Classic British Flight Sim

Hi,

The AI aircraft are following a simple approach to Runway 13, which is not the IGS approach you fly. Jim Vile found out how to make AI aircraft fly an approach, and that if you code the final waypoint of this simple approach to be offset from the end of the runway, AI aircraft will then make the turn for the runway. This is not the first approach he has so designed - look for his PHNL AFCAD file at AVSIM - that has AI aircraft making turns on final too.

Hope this helps,

Thanks for the explanation, Tom. It sounds quite straightforward when you tell it like that, but I guess it took Jim to actually work it out for us.

So - it isn't magic, then? :-( It's just as well we still have Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy.

Ian

Before one of my many re-intalls I proceeded as follows.

1. Install 9 Dragons - as per the documentation. Quite easy to follow & everything worked first time.

2. Used Traffic Tools to decompile the default AI Traffic file (after making a back up). Used Wordpad/Notepad I forget which (I think the former) to replace VHHH with VHHX (using the replace all function...oh so slow).

3. Made sure the VHHX entry was in the default traffic '!Airports' text file, and recompiled the file.

Result, ai traffic at Kai Tak.

But hang on...Tantris

4. Installed the Tantris packs & then disabled the default traffic bgl file.

5. Decompiled each Tantris traffic file in turn & note here oped the flightplan text file using MS Word & (as before) replaced all VHHH entries with VHHX, but a bit faster this time.

6. saved & recompiled (making sure again the airports file has VHHX in. Of the 4 ttraffic files (off the top of my head) I think one does not.

Result lots of pretty new ai aircraft at Kai Tak....but (not related to this scenery install) I played about too much & ended up re-installing FS again.

The Tantris ai traffic is good but i found that with some of the sceneries I was using I was getting slower frames rates, so having re-installed FS, as yet I have not put the Tantris files back in.

Bob