AI Traffic not producing contrails

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
Despite meeting the conditions of contrails forming, AI aircraft are not creating contrails. User aircraft are, yet at the same altitude AI aircraft are not.

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:
AI traffic.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Community folder is empty.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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  1. Climb to a cruise level e.g. 360
  2. Observe absolutely ZERO contrails in the sky, ever, from any AI traffic.

YOUR SETTINGS

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What peripherals are you using, if relevant: N/A

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
DX12

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
2080

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
N/A

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• In FS2024 with AI traffic flying at more than 30,000ft, when we look at them from the ground (or any height) we don’t see the contrails that we would see in FS2020.

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Come on guys, only 16 votes? :frowning:
This is a regression, in MSFS they worked very well.
A flight simulator without contrails…

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I guess this is in free flight ? Because I play career and there’s no AI traffic in career at all… let alone contrails.
No airplanes/heli’s and no ships absolutely nothing, there are only airplanes/heli’s parked at airfield but that’s it.

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I think part of the reason for this lack of contrails not getting picked up sooner is that injected AI traffic (FSLTL etc.) in free flight hasn’t been working at all – until the most recent sim patch last week.
As for BATC – that hardly produces any en-route traffic at all, it seems. But even when it does, you don’t see any long contrails.
Meanwhile, Asobo’s own default AI & offline traffic option either doesn’t work, or it presents totally random liveries & aircraft types at this point – so we don’t use it.
But hopefully, as traffic comes to life in FS2024, more people will then focus on the related realism / immersion features – like contrails!

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You can enable AI traffic in career mode. I saw that somewhere in the settings but did not try if it worked. It is off by default.

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It is enabled, but there is no traffic at all also ships air-traffic etc. on High or Ultra or any setting does not matter.
The bug might even be related to this option as this option is also bugged it keeps disabling itself.
I can hear ATC talk to traffic but there’s not a airplane heli or boats/ship to be seen on the whole planet.

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Bug still present after yesterday’s patch

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Same thing here. When clicking on the Flight Planner in flight, in map mode there can be all kinds of AI or User aircraft very close to my plane, but when I use the external camera view and look all around me, high and low and 360 degrees, there’s not a single aircraft to be seen. Especially at night! You’d think we should be able see the distant strobes, port and starboard lights, etc., but I can’t recall EVER seeing 1 other aircraft in the sky with me.