Hey guys, I'am 767 PIC Junkie..I just have a question, Anyone know what add-on or download I can get to have realistic airliners at the gates. I seen some people's screenshots and I see they are southwest airlines at the geates and some Unitied and such. Just wondering what can I get to have that realistic looking planes at my gates..- Eggy

[http://www.projectai.com/]You will also need Ttools to decompile and recompile AI files. You will also need AFCAD to customize airport operations. Do some research. Once you understand how the ai works and can spend some time to get things working right, the results can be very realistic.

Let me also add that, IMHO, once you get into the ProjectAI, ttools and AFCAD business, installing, tweaking, uninstalling packages that don't install properly, re-installing, reading documentation (not always accurate), creating airport overlays, testing, deleting, re-compiling, etc, you will endup doing all this for 90% of your FSim time and only 10% actually flying.I am not saying I don't recommend these add-ons, just be aware that you will enter a whole new area of the FSim hobby. In my experience, I find all these 3rd party tools to be great but still kind of experimental, a good starting point and a step in the right direction.I currently use ProjectAI and it is good, but it was not easy to get to the point where it would work OK. And it still doesn't -- for instance, my hometown airport KMIA now has almost no traffic (1 aircarft lands every 2-3 hours, even at 100% ATC setting); but my most frequently visited destinantion, KALT, now has so much traffic I simply cannot fly there anymore, a solid line of landing aircraft, all having to go around -- not fun at all.Good luck,kerke

You're right, once you get into this ai thing, it is like opening up a pandora's box and it will take up a very high percentage of your computer leisure time. But if you end up understanding the ai programming, it will make that 10% that you spend actually flying many times more realistic than before. You'll see proper traffic at the airports, planes parked at their real world gates, hear and see airborne traffic that is appropriate for wherever you might be flying, and wait in the conga line to takeoff during rush hour.Each package that PAI puts out is better than the last, they are obviously learning as they go. In the past, I might have spent several weeks working over an airline to get the flightplans to the point that I am happy with them. Things such as correcting the assigned altitudes, general errors, or shuffling and filling in dead spaces. Their latest airlines, such Southwest, Delta and Spirit have required very little editing upon my part.For everything that one might think is wrong with the ai, there is a reason and a solution. For KMIA, the main reason there is no traffic is because PAI has not released American Airlines yet. AAL is the primary user of Miami. United has a base there, but their presence is limited to that required to support a few flights out each day to points south of the equator. Once the AAL package is released, MIA will be livelier. Until then, KMIA traffic will be limited to already released airlines that service Miami as a destination. Or, you can take matters into your own hands and find alternatives, such as loading in the worldai2 or Stottlemire plans for AAL, which will sufficiently populate your Miami area. I am assuming you mean KATL as the airport that you can't land at. There are also solutions for that. At a minimum, open up a runway dedicated for arrivals only, add exit links to help landed ai planes find their way off the runway quicker. You can also go as far as adding a overlay to open two runways for arrival and splitting the traffic up. If all else fails, eliminate some flights. For piloting technique when inbound to an airport with lots of traffic, pay attention to the ATC calls, get an idea of the traffic around you, if you have TCAS, that helps immensely, make speed adjustments so that you don't get too close to the ai traffic you follow.You will get as much out as you are willing to put in. Unfortunately, there are too many variables to make the PAI autoinstallers work out completely satisfactory as a turnkey approach to adding airlines. Best results are still achieved if one has learned the ai workings and is willing to manually do it. Definitely, one should be forewarned of how consuming AI can be.

Eggy,try this onehttp://www.simmarket.com/online/mytraffic/index.htm