Just wondering what everyone’s experience is with AI traffic - usually have mine set around 40-50 but finding sometimes at the major airports have almost nothing other times I have a few AI traffic ready for take off or landing - but the most common case is I have virtually nothing - is it the same for everyone or do I have to change some settings to make the airports fill up?
Also I have a few real world liveries for the aircraft I do have such as the A32NX and others - I have read you can tweak the base livery files to get real world airlines - but I have found recently where a few A320 are sitting around the larger airports the have my custom liveres ?- just wondering what’s going and how you can apply these real liveries to more aircraft?
A few people are working on add-on solutions for that, but we should likely see what’s up after the next update on April 15.
It’s supposed to bring French airline liveries and even some French manufactured aircraft into the AI fold, so I imagine it’ll come with some changes to how AI traffic works in general.
Otherwise, I can’t see how they could avoid having airports in Tokyo full of French aircraft if you put the parked traffic to any more than zero.
I guess seeing how the update changes things is pretty much the starting block to see what else needs to be done about it. That’s one of the reasons why I’m eager to read the patch notes.
PS: the A320 are there because the parked aircraft setting will cause the sim to randomly select liveries/aircraft you have in your community folder and sprinkle them on the aprons. It has nothing to do with real traffic.
I set my ground aircraft to Full to populate the gates and parking. But I always fly in Live Traffic mode. So no adjustable slider for that.
In the end depends on luck. Give enough time for the sim to download the live traffic data and get it to spawn. And I can see Live traffic with their flight numbers and matching livery with the ones I have in my collection.
Hi All,
I’m struggling to use AI Traffic at all, even reducing levels to around 20-30% I would constantly get a CTD.
I fly under Live Traffic with no issues but would prefer to use AI interested to hear your running at 40-50% without issues
Same here, as soon as I try AI traffic I get CTD’s so use live traffic instead and that is very, very sparse, especially in the UK.
Hi yes glad it’s just not me lol
Also Live Traffic disappears as and when the transponder is turned off in the live aircraft and will suddenly self combust in the sim, although I believe this is being worked on.
Here’s hoping a upcoming update improves the situation or a 3rd party company introduces something in the future.
Self combust? Like caught on fire 
?
The live traffic is not THAT live. You can have traffic that arrived or departed 20 minutes ago. The main reason for planes to disappear is that they are not able to reach the runway.
Live traffic is merely downloading the traffic data used to “spawn” the aircraft. Then the traffic behaves just like any offline AI traffic after it spawns.
Yes but not every plane hits the runway. I can see planes disappear when they are going down too early or they are “landing” outside the airport.
On the other side i have seen traffic landing very late and i had some planes landing on random places of the airport (taxi way, parking stand ect.) and rolling through buildings.
read your comment with interest - notice you mention parked aircraft with custom liveries - which I am definitely getting - never checked but I had assumed these would eventually start and become “real traffic” - is there a separate setting for controlling amount of parked aircraft?
Also by way of update finally managed to get some “real traffic” by selecting “live traffic” - is there any kind of setting to control amount of this or is it fixed depending what date you select? - presumably if you select a day in
2019 it should give you more activity than in 2020/21 (due to COVID)?
Note I still think the level of activity I was getting at heathrow for example was very limited (3 or 4 planes!)
yeah there is a setting for parked aircraft. I’m not at my PC now, so I don’t remember the exact setting, but should be easy to find in the traffic menu.
That is 100% random. The game will select random aircraft from its library (including community library if they’re enabled as AI traffic) and random liveries according to the density setting you use.
This is entirely separate from online live traffic which is mostly traffic in the air. It will park aircraft that arrive at an airport and those about to depart, but it does not control those already there when you load in. So the aprons will be 99% empty unless you add the setting for parked traffic above.
There is no way to control the amount of online live traffic. It’s controlled by what’s flying in the real world. The date is also irrelevant. It’ll always reproduce what is flying at the time you’re flying, or a few minutes earlier, to be precise. There a bit of lag.
The data used by the system is from https://flightaware.com/
Why in Microsoft flightsimulator the A-I traffic seems to disappear after landing? And when they inter the active runway they just sit there ?
They are delusional to think they can license and make ever livery out there. They should stop wasting time on this impossible task and update the ai sdk instead. Current ai and atc are terrible. It needs a complete remake
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