How to add aircraft to air traffic

[Exomilav]

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[3 Wire]

Depends on the AI traffic program you are using.

With the freeware AI traffic program World of AI, aka "WOAI" you use the installer to add aircraft and airline "packages" to FSX AI air traffic. The downside to WOAI is that each plane is a seperate scenery file, ie. a "BGL" file, which can drag down framerates considerably, because your computer has to load each AI plane it displays just like it was loading airport scenery or ground textures, etc., and this is especially true on systems with marginal hardware specs, and/or at large high density scenery airports.

With the payware add on UT Live, it already comes with hundreds of AI planes and airlines pre-installed, and you can adjust the percentage of AI traffic displayed while FSX is running using hot key combinations. There are also 3rd party add on "packages" available that you can add manually, but this is a complicated and time consuming process in my experience.

[Exomilav]

Originally posted by 3 Wire:

Depends on the AI traffic program you are using.

With the freeware AI traffic program World of AI, aka "WOAI" you use the installer to add aircraft and airline "packages" to FSX AI air traffic. The downside to WOAI is that each plane is a seperate scenery file, ie. a "BGL" file, which can drag down framerates considerably, because your computer has to load each AI plane it displays just like it was loading airport scenery or ground textures, etc., and this is especially true on systems with marginal hardware specs, and/or at large high density scenery airports.

With the payware add on UT Live, it already comes with hundreds of AI planes and airlines pre-installed, and you can adjust the percentage of AI traffic displayed while FSX is running using hot key combinations. There are also 3rd party add on "packages" available that you can add manually, but this is a complicated and time consuming process in my experience.

Ok, my specs are a lot more powerful than the specs I see on the store page. I have an RX480 and an i5-7400

[3 Wire]

Originally posted by Exomilav:

Ok, my specs are a lot more powerful than the specs I see on the store page. I have an RX480 and an i5-7400

You can probably run WOAI, how much it will affect framerates will depend on how many packages you install. Only thing you can do is try it and see.

[Exomilav]

Originally posted by 3 Wire:

Originally posted by Exomilav:

Ok, my specs are a lot more powerful than the specs I see on the store page. I have an RX480 and an i5-7400

You can probably run WOAI, how much it will affect framerates will depend on how many packages you install. Only thing you can do is try it and see.

Where do I get packages?

[3 Wire]

Originally posted by Exomilav:

Where do I get packages?

Here... https://www.world-of-ai.com/

You'll need both the installer and any airline specific packages you want. I would stick to the airlines that actually fly in and out of the airports you are going to use. It doesn't do much good to have packages installed for airlines that don't service the airports you mostly use.

[Exomilav]

Originally posted by 3 Wire:

Originally posted by Exomilav:

Where do I get packages?

Here... https://www.world-of-ai.com/

You'll need both the installer and any airline specific packages you want. I would stick to the airlines that actually fly in and out of the airports you are going to use. It doesn't do much good to have packages installed for airlines that don't service the airports you mostly use.

Got some packages and it worked, thank you. :)

[3 Wire]

Originally posted by Exomilav:

Got some packages and it worked, thank you. :)

No problem.

One thing I didn't mention is that it's best to have your AI traffic slider in FSX set to 100%, at least initially, in order to display the maximum number of installed aircraft in these packages.

You can experiment with different slider settings, but in general I think you'll need at least 80-90% to get them to display in significant numbers.

[dhasdell]

Do you mean you want to add lots of AI from an add-on pack, or that you'd like to have a few flights going to and from your favourite airfields?

[[57th] AngryHatter]

Just increase the percent of traffic.
Settings page under graphics. Default is 20%. Set it to 100% and your system will crawl.