I posted about this already, but on playing with it I think it’s thread-worthy.
https://www.alpha-india.net/2021/11/09/aig-ai-manager-version-1-1-public-beta/
This is a free add-on to inject real-world aircraft routes, flight plans, models and liveries into MSFS. You can use it with the sim’s Real Life traffic, where it’ll model/livery match for you or turn off the sim’s traffic all together and let this do AI traffic for you, based off of real world flight plans.
Setting it up is fiddly, and will involve getting a AVSIM library account and an AIG forum account. They do this as the approach for this add-in is not to include all the models and liveries, but be an automated way to access them, and give credit to each individual author.
Here’s the set-up steps and video:
Holla in this topic if it all goes wrong. I found the set-up tricky, but one tip is that once you change or make a setting then just restart the app - it doesn’t really pick up changes on the fly.
The add-on is split between two apps, the AI Manager, where you download the models, liveries and real-life flight plans that you want offline and the AI Traffic Manager, that injects and steers stuff around (if you choose to turn off the sim’s traffic) as you run the sim. It’s not obvious, so the AIG Traffic download is here (so you need to install both these apps)
https://www.alpha-india.net/traffic-controller/
Once you’ve got through the set-up, you essentially pick airline flight plans and it automates it from there:
Here you can see it grabbing a China Eastern Airlines A319-100 skin for a model it downloaded.
Sometimes the source of a model or livery is not in a place that can be automatically downloaded, so the app opens a browser window and then asks for the location of the zip download.
The Traffic Manager runs when the sim runs, but only if you want to use its AI to move the planes around. It does seem to do a better job than MSFS, as things actually take off. I’ve seen the AI do some weird things, so I guess early days. If you use this form of traffic then you won’t get ATC heard from them, that’s on with MSFS Real World traffic on, and not this. That’s incorrect, the AI Traffic does have ATC in-game, which is really nice!
Here’s the Map overview of the running traffic at CYVR
You can see I have flight WestJet 180 to CYEG selected. Because it follows the real-life times/routes, you can check in the AI Manager (that imported the flight plan) that it’s correct:
(WJA 180 due to depart at 22:00 UTC, and here it is below)
Neat, they are all at the right gates as well…
It’ll be interesting if this still works with SU7 in a couple of days, of if Microsoft have fixed up the sim traffic.
