Hi all and Merry Christmas (again):

There are paid AI Traffic utilities out there for P3Dv4.5, but most of them seems not to be updated frequently regarding their aircraft models, schedules and general functionality.

That's why I've been looking for free AI Traffic utilities to know if anyone has any experience with them and could comment about this here. In general the most important aspects to comment on, would be: 1. General Functionality, 2. Easiness of installation and maintenance (including uninstall), 3. Degree of support and frequency of updates, 4. Performance in sim and P3D loading times, 5. Others.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers, Ed

 

Well, you've got this other thread where you ask about payware addons. Regardless of your specific question, I have the same answer for you, so I'n literally just going to copy-paste my answer from your other thread here:

 

I would highly discourage going the payware route, as it's exactly these payware addons that appear to be infrequently updated. Your very, VERY best bet is AIG's OCI. Easy to install and manage, and fairly regularly updated. I would say there are new and updated schedules coming out every week or so. Which doesn't mean that you won't have some rather outdated schedules, but, to be honest, if what you want is an addon where all airlines are updated every season, then it simply doesn't exist. Compiling the data and making sure it coincides with the right liveries for every single airline out there is impossible.

5 minutes ago, Benjamin J said:

Well, you've got this other thread where you ask about payware addons. Regardless of your specific question, I have the same answer for you, so I'n literally just going to copy-paste my answer from your other thread here

Thanks Benjamin, and sorry for the confusion.

Cheers, Ed

Yep, second what Benjamin said.

Hi Ed,

Yes, AIG-OCI is the way to go. Simple to install, use and update. Flightplans and models are constantly updated, as is the overall program itself.

Only downside is no GA traffic. I thought I would miss GA but I really don't.

AIGM-OCI.. best freeware of the decade!

Simbol

Any reason my post here was moderated please?!?

AIGOCI is the best, hands down.  No payware can compete imho.

1 hour ago, Twenty6 said:

Hi Ed,

Yes, AIG-OCI is the way to go. Simple to install, use and update. Flightplans and models are constantly updated, as is the overall program itself.

Only downside is no GA traffic. I thought I would miss GA but I really don't.

give us some more time, baselines for that have been already implemented in the last 0.9 update ;) And more stuff is comming next year regarding GA and other non-commercial traffic^^

1 hour ago, Kaiii3 said:

give us some more time, baselines for that have been already implemented in the last 0.9 update 😉 And more stuff is comming next year regarding GA and other non-commercial traffic^^

Good!. GA is an important piece of AI Traffic.

Cheers, Ed

Thanks for your answers. Now to me the picture is a lot more clear and help explain why the payware ones don't get frequent, if any, updates!.

Cheers, Ed

4 hours ago, Benjamin J said:

..with the right liveries for every single airline out there is impossible.

I just flew a flight out of KLAS and saw a very strange looking "Sun Country" 737. What was strange? It had the wrong colors and a large lowercase "t" on the tail. I never saw that before. I wrote down the tail number planning on looking into it later on to find out what the story was. Well, a quick Duckduckgo query on "PH-HXC" found this: 

AIG is the best!

Ditched Traffic Global for AIGM OCI. Best move I made. Easy to use, updates traffic timetables regularly, large selection of Airlines with up to date liveries. FPS friendly.

9 minutes ago, MDFlier said:

I just flew a flight out of KLAS and saw a very strange looking "Sun Country" 737. What was strange? It had the wrong colors and a large lowercase "t" on the tail. I never saw that before. I wrote down the tail number planning on looking into it later on to find out what the story was. Well, a quick Duckduckgo query on "PH-HXC" found this: 

AIG is the best!

Yep! The AIG OCI is the only player I know that does these highly specific repaints to match the exact airframes. Of course not for every airline out there, all the time, but with several individuals dedicated to churning out loads of freeware AI paints, something like this is actually possible to a degree. I have not seen this level of commitment from any payware AI developer out there, in part because it seems the AIG team actually ahs a larger team working on this than any payware team out there...

10 minutes ago, Benjamin J said:

Yep! The AIG OCI is the only player I know that does these highly specific repaints to match the exact airframes. Of course not for every airline out there, all the time, but with several individuals dedicated to churning out loads of freeware AI paints, something like this is actually possible to a degree. I have not seen this level of commitment from any payware AI developer out there, in part because it seems the AIG team actually ahs a larger team working on this than any payware team out there...

AIGTech: 2 Developers (1 Code, 1 Databases) and some internal testers

AIGDisptach (Flightplans): 10 people (+/- depending on the season)

AIGDispatch Testers: 5-6 People (depending on the season)

Many AIG-Members are actual doing more then just one thing, so basically we have around 13-17 people working constantly for AIG. But that is only the software and the flightplans. Adding to that we have constant support from Repainters to paint all the needed repaints and of cuase the model designer;) All around I would guess there are more then 30 peolple involed with all current OCI flightplans - all for free (with the payware option for FSPX)