I think you’re right. I was at EGHI expecting a couple of arrivals and departures at the time. I was there but didn’t see anything. EGHI only has a few small airlines serving it so I wonder if the models aren’t in the database yet? I can’t find a way to check.
Edit: I’ve just found my answer under "Errordc in the AI Manager. There are no models for the airlines serving EGHI, hence no aircraft.
Some airports or airlines don’t spawn many planes. For example Singapore airlines only spawns a350’s. OMDB also has very few planes even if I set AIGTC to 100 traffic.
But in some like RPLL and EGLL, there are tons of planes
I already downloaded 100 flight plans including all major airlines
Depends on time of year I suppose, LEPA, LEIB are summer holiday airports so you get lots of traffic IRL in the summer,but as my traffic density is 100 it’s like the other poster said in reply to my question it just fills up empty gates with random airlines that never fly there
I have tons of easyJet , eurowings, air europa but also getting delta, united,JetBlue etc at LEPA
Must be my airport traffic density set at 100 filling those gates with US carriers instead of jet2, TUI etc that I have downloaded
On a different note saw a A380 emirates take off from EGCC yesterday, that was epic, so I am thrilled with this add on , plus love the map as I could track its flight route as it was climbing out on its way to Oman amazing
Oh so it depends on actual traffic volume in real life? For example if Singapore airlines is flying very few planes this month due to covid, then AIGTC won’t inject a lot of their planes?
Don’t quote me on this but all aircraft have flight plans which correspond to what time, where they fly to so as far as someone told me in this thread
Hence my question of having wrong aircraft at airports that IRL they would never visit as it’s not on their schedule eg my spirit wings at LEPA a holiday island in the Mediterranean so yeah that’s my understanding
Not sure about the COVID question bu could be based on what I was told
I can confirm that covid has affected the sim. I noticed that Heathrow and Gatwick were pretty much empty and then virtually as soon the UK restrictions were lifted the sim started to fill up with ai again.
fun, flightplans are based on seasons^^ so if you have a summer 19 flightplan you will always see preCOVID flights. Stuff since Su20 will be “covid”-included…
Pilot2ATC which I also use, and like BTW doesnt talk to A/I from what I get, but on clearance PF3 was giving altittude departures. I only hear pilot2atc give you instructions. But on the ground PF3 was giving them instruuctions like while taxiing telling then to hold, if another plane was on their taxi route.
I maybe wrong not given pot2atc ago yet, still a nice alternative to stock ATC. Also there is the fantastic Vatsim.