Cargo traffic- FEDEX and UPS for Traffic Global and P3Dv5
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@Ray-Fry
I use FSX SE and overall there are few aircraft at the airports in the current version. But as Rich mentioned last time, the planes don't stand at the airport for a long time all day, but they fly more, which is of course better compared to the old versions.
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Hi chaps,
I'm afraid you will find that there is less traffic in P3D v5 compared to v4. Due to a change in the airport bgl format, the files we use to boost the amount of parking spaces at default airports are no longer compatible. Relying on only default airports and their underpopulated parking spaces means a reduction in traffic levels without a decent amount of freeware/payware airports to increase parking space availability. With Traffic Global being implemented before v5 came along, this wasn't something that we could anticipate.Future traffic levels are probably dependant on how wedded people are to basing aircraft movements on real world schedules. I'm happy to add an option that would artificially increase the amount of traffic in the sim, but generating extra flight plans via some rules and some degree of randomness instead of relying on the real database would inevitably require a compromise on accuracy.
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@Rich
I use FSX SE and I also have minimal traffic at airports. For example, at Vienna Airport there is a minimum number of aircraft. It would definitely want a tool to increase traffic.
For me personally, it would not be an accurate flight plan that would be important, but increased traffic at airports.
Martin -
I use a custom TG Scenery folder which have built up over the past, all default airports that have flight plans in the database have extra parking and Cargo Parking, That how i got my traffic BGL upto 24,000kb before .6 now it is at 19,000kb and i have tools that show less traffic in the air at any one time.
The early days of TG 48,000 flight plans.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154944674@N05/47972006111/in/dateposted-public/
June this year P3Dv5.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154944674@N05/49877670172/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154944674@N05/50168735568/in/dateposted-public/ -
@Ray-Fry said in Cargo traffic- FEDEX and UPS for Traffic Global and P3Dv5:
I use a custom TG Scenery folder which have built up over the past, all default airports that have flight plans in the database have extra parking and Cargo Parking, That how i got my traffic BGL upto 24,000kb before .6 now it is at 19,000kb and i have tools that show less traffic in the air at any one time.
The early days of TG 48,000 flight plans.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154944674@N05/47972006111/in/dateposted-public/
June this year P3Dv5.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154944674@N05/49877670172/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154944674@N05/50168735568/in/dateposted-public/The number of flight plans compared to the number of flights is not directly linked. Richard posted an explanation up about this in another thread.
Yes, but that isn't the full story. In those databases, lots of those flights were the legs flown by an aircraft to a destination later in the day. For example, if an airline operated a return flight between Stansted and Glasgow that departed Stansted at 6am, then repeated it at 2pm and then again at 10pm, that would have appeared as 6 different flights. Not only that but the 6am flight would have remained sat at the gate whilst another aircraft flies the 2pm leg and then waits at the gate until 2pm the next day whilst another aircraft flies the 10pm leg.
Now the database only lists that flight once, and the same aircraft will fly back and forth during the day completing all the legs itself.
That means that yes the database is smaller, but you're getting less dormant aircraft filling up parking spaces and more legs being flown.>As to the traffic level in P3D V5, as Richard explained earlier up this thread:
I'm afraid you will find that there is less traffic in P3D v5 compared to v4. Due to a change in the airport bgl format, the files we use to boost the amount of parking spaces at default airports are no longer compatible. Relying on only default airports and their underpopulated parking spaces means a reduction in traffic levels without a decent amount of freeware/payware airports to increase parking space availability. With Traffic Global being implemented before v5 came along, this wasn't something that we could anticipate.
Hope that clarifies.
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@Derek
Is the number of flights and the number of legs generated interdependent?
Because I think the more legs there are, the higher the traffic of the planes. I don't know if I understand it well.However, it is necessary to know the approximate number of generated flights in the final form compared to the current version of the program.
In the current version, it is about 20,000 generated flights, when we know the final number of flights, we can roughly imagine what the traffic at airports will be compared to the current version.
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@martin11 said in Cargo traffic- FEDEX and UPS for Traffic Global and P3Dv5:
@Derek
Is the number of flights and the number of legs generated interdependent?
Because I think the more legs there are, the higher the traffic of the planes. I don't know if I understand it well.However, it is necessary to know the approximate number of generated flights in the final form compared to the current version of the program.
In the current version, it is about 20,000 generated flights, when we know the final number of flights, we can roughly imagine what the traffic at airports will be compared to the current version.
As per Richard's post. The number of flight plans has 'dropped' from six to one but the number of flights undertaken is the same and there are now more parking spaces available.
However, in P3DV5 the number of flights has gone down because the number of available parking spaces at default airports in the game has reduced. -
@Derek
Except the number of errors in the the main airport Traffic Global compiler show a lot of plans do not show in the sim, and bad made plans with incorrect code only three letter and FALE no longer recognised 1/3rd of the plans will not compile without errors,
And i do not rely on the TG default scenery i have a custom made scenery folder for default airports for V5 parking is available but TG will not fill it.
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@Derek
It's okay that the number of flight plans has 'dropped' from six to one.I use FSX SE. Problem, however, is that many airlines and types of aircraft are missing at airports in version 1.1.1.8. There are only a certain number of airlines and aircraft types in the current version.
In my opinion, the main flight database is built very well, only a few airlines are missing. Because if the traffic were identical to the flight database, it would be perfect.
My question is only whether the main flight database will be approximately identical to the traffic at airports after the following updates.
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@martin11
The database is what it is. It was generated on a particular day (in 2019 IIRC) and Traffic Global has aircraft and liveries that will attach themselves to the flights.So, if there is a flight from Quinboltoknam to Cambletown Int'l, using an Airbus A371-200 from TrumpBiden Airlines and the plane and livery are included then you will see the flight. If not, although the flight is in the database it won't happen as there is no plane or livery to fly it. You can choose the substitutes option but that will only provide an approximate plane or livery.
We have added more aircraft and liveries since the program was released but no immediate plans to add more. The selection is, we think, excellent but we can't cover every possible plane or carrier.
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@martin11 said in Cargo traffic- FEDEX and UPS for Traffic Global and P3Dv5:
Rich recently mentioned that he has a solution to this disadvantage.
ThanksActually, this is what he wrote:
Future traffic levels are probably dependant on how wedded people are to basing aircraft movements on real world schedules. I'm happy to add an option that would artificially increase the amount of traffic in the sim, but generating extra flight plans via some rules and some degree of randomness instead of relying on the real database would inevitably require a compromise on accuracy.
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@Derek said in Cargo traffic- FEDEX and UPS for Traffic Global and P3Dv5:
@martin11
So, if there is a flight from Quinboltoknam to Cambletown Int'l, using an Airbus A371-200 from TrumpBiden Airlines and the plane and livery are included then you will see the flight.Many flights from the flight database are set up correctly, but many large airlines do not display any flights.
(For example, TUI and many other airlines do not appear at airports, missing a380).I don't need to add extra flights, overall it's about the flight database generating flights that are correctly recorded (plane and livery are included in the program).
