No Ryanair traffic at Stansted?

Hi! I just picked up UK2000 Stansted scenery since I thought it would be a great starting-point for flying to continental Europe with Ryanair but to my big surprise and disappointment, there is no Ryanair ai traffic there at all with Traffic 360. I see a lot of Easyjet, Buzz and others but not a single Ryanair flight. I have the latest Traffic 360 version installed and it hasn't been modified in any way. Does anybody know how I can get Ryanair traffic working?

Cheers/Andreas

I have Traffic X, not Traffic 360. "Ryanair" is in Traffic X under the name "Ryanair (RYR)". I would thus assume Ryanair should be a simple one to find in the Traffic 360 Traffic Control Centre, if it's there.

If you can find Ryanair in your Traffic 360 Traffic Control Centre, then you can look at the flight plan schedules therein to find out which airports the planes fly to/from, and at what times.

If, after checking the schedules in the Traffic 360 Traffic Control Centre, you determine that you need to add (more) Ryanair planes to these airports, then you can do so. Don't forget that if you do add/edit flight plans, you must COMPILE when you are finished so that your new/modified flights appear in the sim.

I have a=Ryanair in 360 too....

Andreas,

If others DO have Ryanair traffic at Stansted, as they are confirming, then your issue may be something to do the UK2000 Stansted scenery that you have recently installed.

Disable that in your FSX scenery library, or, uninstall it ...

Then, after doing that, close and re-run FSX with that still disabled/uninstalled to see if you now have Ryanair traffic at Stansted.

Andreas wrote: Wow! Just checked Dublin airport, not a single Ryanair plane! This is really poor. It's like one of the biggest airlines in Europe and it's not even representing two of it's biggest hubs with Traffic 360. Can this be fixed somehow or am I just missing something?

Like the other guys, I suspect something is wrong with your Traffic 360 files.
Like Freddy, I only have Traffic X but as far as I know it is very similar to Traffic 360. If you go into the TCC (Traffic Control Centre) of Traffic 360 and click on "Flight Plans", and, under 'Airline/Carrier' scroll down the list to see if you have an entry "Ryanair,RYR,Ireland". If not then your installation has gone wrong, whereas, if it is there, then have you used the "Traffic Movements" button which is where you go to create a new compiled version of the flight plans, which is what FSX uses to show AI? If so, you may have created a newly compiled file but accidentally only compiled a limited number of the available schedule lists.
If the "Ryanair,RYR,Ireland" file shows in the listings then you could, under "Traffic Movements", just compile this one on its own, to create a .bgl just for Ryanair. This will then allow FSX to display these AI.

If you are a relative newcomer to Traffic 360 and find the Manual less than helpful then you will be joining a long queue of users, dating back to Traffic X, who have had difficulties trying to work out how to use the various facilities offered by Traffic X / 360.

Fixed it! I did a re-install but it didn't help so I turned up the VFR traffic (usually I have it off) and violá! There were the Ryanair planes. It's kind of weird that you have to have the VFR slider turned up to see tubeliners, as long as it works I guess. Thank you all for your help!

freddy wrote: Interesting. VFR. I agree that's kind of weird having to set the VFR slider up to see those aircraft. But, as you say, as long as it works ...

Yes, but I wonder if any other Traffic 360 users are getting the same situation?

Jim, it sounds as if you did not have any problems with Ryanair AI at Stansted, etc. If you reduce your VFR traffic in FSX to 0%, do your Ryanair AI disappear? (I cannot do this test as I am still only a Traffic X user but am still interested in the workings of Traffic 360.)

Jim wrote: Hi Ray. Reducing the slider by half I only had one Ryanair visible,back to 100% plenty. Jim.

Strangely interesting! Sorry to keep asking but, when a Ryanair plane is preparing to leave a parking spot, does it use a Ryanair callsign e.g. "Ryanair 5135" or similar, or does it use the aircraft registration?

Ray, I see where you are going with this. I actually thought along the same lines, but thought it best to just leave it all alone as it was working now. But, by you doing the follow up, you have re-sparked my interest.

In the Traffic X forum, in the Circuits Until topic, I mentioned a post by Jim Vile that I had seen on another forum. (Jim has a well-earned reputation as being an expert in this kind of stuff) ...

Copied below are Jim's words:

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Just for clarification the atc_airline= is not just for an ATC airline call sign. The line entry atc_airline= places that type of plane in the FSX Airline slider. Remove that line and the plane will now be part of the GA slider. atc_airline= can be blank; it does not require a name.

atc_id=N737T
atc_airline=
atc_flight_number=

For the example above, ATC will call the plane by the tail number N737T. But if we add a flight_number ATC uses that. Add the airline name, and ATC will use that instead (if available in the FSX lists) to call the name. Its all based on a building system of what lines exist and then what is placed in those lines.

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Jim's post was talking about how to get ATC to say certain things ... but in relation to our discussion here it would be a good idea to check the Ryanair's aircraft.cfg files and see if they have the atc_airline entry. They DO have that entry in Traffic X, and therefore I would suggest they will also have it in Traffic 360 ... but it is worth checking all the same ...

Hi just seen this post and had the same problem with Ryanair, amongst others like some military etc, that they only load if the GA slider is used. Also ATC calling them by their tail number and just calling them Boeing as type of aircraft i.e. not 737-200

Had a look at the aircraft.cfg file and for Ryanair there are a few liveries and have the lines:-

atc_airline=RYANAIR COMPANY LIVERY, atc_airline=RYANAIR HERTZ LIVERY, atc_airline=RYANAIR KILKENNY LIVERY etc

So I take it we can just take out the livery name from the relevant line and just keep it as atc_airline=RYANAIR ?