AI Traffic vs FSX?

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I’ve been playing FSX lately… I noticed something “missing” with MSFS2020 but maybe it’s my settings.

Playing FSX… I taxi up to the runway, and was told to hold short airbus on final by FSX ATC. So I waited, and then comes along an AI airbus that lands right in front of me. Very cool, and immersive. They were told to pull off, and then I was cleared to line up on the runway.

My question does this occur is MSFS2020? In all my hours I’ve never seen this… I have the AI planes turned up but they just seem to be in the air. Is this an ATC limitation currently?

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I was approaching an airport the other day, Seoul I think, There was an airbus on final. I followed him in. On short final he went around. Climbed to about 1000 ft agl and proceeded to fly thru a mountain pop out into the next valley and continue his 2 mile circuit thru another mountain and out over the bay before turning final and repeating the same circuit. Rinse and repeat. Artificial “Intelligence”, I think not.

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I’ve had this exact thing happen multiple times in MSFS. I’m using the ‘live traffic’ setting.

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Nope. I was flying a session the other night on Live Time, and was on approach. Tower Freq tells a heavy, hold short Cessna Skyhawk on short final - that was me. I touch down, and haven’t even made it to the taxiway and I hear tower clear the heavy so I rev up and get off the active. As I’m contacting ground for parking, I hear the enormous rumble behind me and switch to external - there he goes, just rotated about at the same point as the taxiway.

FSX has more traffic, but today’s processors, memory and GPU can easily handle all of it at 100 percent. I sat at Ft. Lauderdale Exec for seven minutes on the hold short, three inbounds came in, and a Piper starting at me at the other side of the hold line, all of us waiting to take the active.

Turning on that much AI in this MSFS will bring a decent rig to it’s knees today.

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I’ll have to try Live traffic again… I turned it off as I got tired of hearing ATC yell at all the traffic to change altitude… I have AI traffic on currently.