
| Parked Aircraft Variety | Ultra |
| Aircraft Traffic Quantity | Low |
| Aircraft Traffic Variety | Ultra |
MEDIA
This was taken at Hilo (PHTO) in the v1.6.31.0 beta build. The NAMC had just vacated the parking spot when the jet spawned in. At the time, the nose of the NAMC was under the tail of the jet when this happened - by the time I took the screenshot, the NAMC had moved a bit further away:
