Is there any FSX AI traffic radar that will show the only the boat traffic? I'd like to have one that would track the AI ships. Thanks, regards, Bob.

Since you are asking in the aircraft and panel forum, I'm guessing you are looking for a guage that does this - afraid I can't help you there, but I am working on a sample Windows Azure cloud site that will host some Silverlight SimConnect applications using my new Managed SimConnect SDK, and one of those is designed to show ALL AI objects and the user on a Bing map. Should hopefully have an alpha version of that online later this week (keep an eye on my blog :->).Timhttp://beatlesblog.spaces.live.com

Since you are asking in the aircraft and panel forum, I'm guessing you are looking for a guage that does this - afraid I can't help you there, but I am working on a sample Windows Azure cloud site that will host some Silverlight SimConnect applications using my new Managed SimConnect SDK, and one of those is designed to show ALL AI objects and the user on a Bing map. Should hopefully have an alpha version of that online later this week (keep an eye on my blog :->).Timhttp://beatlesblog.spaces.live.com

Hi Tim. Thanks. I looked at your blog but it's over my head technically. Will your application work with FSX and will it require NetFramework 2.0 or 3.5? Best regards, Bob.

Hi Bob,The app is Silverlight based, so it runs in your browser, but does require installing the Microsoft Silverlight runtime (the silverlight equiv of the Adobe Flash runtime). There are also a couple of other restrictions/requirements imposed by Silverlight (you have to edit the FSX SimConnect.XML file to open a port in the range 4502-4534, and you have to be running a Silverlight Policy Server - which I'll be providing a link to download from my site) - but once you've got it setup once, it should work for any Silverlight based client app (granted I'm probably the only one creating them yet, since I just released the new SDK that allows writting them about 2 weeks ago, but hopefully others will find them useful :-> ). Those unintelligible blog posts are the beginnings of documentation for the new SDK :-> Tim

Hi Bob,The app is Silverlight based, so it runs in your browser, but does require installing the Microsoft Silverlight runtime (the silverlight equiv of the Adobe Flash runtime). There are also a couple of other restrictions/requirements imposed by Silverlight (you have to edit the FSX SimConnect.XML file to open a port in the range 4502-4534, and you have to be running a Silverlight Policy Server - which I'll be providing a link to download from my site) - but once you've got it setup once, it should work for any Silverlight based client app (granted I'm probably the only one creating them yet, since I just released the new SDK that allows writting them about 2 weeks ago, but hopefully others will find them useful :-> ). Those unintelligible blog posts are the beginnings of documentation for the new SDK :-> Tim

Hi Tim. Thanks. I did not mean anything disrespectful about your blog. It is just way over my old head. I'll keep looking at your site. Best regards, Bob.

Bob, you can also un-CAB the fs9gps, make a copy of the entire folder, then begin editing the g500.xml to set it up for AI traffic display. One of the options is to show only "on ground AI traffic," IIRC... :(

Bob, you can also un-CAB the fs9gps, make a copy of the entire folder, then begin editing the g500.xml to set it up for AI traffic display. One of the options is to show only "on ground AI traffic," IIRC... :(

Hi Bill. Thanks. That sounds like a real winner. I'm off to try it now. Best regards, Bob.

Bob, you can also un-CAB the fs9gps, make a copy of the entire folder, then begin editing the g500.xml to set it up for AI traffic display. One of the options is to show only "on ground AI traffic," IIRC... :(

Hi Bill. I tried that but I am no XML expert. I did not see any reference to the option for "on ground AI traffic". I opened it in Notepad and searched for AI, ground, traffic and AI with no luck. I guess it's beyond my level of comprehension. Thanks and best regards, Bob.

Okay. Here's a better example then. Un-CAB the Radar.CAB file to a folder and then look in the radarscreen.xml file for these entries:

	6 (>L:VehicleObjectDetail)-------------------------------------------------------------- details omitted-------------------------------------				<CustomDrawParam id="ObjectDetailLayerVehicles" Name="ObjectDetailLayerVehicles">					<Value>(L:VehicleObjectDetail)</Value>				</CustomDrawParam>

Take note that the initial value for the L:VehicleObjectDetail variable is set to 6. According to the SDKs details, here is the list of flags available:

ObjectDetailLayerVehicles Int -1 = Default0 = Draw nothing0x1 = Track line0x2 = Ground vehicles0x4 = Airborne vehicles0x8 = Racing vehicles

An initial value of 6 equals a setting of "Ground vehicles" + "Airborne vehicles."To set the "radar" to display only "Ground vehicles," simply set the inital value equal to 2...

Hi Bill. Thanks. I did change the 6 to a 2 and recabbed it under a different name. I'll try it. Best regards, Bob.