Irritating Isssue With Airport Ground Traffic

[jbcallender 53]

I have a particular issue to which P3D seems to be particularly sensitive.  The issue is ground traffic driving into aircraft, causing a reset.  This morning, I spent 45 minutes getting a flight setup in P3Dv3 with the 737NGX, from Miami to St. Martin.  I get it all setup, start pushback, start engines and WHAM!  out of nowhere an airport truck drives right into me resetting everything back to default.  45 wasted minutes.  I find that on practically every flight, I to dodge an airport vehicle, be it a fuel truck, tug or pickup during taxi.  It seems that the sim generates them on purpose.  I don't why these autogen vehicles don't include awareness of taxiing aircraft.  P3D is very complex and this seems a rather obvious feature that should be in the sim.  I know, I can set it to ignore collisions and set airport traffic to zero, but that shouldn't be necessary, in my opinion.

 

Jeff C.  

[Kuragiman 227]

If you want to have high levels of airport traffic on you MUST turn off collision detection.   There is no way around this.   If you do not you are going to be running over traffic or finding situations where the traffic is holding position on the straight and narrow taxiway you are barreling down and he has no where to go nor do you.  It's just a weakness of the SIM.    It shouldn't be necessary but this is not a Ground Traffic AI simulator.  It's a flight simulator and FSX/P3D are both limited on how well they can support traffic on the ground.    Do you really need crash detection on?  I mean if you hit the ground you pretty much know if you screwed up or not.  You don't need the sim to tell you you screwed the pooch.  I personally fly with detection off and maximum airport traffic.  This is a HIGH recommendation if flying on VatSIM because you never know when someone is going to spawn into you so I just leave it off.      

[vgbaron 3,627]

Agreed Brian. I can see no useful purpose for leaving crash detection on. Considering the number of hidden objects one could run into, it would really have no use.

 

 

Vic