hi can anyone tell me the differance between ga and airline traffic in fsx since new to this is one better than the other thx

In laymans terms, GA traffic are private planes such as Cessnas, and Airline traffic is just that - traffic from airlines, so bigger aircraft like 747s, etc.

The default AI traffic are a huge frame rate hit. I and a lot of people use WOAI, but they are FS9 format and not fsx, ( just a couple of minor things), there is a convereter, but you cant run FSX and FS9 traffic together or the FSX trraffic dont show up, really siily isnt it, I removed all the airlines out of the default bgl and only use the default GA traffic and a lot of WOAI, not unusual to have 90 planes being tracked by AISMOOTH.

GA stands for General Aviation. According to Wiki, civil aviation is divided into GA and SAT (Scheduled Air Transport). SAT is any commercial aircraft that is flying on a predefined schedule. So, I guess it would be possible to have a Piper Cub as a SAT if it flew a regularly scheduled commuter run (1 commuter at a time, but hey, knowing that a Cub can easily land on a golf course, and there's a golf course near home and one near work, and seeing the solid bumper-to-bumper traffic that almost always exists between work and home, well, it's a thought...) and you could have a 747 as GA if you were one of those oil princes of Dubai, and you used the thing to just go zipping sround the countryside...In default FSX, though, GA stands for all of the aircraft except the 737, 747, the CRJ-700 and the Airbus (basically the larger jets). Those heavy jets are considered airline traffic. Default FSX does not follow real-world flight schedules, so SAT is simulated only in the roughest sense.A third category of flights are Military. Default FSX does not generate military AI flights, although with Acceleration there are military aircraft. Still, FSX+Accel won't add those aircraft as free flight AI. Jeff ShylukSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

Do the payware addons like My Traffic and Ultimate traffic 2 have less of a hit rate on frames than the default FSX traffic? And if so anyone have a ballpark figure for the difference, ie 5 FPS more or something.RegardsPaul

MT- and UT traffic are supposed to perform faster than default traffic. At least in MT you can choose low-res textures for AI planes w/, or w/o complex animations. I haven

If there's an AVSIM Review for a payware AI product, the Reviewer should discuss frame rates. My experience is that generally the AI products do tend to cut the frame rates if you leave the sliders alone. However the savings is usually not all that big, maybe 5 fps max on my system. Your system may vary.FSX has the most "realistic" AI levels if traffic is set to 60% and no more. However, many if not most payware AI addons run most realistically at 80%-100% (up to a point). Third part AI models are less detailed than FSX models. FSX more or less uses user-flyable aircraft as AI models (with a few exceptions in Missions), and the user-flyable aircraft are detailed, which causes a frame rate hit. So you might see the same frame rates with default FSX traffic at 60% and payware traffic at 100%.Sometimes, though, running payware AI at 100% results in issues other than frame rates. Sometimes, you may get "constellations" of AI aircraft as FSX struggles to deal with air traffic control. FSX will allow several aircraft to form a cluster at waypoints or on approach. It's expecting one aircraft and has to deal with ten or more, sometimes the sky gets too crowded. Jeff ShylukSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM