Ultimate Traffic Live with ICAO change

[JoeFackel 760]

The common superlatives Publishers choose for their products are "questionable", of course. Think of Aerosofts "Mega Professional" Airports for expample. Whats next, "Mega Hyper Professional"?

But thats not the point here, this names only let me roll the eyes, nothing more. This are just names, you also won't buy a car just because it has a cool name. You read the technical data and descripton.

Edited January 23, 2019 by JoeFackel

[Peter Webber 339]

Guys, going off topic here. Semantics aside, myself and the OP are just asking for a product to supply AI traffic to FALE and FAOR. And unfortunately UT Live fails to provide that. Yes, it's a great product, if you happen to fly in supported areas where outdated liveries may be your only frustration. But any fix will be welcome to allow me to use this product again.

Edited January 23, 2019 by Peter Webber

[JoeFackel 760]

Take a look at the last version of UTL_FP, available in the forum of Alpha India Group. Since yesterday it has a new function to add new airports to UTL database, a great little tool with more upcoming features which is slowly growing to a poor mans "UTL Powerpack".

[Peter Webber 339]

1 hour ago, JoeFackel said:

Take a look at the last version of UTL_FP, available in the forum of Alpha India Group. Since yesterday it has a new function to add new airports to UTL database, a great little tool with more upcoming features which is slowly growing to a poor mans "UTL Powerpack".

Great, Will take a look. Never heard of this.

[SteveW 1,792]

4 hours ago, tooting said:

Meaning? 

UTL takes navdata from Aerosoft and plans the routes using airways and SID/STARS taking into account weather from a server.

Edited January 23, 2019 by SteveW

[Benjamin J 751]

So this is a common problem with UTLive. The other airport that is frequently complained about is OTHH. The good news is that YES this can be changed. The bad news is that it requires an ton of work. I have done it for OTHH and two or three other airports that didn't exist in UTL, and it works flawlessly. Even got VHHX to be full of life again. These are the steps that need to be taken:

- Edit some of UTLive's core files, notably the informaiton.xml (which stores basic airport information such as ICAO code, location etc) and the parkings.txt (contains informaiton about available parking spaces, or so I assume)

- Verify that your changes don't make UTL crash on startup and if all is good, whether the 'new' airport shows up in the UI of UTL.

- Import new schedules referencing the new ICAO for all airlines that use this airport. I use schedules from either AIG or UTT. I tend to take a look in AI Flight Planner first, and make any changes I deem necessary for it to work well within UTL. Then I use AIG's nice UTL_FP utility, which converts the txt-based flight plans from AIG and UTT to UTL's XML format. You then place that file in the addon schedules folder of UTL, and make sure it's active in UTL's UI.

- Deactivate the existing, default schedules in the UTL UI, and go ahead assigning aircraft to the new schedule. Note that when you use the traffic board within UTL's UI you will still see both old and new schedules, but if you did it correctly, the default schedules will not actually show up in the sim. I guess that's a bug that needs to be squashed at some point...

Again, I have followed this procedure to enable OTHH, URRP, ORNI and VHHX, with great success. Just be prepared for a lot of schedule swapping... More informaiton cna be found at the FLight1 UTL forum, where entire threads are dedicated to this stuff. Please have a look here: http://ultimatetraffic.flight1.net/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=17537&PN=1&title=new-airports It details how to add OTHH, but it works the same for any other airport.

[JoeFackel 760]

1 hour ago, Peter Webber said:

Great, Will take a look. Never heard of this.

You won't regret it, i use this tool nearly every day and Koala, the dev of this tool, is very open to ideas for new functions!

[Benjamin J 751]

10 hours ago, JoeFackel said:

Take a look at the last version of UTL_FP, available in the forum of Alpha India Group. Since yesterday it has a new function to add new airports to UTL database, a great little tool with more upcoming features which is slowly growing to a poor mans "UTL Powerpack".

I had no idea it incorporated this functionality! I'll take a look. Thanks for mentioning it Joe! My version is from some months ago, so perhaps it got added in the meantime.

[aktorsyl 93]

Thanks guys, awesome advice!

I've considered adding FAOR as a second airport (in addition to FAJS) - the problem is that both have the same IATA code (JNB) so not sure what UTL is going to do when it sees this, though.

 

[JoeFackel 760]

5 minutes ago, aktorsyl said:

Thanks guys, awesome advice!

I've considered adding FAOR as a second airport (in addition to FAJS) - the problem is that both have the same IATA code (JNB) so not sure what UTL is going to do when it sees this, though.

 

The schedules rely only on the ICAO so i guess it won't be a problem. You can give it a try, backup the xml before and you're safe.

 

[Benjamin J 751]

4 hours ago, aktorsyl said:

Thanks guys, awesome advice!

I've considered adding FAOR as a second airport (in addition to FAJS) - the problem is that both have the same IATA code (JNB) so not sure what UTL is going to do when it sees this, though.

 

This is not a problem in my experience. As Joe said, the schedules rely on ICAO code so everything should be fine.