Multiple AI Planes
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Topic: Multiple AI Planes
Posted By: MrBB
Subject: Multiple AI Planes
Date Posted: 02 May 2016 at 8:10pm
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Anyone know why there can be two ai planes in the same area at the same time. I have seen something on it, but have been unable to find what causes this problem. A little help would sure go a long way. Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions, Mr.BB ------------- MrBB |
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Posted By: RayM
Date Posted: 02 May 2016 at 10:51pm
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A bit more information regarding your 'problem' would be helpful. ------------- A long time FSXA and Traffic X user |
Posted By: MrBB
Date Posted: 03 May 2016 at 12:29am
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Ray, In FSX during a flight I have noticed two AI's flying next to one another. It happens quite frequently and does not usually occur to one particular airline or type of aircraft. It looks like the two aircraft are sharing the same air route. ATC also will call instructions to each aircraft as a separate aircraft back to back, thus two different ATC calls for the exact same thing, altitude, direction change, and etc. I hope this better explains my problem, Mr.BB ------------- MrBB |
Posted By: freddy
Date Posted: 03 May 2016 at 3:00am
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You are 100% correct ... the two aircraft are likely to be sharing the same air route, usually departing FROM the same airport and both going TO the same arrival airport. Often, they are scheduled to depart at the exact same time (or near enough to). Most times this will be two different airlines, meaning that their schedules just happen to match by pure coincidence. This can also happen if there is an airport in the middle between two other airports, in a straight line, and a plane that's already in the air from the first airport is "intercepted" by a plane that has taken off from the middle airport and both just happen to be going to the same destination airport. It's just a quirky fate of the scheduling that causes this one. Another possible cause of this is when you have TWO or more AI .bgl files loading. If both of these AI .bgls are due to your editing the AI schedules in the Traffic Controlcentre, and then innocently saving and compiling your work with different filenames ... then you will end up with the SAME SCHEDULES, compiled in to TWO (or more) .bgl files ... EACH of which will load in to the sim. This would therefore, create DUPLICATED AI aircraft. The way to fix this is to use appropriate tools to locate details of one of the AI aircraft and then adjust its schedules (or, if you choose, delete it). The FSX SDK Traffic Explorer provides a great list of all the AI aircraft both on the ground, and flying, and can give you details about the airline, flight number, scheduled times, and departure and arrival airports. This makes it very easy to find the aircraft in the Traffic X or Traffic 360 schedules and do your edits (or deletions) accordingly. Remember, any time you edit/adjust schedules, or do deletions, you must recompile the AI .bgl file (whilst noting paragraph 3 above, of course). Or, if your issue is occurring because you happen to have two (or more) AI .bgl files containing the same schedules, simply remove one (or more) of them out of the folder. That said, if you do feel you need to make and save more than one AI .bgl file to suit your style of editing requirements, then you just need to take extreme care to ensure that each of your files does not contain the same flight schedules as any of the others. |
Posted By: RayM
Date Posted: 03 May 2016 at 2:35pm
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As I see it, the 'problem' can be the result of various situations. Are the 'pairs' of aircraft two different aircraft or two instances of the 'same' aircraft/flight? If the former, then Freddy's explanation of co-incidence will be correct (see my final comment below) but if the latter, then the problem is harder to sort out. The FSX SDK Traffic Explorer can be used to assist. If you identify the two aircraft (reg no./flt no./type etc) then go into Traffic Explorer, right-click in the column-headings row and make sure that "File Path" is selected. You now see the name of the BGL file that contains each particular flight that is showing in Traffic Explorer. Are the 2 aircraft in the same BGL? Is this BGL the original file "ai-traffic.bgl" (102,328Kb / 17.03.2013) that was installed with Traffic 360? If so, this will be a problem introduced by JF. If there are 2 BGL's, then you will have created one or more BGL's which may be the cause of duplicated aircraft. As I am not an actual user of Traffic 360 it may not be possible to pin down where this sort of problem can occur but I offer a possible suggestion. Note that, in T360, when you COMPILE a new AI BGL file, you are offered a selection of headings as follows - Summer Schedule 2007 Summer Schedule 2011 Winter Schedule 2011 Spring Schedule 2012 Summer Schedule 2012 Winter Schedule 2013 Military Flights 2012 VFR Traffic User Schedule Each of the first 6 contain various amounts of airline schedules - what I don't know is whether any of them contain any flights that are also listed in any of the others. If they do I can see a problem coming. I believe the default AI BGL results from 2 of the airline schedules plus the last 3 schedules - I have 'lost' my records on this so I cannot remember which 2 airline files were used. As a Traffic X user for a long time, I rarely see this phenomenon except when I have forgotten to delete an earlier AI BGL file after creating a new one. ------------- A long time FSXA and Traffic X user |
Posted By: MrBB
Date Posted: 03 May 2016 at 5:50pm
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Ray, Freddy, I believe I have found my problem, in the addon scenery section I found two addon pluspax X civil and military programs occupying the first and second position. Lord knows how this happened, but it seems to be okay for now. Again thanks for your help. Mr.BB ------------- MrBB |
Posted By: freddy
Date Posted: 04 May 2016 at 3:47am
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We provide some feedback, scenarios and clues. You investigate. You find the answer. Good stuff!  |