Creating Flight Plans

Dougal,

Well, I'm obviously missing something - hopefully, a simple something.

I tried with just one 'cub' from EGSC to EGSS and back.  If I restart TrafficX and look in the flightplan list, under VFR UK, it shows in the list, but the aircraft just never appears at the field

A good thought.  The tutorial does lack one extremely important point ... it does NOT mention that after adding/editing flight plans one needs to COMPILE them.

2) At the end of the tutorial, I would suggest explaining that the added/edited flight plans do need to be compiled so that they can be seen in Flight Simulator. Some readers may be under the incorrect impression that if they merely add/edit flight plans and save them as per the tutorial's explanations, their flight plans will now simply appear in Flight Simulator. Whilst I do realise that this tutorial is only about Flight Plan adding/editing, I think it could be a good idea to mention that the flight plans do need to be compiled and that this topic will be covered in detail later in a forthcoming tutorial. Just something brief.

 

"Good suggestion, I was considering mentioning it. I intend to update the tutorial once I have completed the detailed tutorial on how to compile etc, so that the two 'link up'."

Ok guys, next question....

I don't understand the 'Traffic Generator' page on the TCC.  The slider doesn't 'seem' to anything.  How ever many ticks I put in however many boxes, they later disappear!

Thanks Freddy

Ahhhhggg!  I'm going nuts here.  So far, i seem to have managed ONCE to make my aircraft show.

Can you please WALK me through a recomile?

Thank you very much.

Can you tell me;  will a small aircraft use a larger paking space, or do I have to change the parking sizes?

Thanks

Here'e what the Traffic X "Pilot's Notes" manual has to say:

"FSX allows you to assign certain gates to certain airlines and vice versa. We have modified 50 international airports with gate assignments that are as accurate as possible. However, in the event an airport get overloaded with traffic it will assign gates according to free spaces; so newly arriving aircraft might park in any free parking space."

I did a modification to Edwards (KEDW) using Airport Design Editor. I changed all the parking spaces to large military combat ramps. I found that although this did not eliminate the possibility of small GA aircraft using the large parking spaces, it did lessen the chance if there were a sufficient number of large aircraft scheduled to arrive and depart from the airport. In the absense of sufficient scheduled flights of large aircraft into Edwards, the small GA aircraft ate up the spaces...even when there were plenty of open large parking spaces for large aircraft and even when all of the parking spaces at the airport were large ramps. (The situation would have been different if all the large parking spaces were gates. See below).

If you want to control traffic into a small GA airport and eliminate having large aircraft arrive and depart, and if there are large parking spaces at the airport, then there are three options:

1. Edit the airport with an AFCAD program to eliminate the large parking spaces.

2. Search in TCC for the flight plans of any large aircraft that are using the airport, and delete those flight plans.

3. Schedule so many small GA aircraft to stop over at the airport for hours that there is little room for anything but the small GA aircraft.

Remember that GA aircraft are going to occupy ramp spaces. Airports with gates are not going to see Cessnas parking at gates (unless more-appropriate GA parking spaces are unavailable). It's not, therefore, just a matter of parking space size; it is also a matter of type.

Hey, freddy. Your reply was more than sufficient. I just happened to be writing this reply at the same time you were writing yours.

Soaranden wrote: Hey, freddy. Your reply was more than sufficient. I just happened to be writing this reply at the same time you were writing yours.