I don't see many actively flying planes in MSFS.  I was under the impression that FlightAware was part of this program.  Is there a control somewhere in MSFS that controls the FlightAware activity in the sim?

I do see some activity, but nothing like what I was expecting to see.

Stan

I’m seeing the AI flights without a problem. Try looking at the live flightaware map and comparing what you see.

I tested this for several hours last weekend using KATL.  Pulled up Flight Aware on 2nd PC to track which real flights were injected into the sim.

I found that while traffic is injected, it does so sporadically.  I'd say roughly 1 in 10 flights (both departing and arriving) were injected.  Sometimes I'd go stretches of 20 minutes or so without seeing anything.

Another thing I noticed is Live Traffic--when it did inject traffic--only injected arrivals and departures.  Meaning it didn't appear to inject flights that were flying over or around the airport.

Conversely, the artificial AI setting did inject flights (fictional landings, departures, and traffic over and around the airport).  However, using the artificial AI can drastically lower your frame rate.

52 minutes ago, spilok said:

I don't see many actively flying planes in MSFS.  I was under the impression that FlightAware was part of this program.  Is there a control somewhere in MSFS that controls the FlightAware activity in the sim?

I do see some activity, but nothing like what I was expecting to see.

Stan

I don’t know what your expectations are, but from my experience in the sim, all the flights I see on FlightAware are depicted in the sim.

These days the airports are not as busy as they used to be, so you should check FlightAware first, and see how is the movement on the airport you are sitting.

KATL is a bit busier these days, I would try rush hour and see what happens

15 minutes ago, 757FO said:

KATL is a bit busier these days, I would try rush hour and see what happens

That's the thing--even though I was testing on a Saturday evening, the real Flight Aware site was showing arrivals and departures roughly every couple minutes.  I'd watch for the injections into the sim, and the ones that did show up did so roughly 5-10 minutes later.  However, there were a whole slew of them that didn't.  

I could see and count roughly 9 arrivals and departures on Flight Aware's site that never injected into the sim for every 1 that did.

Dont see live traffic in EKCH, in offline mode there no ai traffic at all even when set to 100%, no boats, no ferries, theres cars but i turned them of, it just looks silly. The photogrammetry looks silly too, looks like a city that has been bombed for years when flying below 1000 feet.

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1 hour ago, ca_metal said:

I don’t know what your expectations are, but from my experience in the sim, all the flights I see on FlightAware are depicted in the sim.

These days the airports are not as busy as they used to be, so you should check FlightAware first, and see how is the movement on the airport you are sitting.

That makes sense.  I'll try some of the busier airports.

Stan

1 hour ago, ca_metal said:

I don’t know what your expectations are, but from my experience in the sim, all the flights I see on FlightAware are depicted in the sim.

These days the airports are not as busy as they used to be, so you should check FlightAware first, and see how is the movement on the airport you are sitting.

I tested this quite a lot the other day and the sim definitely is not 1 to 1 representation with real live traffic.  I was checking out the skies over LAX on Flight Radar 24 and the skies were buzzing with activity, not even close in the sim - maybe 5 planes tops.  This is probably to do with performance, I think we all know how much of a killer AI traffic is so this is probs a design choice.  Or at least that's what I'm putting it down too.

What's surprising is that some of these server issues are impacting things that you would assume to be lower bandwidth. Haven't heard of any major issues with scenery not loading. 

34 minutes ago, sidfadc said:

I tested this quite a lot the other day and the sim definitely is not 1 to 1 representation with real live traffic.  I was checking out the skies over LAX on Flight Radar 24 and the skies were buzzing with activity, not even close in the sim - maybe 5 planes tops.  This is probably to do with performance, I think we all know how much of a killer AI traffic is so this is probs a design choice.  Or at least that's what I'm putting it down too.

You have to check it with FlightAware. The sim isn’t using Flightradar24’s data.

1 hour ago, ca_metal said:

I don’t know what your expectations are, but from my experience in the sim, all the flights I see on FlightAware are depicted in the sim.

These days the airports are not as busy as they used to be, so you should check FlightAware first, and see how is the movement on the airport you are sitting.

Where did you see all flights depicted?

Airports are still fairly busy, nearly every location that I have checked is not showing all flights that are on FlightAware, in some cases it shows hardly any. I'm not alone in this, the MSFS forum is loaded with similar tales and it's most likely still teething issues with server load, the same as with other online related issues.

Ditto.  Sometimes I get live AI, sometimes I don't and when I do it's extremely sparse. Comparing flightAware around Philly and NYC to FS. It's a crowded mall on flightAware and a nearly abandoned K-Mart in game where it's either no AI or one or two stragglers shopping for bargins

I'm afraid it's clearly not working properly, or as you would expect.

Minimal traffic at best

You might see the odd approach and landing, but every single one I've seen has disappeared halfway down the runway, and on one occasion the same flight reappeared on approach again.

Imo it's not fully implemented, I just wish they would acknowledge that.

1 hour ago, ca_metal said:

You have to check it with FlightAware. The sim isn’t using Flightradar24’s data.

both services still tracking the same planes though so don't think it matters!