Might have figured it out?
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Ok...so I might have figured something out, at least for me, and maybe it might help some others who are having issues getting FStraffic to work properly.
As a side note, I normally do not use the MSFS in-game flight planner. At the very start of my flying day I'll just select my departure airport and my gate/ramp and hit fly and then I manually enter all my routes for all of my future flights for the day into the FMC or GPS or I inject them via simbrief, never going back into the world menu again during the day. I never use the in-game ATC, so I never saw a reason to set up an in-game flight plan. Anyway, I was having issues seeing any enroute traffic or destination traffic even though I was setting the destination airport within FStraffic (even after the update). This was true especially if I was doing round trip flights back and forth to the same airport between legs...I was just setting up another route manually in my GPS and then selecting the new destination within FStraffic. The return flight leg seemed to have no traffic enroute and no traffic at my return destination airport.
However, my last few completed round trip flights were each set up in MSFS world menu (as the departure and destination airport, but with no waypoints or routing...I still did my own routing manually in the GPS/FMC). I also set the destination airport in FStraffic. WOW...what a difference, I saw dozens of enroute contrails in the sky and plenty of arrival traffic, parked traffic, and even a few gate departures, and runway departures at the departure airport. The arrival airport still needs some tweaking by the Dev's because they can be pretty sparse when you arrive, but when you start a flight through the world menu at that airport, it becomes populated immediately. I did this routine for each of the legs of my flights and got very consistent results each time.
So, maybe the common issue might be some users, like me, once we were already in the sim for the day, were only just setting the destination airport in FStraffic but weren't going back into the world map to set up the new departure and destination airport for each leg of the flights, which might be a reason so many of us were getting very inconsistent results with the traffic injection?
Don't know?? but so far with a few logged round trip flights, I seem to be getting more and proper traffic injected now by setting up each flight leg from within the MSFS world menu. It's a slight immersion killer having to get out of the cockpit and back in again(at least it's at the same gate/ramp), and it's better than a total reboot of the sim, which is what I was trying before.
It's still not perfect, but it's better than it was before I did my flights this way. Hope this helps someone else!!Now, if microsobo could just fix the broken real weather and the low bandwidth server errors....I'd be having a better day!
Cheers!
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@2thfixer i got the same idea yesterday late night, and that was the plan for today. Most i fly pmdg via simbrief. So normaly i do the same procedure like you and many others. Also GSX could be a problem without extra clutter. This is my second testing for today. Not everybody has GSX pro.
At the end, i don't think it is necessary to go back to the worldmap. Put in the depature and arrival before starting a flight. i will try later and report back.Max
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Done only one flight now with the trick
LOWS-LIML(both 3th part airports)
via Simbrief
GSX Pro no extra Clutter
Ingame settings as per manual
Worldmap Depature and Arrival set (IMPORTANT)
Dest Airport set in the ingamepanelYes it works so far. More testing in the next few days.
There is one question. 100 or 150/200 Airline destiny. Depends on all aircraft(ground+air), or only enroute?
And for all those how found the ai enginesound on ground too loud. go into soundoption and lower the aisound settings. In my case i set it to 10.
In my opinion the enrout traffic is rare. Thats why i ask for airline destiny.
At the end. If this is the culprit, JF should take a look on it and re write the manual.
Max
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@hhalolo Yes, I've just been entering the departure and arrival airport only, then hit fly. Basically it's a direct to flight. When you open up your GPS/FMC, you will see your departure and arrival airports already in, but then you manually enter your flight plan from there, if you so choose. I did a flight like that from KPIT-KEWR, and KEWR was full of planes when I arrived. Hopefully that helps
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