When using a flight simulation product, you always want to get the most realistic possible response. After all, the majority of users will be using as either light training for their piloting career, or as a chance to get as close to the real thing as possible. Therefore, it’s vital to make sure that you have the right kind of realism around you at all times – of course, as any flight simulation fan will know, the realism that you experience goes far beyond just the aircraft that you are flying. The type of aircraft is always important, but the world itself has to feel realistic. This is where the various community mods that add in AI traffic are so important. Whilst there is some traffic in FSX, any “real world” aircraft that you can use or fly aren’t actually included in the flight simulator.

This is something the, presumably due to licensing, means that the atmosphere of the game can be hurt quite significantly as you won’t be able to see your favorite aircraft flying around in the skies with you. Thankfully, an abundance of mods exist that you can get the most out of if you decide to give them a shot.

AI In FSX The AI in FSX is very impressive normally, but some people aren’t too keen on the original AI in FSX. If you are sick of this AI and want to replace it with something better, then this is well worth reading about – the mods available to you will give you a lot more benefits than you might imagine. However, some people would like to be able to remove the default traffic as well, in preparation for adding in their custom traffic instead.

If you want to do this then the process is actually very simple – you only need to follow a rather easy set of instructions which are listed below. This will make it easier than ever to make the FSX experience that you get as close to the real thing as possible, making sure that you can feel nice and comfortable as you use your own copy of FSX.

To get rid of the default traffic in FSX, all you need to do; • Head to the folder that you originally installed FSX to – if you are using the, then it will come under the steamapps/common folder in the directory that you installed Steam to • Next, you need to find a file that is found within the Scenery/World Scenery folder • The file is known as AItraffic.BGL, and all you need to do is rename this file to something else • This will totally remove the traffic from your FSX system – if you suffer from performance, this is useful Why Do I Need AI Traffic? The reasons for actually using AI traffic vary quite dramatically depending on your own needs or experiences – here are just some of the reasons why you might want to add in AI traffic to your FSX installation, though; • It provides you with a greater challenge – if you are trying to become the best pilot that you can be then it’s vital to have some kind of obstacle to deal with. Instead of just flying around in a totally blank sky, you want to be able to make sure that you are going to be able to learn from what you’re doing • Because you can crash into AI traffic as well, it adds a nice little extra challenge to the flight – can you make sure that you are dealing with every aspect of the flight in the way that you are supposed to? This will sharpen your concentration and your confidence • Additionally, most AI mods allow you to interact with the other aircraft in the skies just as you would be in the real world. Using Traffic 360 Installation for Traffic 360, though, is just as easy as it is to use the other option available to you, World of AI.

It installs the file once it’s finished downloading the hefty file size; you just need to run the installer and answer the questions that you will be asked by the installer. This will then more or less deal with everything and leave you with an easy to use AI traffic mod that is very simple to adjust and use to your own needs whenever you are ready to take things to the next stage with flight simulation. Using traffic 360 in-game depends on how you want to do it; there are many in-game customization features that you can use to balance out the overall performance. If you find frame rates dipping and the overall quality of the performance coming down you need to make an active change. The first thing that you need to do, then is to run the installer and get it working.

Once it’s installed you only need to open up FSX and you can deal with anything from there – Traffic 360 also requires you to have Traffic X installed. You can download this from HERE and it will give you all the assistance you need in getting the most comprehensive performance from your flight simulator if you need the maximum challenge that you can get.

Best FSX AI traffic freeware? Pc Registry Mechanic Patch Code Sc. So I figured good riddance. AI traffic use flight plan files to tell FSX what aircraft are supposed to be at what airports.

Whatever you need, though, you’ll find that using Traffic 360 can be the ultimate traffic upgrade that you would possibly need to make sure that you get what’s required. What To Go For It all really does just come down to a personal choice – do you feel like you have enough precision in terms of the overall flight simulation experience with just the freeware edition? Or do you feel like, even with that, it’s still a little bit below what you would have been hoping for? Whatever you decide to go with, we recommend trying out World of AI first since it’s free.

This will let you see the jump in quality and then you can decide if you need the extra authenticity and volume that the brilliant Traffic 360 brings to the table. Whatever you decide to do, though, you’ll find that changing to something new can be a massive improvement over the original format that you would have become accustomed to. Whilst the old FSX AI is decent, the lack of real-world aircraft means that the skies can feel a tad hollow; you feel like you are the lone wolf in a sea of normal aircraft. If you need realism to make sure things are as enjoyable as they could be then you just need to think about making serious changes. Either of these options can be the right one for you – you just need to decide if you want to make an extra investment or if what the still impressive World of AI can give you is going to be enough to keep you learning, improving and overall satisfied with the performance of your flight simulator. I'd love to hear your comments regarding your experiences with AI traffic and any addons you use to enable it.

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Much as Harald has said, just because WoAI is closing up shop doesn't mean you can't achieve the same result, albeit with a bit of extra work. The models are still available, the paints are still available, the flightplans are available, and the tools to put it all together are still there.

It's the convenience that's going to be missing, is all. There's a lot more to AI than just the big iron anyways - WoAI doesn't really address the GA side of things as well as what you can do yourself, and once you start doing it yourself, you find it's really satisfying to have that level of control over it. Of course, if any of it was quick and easy, there would be no payware! Jim, Unless things have changed, in their closing announcement on their website the developers say all files will be removed from AVSIM and flightsim.com. Rbirtel, I would go to WoAI, download all the airline and GA files you want to have, download their installer tool, then install those airline packages onto your sim. The nice thing about doing that is the WoAI installer will install all the aircraft models and textures in a matter of seconds.

If you ever want up to update flight plans for ult AI, you can download those from the AVSIM library then use the aircraft textures downloaded from WoAI. I also recommend downloading the AI Flight Planner 2 utility, which let's you modify flight plans, add textures to your aircraft.txt file, etc. It's like TTools on steroids.

Then, just update your AI flight plans airline by airline. For the most part, most people don't really pay attention to whether the AI aircraft are flying current schedules or not.

So, if you want to keep it simple just use the original WoAI and don't change anything. Hi, I'd prefer to build my own AI traffic from available flightplans (AIG, United Traffic Team.) and repaints. Although not as sophisticated as WoAI, I think that is quite the same WoAI did. Of course you need a certain amount of time to build up your traffic but it has the advantage that you can keep your system in naming files, folder structures, internal structures of aircraft.cfg and TTools source files.

Harald I prefer this too. It's slightly more time consuming but it's definitely more rewarding when you see your work come to 'life' in the simulator.

I agree with the previous comments about building your own AI traffic system using the excellent AIG flight schedules etc, BUT I alert you to the fact that if you are using FSX with the DX10 preview activated, then many of the older WoAI aircraft models will appear pure white at your airports. DX10, of course requiring a compatible video card, provides greatly improved visuals and is the way of the future for FSX, but it does introduce new issues about which you can google on the Net. One of which is aircraft textures where in many cases the texture has to be changed from DXT3 to DXT1. Most of theAI FruitStand aircraft are compatible, but many of the AIA are not. The plus side of this change is far less memory impact on your system which means improved framerates and operation at large airports. The effort to build your own system is repaid in spades by having total control on flightplans and updating aircraft to the best models available.