No other aircraft present

[BlackWolf]

I am the only aircraft at any airport. Can someone help??

[RyanGA]

Where is your traffic slider at?

[BlackWolf]

currently slider at 60%, but even at 100% no aircraft at the gates. I have the boxed version also installed and other aircraft are there.

[mikeytwc]

verified integrity of files?
make sure AV disabled and UAC is off
in steam, make sure you are running as admin
put your mouse on library and select games
right click microsoft flight simulator steam edition on upper left of screen(its blue)
click properties from the dropdown
click local files tab at top of properties dialog
check current build id(should be 490932)
click VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE
this will check local install and replace corrupt/missing files
hope that is of help

[BlackWolf]

Mickey: Thanks a million for your help. I now have aircraft. Of course I had to go through the build process.16 Files failed to validate.

I also found the culprit it was Taffic X and Traffic 360. When I installed each program it noted that the installation occurred. However, when I went to the library, there was no entry for Traffic X and Traffic 360, which there is when the products are installed into the boxed version. What I did to cause the problem was to manually add the "airport facilities" to the fsx library. After I performed this operation I get no other aircraft at the gates.

Question is Traffic X and Traffic 360 compatible with the steam version? If it is compatible should I uninstall the boxed version?

Thanks again.

BW

[mikeytwc]

there is a freeware ai traffic program which i am told is better called ICE-AI, havent tried it yet, but you may want to look at that...or perhaps someone else who has had good experience with traffic 360 and traffic x might be able to help

[Morag]

Originally posted by BlackWolf:

Question is Traffic X and Traffic 360 compatible with the steam version? If it is compatible should I uninstall the boxed version?

It's not really clear if you've fixed your problem or just hidden it. I've not used TrafficX for a while, it was 'ok', never tried Traffic360 but I have used Just Flight support and they've always been really helpful

http://www.justflight.com/support

[RyanGA]

I downloaded freeware IceAI and never looked back. It's a treat to be at an airport and see one of the special one unique plane paint jobs various airlines did to one of their planes. The Alaskan airlines Disney plane for example looks amazing and know I'll probably never see it again in my travels.

[Morag]

There's actually a surprising amount of both freeware and payware traffic options out there, off the top of my head;

Traffic360
MyTraffic (Pro, Lite and an Aerosoft2013 version)
VoxATC also manages traffic
Ultimate Traffic 2
also there are civ and military add on packs of traffic from JustFlight which add some traffic and don't require the 360 base package to use

and then there's free options from World of AI, IceAI and I'm sure many others.

You'll see threads where people argue which is the 'best' - and the bottom line is this;

FSX is a flight sim, not an air traffic sim so any attempts to get it to be a traffic sim involve some sort of compromise or fudge to make it work. All of these traffic options work slightly differently and none of them is perfect but they are all pretty good.

You really need to know what you want from a traffic add on so you can find the best option for you. You can even combine them, so you can have UT2 adding in big jets while MyTraffic handles GA. Or you can have VoxATC manage all your installed Traffic360 planes.

But if you're not careful you can end up with no traffic at all or a horrific chug fest so my advice is to do some googling before you buy or install anything.

[jcj78]

Originally posted by Morag MacRae:

But if you're not careful you can end up with no traffic at all or a horrific chug fest so my advice is to do some googling before you buy or install anything.

The first time i installed 360 I had so much traffic that AI planes would dissappear on the taxiway in line to takeoff because they'd time out before they got to the threshold.

[yellowjacket]

Originally posted by mikeytwc:

there is a freeware ai traffic program which i am told is better called ICE-AI, havent tried it yet, but you may want to look at that...or perhaps someone else who has had good experience with traffic 360 and traffic x might be able to help

ICE AI uses freeware AI repaints, models and flightplans downloaded from places like flightsim.com / avsim.com and included in their installer without the permission of the original Designers and Developers.

ICE AI violate the copyrights of the freeware developers.

They did not create any of the AI Flightplans or plane repaints. They went to web sites and downloaded the work done by other developers and now bundled it using their name and saying it's their own work.

They have also renamed many of the files to hide the true identity of the FP's, AI Plane models and the aircraft FD's.

There are many post on ICE AI like the one I link here

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/432570-ice-ai-traffic-group/