I generally like to fly GA aircraft out of small to medium sized airfields. However configuring MSFS to add some AI aircraft to give a bit of life to the sim doesn’t have the expected effect. I have Offline AI Traffic set to 75% which is as much as my PC can manage without reducing my framerate to about 20fps, but what I see in game isn’t usually other planes flying around and moving about the airfield.
Instead on the airfield itself what I usually see is that of the half dozen or so planes at the airifield one of them wil have its engine running and a ground handler nearby as if it is preparing to depart, however it will usually be canted over 90 degrees with its wing embedded in the ground, or inverted on its roof and slowly spinning around.
I’ll occasionally hear ATC give landing clearance to another aircraft, and if I wait long enough I’ll see a set of mavigation lights appear on final approach, but with no plane model attached. The lights will then slowly descend down to the runway and disappear the moment they hit the runway.
In a week or so of having AI Offline Traffic enabled I have once seen a plane actually land and then taxi to a parking spot.
So my question is, am I missing a configuration setting that might have screwed up my AI Offline Traffic, or is it really still this broken after two and a half years?
If it is just this broken are there any decent addons that create anything like realistic GA traffic? I’ve looked around but most of the addons seem to be heavily airline focused.