How do I create AI Traffic?

[Goose]

Hey Guys,
I have been playing around with creating an airport with the program posted on here somewhere the other day (ade 1.40), i have made an airport (i use that in the loosest terms, cos its a pretty crude example of an airport) but now i want to get some flights going into it, looking to bring in mostly international flights but also some GA but i have no idea how to do this! is there a program that makes it simple or does it require a degree in programming? any help would be awesome! Cheers

[Ian Warren]

Thats a question goose , i must also ask for adding some aircraft carriers operating around the NZ coast , recommendations for best program to use ?

[toprob]

QUOTE (Goose @ May 3 2009, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

is there a program that makes it simple or does it require a degree in programming?

Somewhere in the middle. Creating flightplans for FSX is simple enough once you understand the concept, but quite tedious and by no means fun.

You can in fact use the FSX SDK to do this, and doing it this way will give you good reliable AI, but it does take some getting to grips with. This is probably the trickiest way for a beginner, as you'll need to do a lot of reading, typing and debugging. However if you want to give it a go,there is a nice tutorial here.

There are a few GUI-style tools for FS2004, but hardly any for FSX. You could try AI Flight Planner, there is a nice helpful sub-forum at the FSDeveloper site. This creates flightplans for both FS2004 and FSX.

A lot of people do use the FS2004 tools, though, and then convert the resulting traffic files for use in FSX.

You can in fact use FS2004 flightplans in FSX, but they will deactivate any FSX flightplans, so you'll lose the default AI, and any FSX-specific flightplans which you may have installed. So it makes more sense to user a conversion tool.

TTools is a popular flightplan tool -- it is pretty much the standard tool for FS2004, even though it is not an actual MS tool. You can download TTools here.

The conversion tool I use is AIFPC, but I don't have a download link at the moment -- a quick google should find it.

[Goose]

Cheers toprob,
i have started working my way thru AI Flight Planner but once i have made the flight plan it saves as a text doc, how do i then put it into fsx?

[toprob]

You'd use AIFPC.

[Goose]

QUOTE (toprob @ May 3 2009, 05:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You'd use AIFPC.

oh ok, will try that and see how i go, cheers

[Goose]

QUOTE (Goose @ May 3 2009, 05:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

oh ok, will try that and see how i go, cheers

well im not having the best of luck, making the flight plans but when i go there to see the planes arrive or depart they dont show up. Its a ghost airport! Does anyone know of a visual tutorial for ai flight planner??

this is what one of them looks like, but it never arrives

[toprob]

First you should try to get AI arriving at an airport which already receives default AI -- that would at least show whether the problem ia with your flightplan or your airport.

[Goose]

QUOTE (toprob @ May 3 2009, 08:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

First you should try to get AI arriving at an airport which already receives default AI -- that would at least show whether the problem ia with your flightplan or your airport.

Well just tried bringing one into tg, to no avail so must be my flight plan!