Howdy Gang!

 

I am looking for an AI commercial addon package that would include all airline schedules/flight plans - even if on a pay per schedule update basis a couple times a year. Which package would you all recommend for this?

 

Thanks!

 

Dennis

I really enjoy Flight1's Ultimate Traffic 2. With this package the AI fly actual flight plans instead of just flying straight from departure airport to arrival airport. This causes you to have more interaction with the AI Traffic. Instead of just encountering a plane once in a while, you may find yourself actually flying the same route as some of the AI for a while. This means you have to watch for traffic a little more, which seems more realistic. I also find the interface easy to use. You can add aircraft models and repaints as well as flight plans. They offer updated schedules for purchase. Plus there is a freeware program that you can download to add flightplans from ttools type files as well as other options. That program is called UT2PowerPack. Plenty of AI packages out there, but these are just the reasons I enjoy UT2 so much.

I really enjoy Flight1's Ultimate Traffic 2. With this package the AI fly actual flight plans instead of just flying straight from departure airport to arrival airport. This causes you to have more interaction with the AI Traffic. Instead of just encountering a plane once in a while, you may find yourself actually flying the same route as some of the AI for a while. This means you have to watch for traffic a little more, which seems more realistic. I also find the interface easy to use. You can add aircraft models and repaints as well as flight plans. They offer updated schedules for purchase. Plus there is a freeware program that you can download to add flightplans from ttools type files as well as other options. That program is called UT2PowerPack. Plenty of AI packages out there, but these are just the reasons I enjoy UT2 so much.

What ATC do you use? Because I tried the UT2 demo and even with that, the default ATC was really struggling which caused a fair few issues. Plus, I can't use the default ATC for myself because I use SIDs and STARs and flight plans which I can't load into FSX.

I use the default ATC. But, I do use Editvoicepack and have added some community voice pack mods. I realize default ATC has it's issues, but I don't seem to notice any more issues than normal using UT2. I also use FlightSimCommander for flight planning which can import the flight plan into FSX. Using an IFR plan you can get your SIDs and STARs to be "recognized" so to speak. I also use AISmooth.

I use MyTrafficX with the live traffic subscription. I download a fresh world flight schedule before every flight.