FS Traffic

Thanks for reporting. We have this logged on our internal bug tracker and it will be investigated ahead of a future update. In the meantime, airports can be added to FS Traffic manually via the "Adding a new airport" method listed on Pages 26-28 of the FS Traffic manual: https://downloads.justflight.com/products/JFF003616/FSTraffic_MSFS_manual.pdf Mark - Just Flight

I had read somewhere in the MSFS forums that FS Hud now (mostly) works with FS Traffic, but unfortunately that turned out to be fake news. Still the same issues: a couple planes will land, but none of the planes spawned at the airport gates (which are about half of the usual amount) ever depart. So, unusable. I asked the team over at FS hud. They say: "There is still an issue of FS Traffic side that they have to fix. FS Traffic side doesn't update departure instructions for intercepted aircrafts - it was discussed with FS Traffic dev team and this fix is on their side." FS Hud has made great strides in development, and now that you can select active runways in the newest update, I might have to ditch FS Traffic entirely, which would be too bad. Wish my favorite ATC app and my favorite traffic app would just get along. I understand that there is always plenty to take care of for JustFlight, especially with Asobo putting out that mess of a beta version of MSFS 2024, but I wonder if the years of saying "it's on the to-do list" will ever result in anything, at least for the 2020 version?

I suspect this will have been intentional, as we don't have an Emirates A350 livery, so the VMR file is pointing to the closest match, which is the 77W. I'll raise this with our development team as something to check ahead of the next update. Mark - Just Flight

There were some lighting changes in the core simulator post-Sim Update 4, and our development team will be investigating what, if any, changes are required to the FS Traffic aircraft ahead of the next update to the product. Mark - Just Flight

Thank you. No, I had not thought to try that, and it does work in 2024. A very strange and unintuitive interface! Groetjes ! P.

Thanks as well - Still really looking forward to this one.

Thanks, @Mark.

There have been various improvements to this over the course of FS Traffic's updates; however, it's sadly not something that can be removed entirely without affecting the traffic generation at the destination airport. The small freeze is caused when the FS Traffic module detects that the player is within a certain radius of the destination airport, and starts to read the schedule files that are stored locally on your PC. Once it reads those schedule files, it'll start to generate the relevant traffic. The more schedules that exist at the destination airport, the longer it'll take for the FS Traffic module to read those; therefore, the size of the freeze is directly related to how busy the destination airport is. For example, if you approach a small to medium-sized airport like Manchester (EGCC), you may only notice a small stutter, but if you approach Chicago O'Hare (KORD) at rush hour, you will get a larger stutter. Mark - Just Flight

@dosendo said in Traffic settings: I only would like to know that about how those settings must be set that they are correct to use FS Traffic. Just Flight Support can help you with that. The forum is really only meant for users to chat about products.

Found where it is now, thanks.

FS Traffic traffic is spawning OK with GSX Pro uninstalled in Sim Update 4 Beta (1.6.23.0) for me as well as GSX Pro reinstalled with characters quantity set correctly.

We're not aware of any missing sounds in FS Traffic, however, the simulator can begin to automatically cull AI aircraft sounds as a performance-saving measure in performance-heavy scenarios. Just so we can be sure that this is the case, could I kindly ask you to raise a support ticket via the following link: https://www.justflight.com/support In the ticket, if you could provide details on the aircraft you observed having no sounds (if there was a particular model), and the airport you were at (and if you were using a third-party version of that airport). Our support team will then be able to attempt to replicate that and take any necessary steps from there. Mark - Just Flight

Instructions for how to add aircraft/livery into FS Traffic are listed from page 30 onwards in the FS Traffic manual: https://downloads.justflight.com/products/JFF003616/FSTraffic_MSFS_manual.pdf However, we would strongly advise against using high-fidelity player aircraft as AI Traffic. The models used for player aircraft are not designed to be used as AI aircraft, and they will negatively impact performance. Mark - Just Flight

@otreblA said in No traffic at arrival airport: @Derek I'm not crazy or a liar. I didn't say you were. Just that we're not really the sort of business that has 'staff'. From time to time our small teams will work on all sorts of different projects. Sometimes they will impact each other - and I'm guessing this is what you must be referring to - but, most of the time, the team dedicated to one project generally don't work on others at the same time. We also have a number of freelancers. You suggested that your problem with FS Traffic may have been due to a lack of staff and I am just trying to explain that is unlikely to be the case. However, it's certainly true that if we are releasing a big title or a significant update in week 1, another similar thing will need to wait until week 2. To be honest, we wouldn't want to employ enough 'staff' to prevent this - they would spend the rest of the time twiddling their thumbs. With respect to Traffic, the last update was in July, as I mentioned above. The work on it since then has mainly been done as and when, and mostly involves looking into the various updates released for MSFS2024 to see if there is any chance of getting it to work with X-Box S. So far, no good. Getting back to your issue, if you contact Just Flight support with details of the problem they will certainly try and resolve it for you.

@Mark Yes, that's right. I suggested modifying the “Aircraft Traffic Quantity” option to ASOBO several times, but they didn't listen. I said the “Aircraft Traffic Quantity” option should separate generated aircraft and multiplayer. To use traffic add-ons, it's best to turn “Aircraft Traffic Quantity” off. However, to see multiplayer traffic, it's best to set “Aircraft Traffic Quantity” as high as possible. So I'm hoping they'll separate this for generated aircraft and multiplayer, but it seems unlikely. I asked if there might be another way. Thank you.

The Summer 2022 and Winter 22/23 databases are each taken from a specific week in those time periods. I don't recall the exact week off the top of my head, but I think it's somewhere around May 2022 and January 2023. We would like to add new databases in a future update, but we have nothing to announce at the moment. Mark - Just Flight

I really have no clue if or how it's working atm. I fly gliders almost exclusively, but wanted FS Traffic to have an imemrsive, realistic radio traffic. In the twoo weeks I now own and use FST, I've heard maybe a total of dozen or so aircraft of airlines, usuallly KLM or Lufthansa, when tuned in on busy centers like Zurich, Milano, Marseille, Vienna. All the rest are "Generic" XY, which I asome are actually other online players. I also see the occasional contrail, maybe 5 or so during a one hour flight. Never saw more than two contrails at the same time, again in areas which should realistically be very busy. For me that just seems like FST doesn't populate the skies around me at all. If that's an error on my side (even though I adjusted my settings as proposed) or a bug, or wrong expectations, I do not know.

I believe we ran into a roadblock that prevents the LOD Settings/Texture Options from being functional in MSFS 2024. These are settings that we would like to support in MSFS 2024, and we'll take another look at them with post-SU3 MSFS 2024 ahead of the next FS Traffic update. Mark - Just Flight

You don't need to do anything special. Simply use the Just Flight installer and the add-on will be installed in your Community folder. If you have the Community folder defined on drive D, it will be installed there.