I am a big believer in AI Traffic specifically the live air traffic feature with MSFS2020. It is my favorite part of the simulator, but it is incredibly frustrating. Unfortunately it seems there are a ton of bugs with it. Some of which I’ve tested and found ways around it, but curious if anyone else has some suggestions. I like online live traffic, and online live traffic seems to work ok with arrivals. I’ve tested it to about a 5-15min delay with arrivals depending on the time of day with a 1G consistent connection. I like to use KMIA for my testing, but I’ve used others. Departures on the other hand are really inconsistent. I cannot figure out for the life of me how departures are showing up or not showing up. I started with the slider at 100 for ground traffic, but that caused the arrival traffic to disappear most of the time. I put the ground traffic down to 50, and that seemed to correct the issues for arrivals disappearing. When I say disappearing I mean the second they hit the runway it disappeared. Absolutely, no luck with departures. I get maybe 1 out of every 30 departures at the airport to show up. The 1 is about a 30-45 min delay… Does anyone have any suggestions on settings or any comments about this? I Any help would be great!
In the same boat as you…would like settings and addon suggestions.
Currently, I’m using no ground traffic. In multiplayer it looks bad to have real players parked on top of them. Multiplayer plus online live traffic works well in populated areas.
Yesterday while testing JFK looked fantastic with all the real players. However, flying around the world I’m in Bali and there is nothing. at. all. on the NA server. Completely empty airports look no better, but static aircraft seems dumb as well, besides being a huge performance hit for me.
Edit: Ok so the performance hit was actually Offline AI and not static aircraft. So I’ve put ground traffic (static) at 50%. Should reduce the double parking issue and still have aircraft at these empty airports.
I’d be pretty happy with the current state if not for liveries not applying to AI aircraft. However, there are a few addon devs working on this, so probably not long to wait for that to be fixed.